Civil Aviation Act, 2009 (Act No. 13 of 2009)RegulationsCivil Aviation Regulations, 2011Part 61 : Pilot LicensingSubpart 1 : General61.01.8 Logging of flight time |
| (1) | The holder of a pilot licence must maintain in a pilot logbook a record of all his or her flight time, instrument time, FSTD time and instruction time. Where electronic logbooks are used, the electronic data must be printed on paper at least every 90 days and the printed pages filed sequentially in a binder. |
| (2) | The form of and information to be contained in the logbook, referred to in subregulation (1), and the manner in which such logbook must be maintained are as prescribed in Appendix A to Document SA-CATS 61. |
| (3) | Entries in pilot logbooks must be made within the following periods after the completion of the flight to be recorded— |
| (a) | seven days in the case of flights not for hire and reward (Part 91 operations), flight training, and domestic commercial air transport operations; |
| (b) | 14 days in the case of international commercial air transport operations; |
| (c) | 48 hours after return to base in the case where a pilot is engaged in flight operations away from the base where the pilot logbook is normally kept. |
| (4) | All pilots must retain their pilot logbooks for at least 60 months calculated from the date they no longer hold a valid pilot licence. |
| (5) | If the holder of a pilot licence carries out a number of flights upon the same day and the interval between successive flights does not exceed one hundred and eighty minutes, such series of flights may be recorded as a single entry, provided that in the case of a cross-country flight the route and intermediate stops must be recorded. |
| (6) | The holder of a pilot licence must make the logbook available for inspection upon a reasonable request by the Director, an authorised officer, inspector or authorised person. |
Pilot-in-command time
| (7) | The holder of a valid pilot licence must log as PIC time only that flight time during which he or she is— |
| (a) | the designated PIC of the aircraft; this shall be the case also if the designated PIC provides command supervision to another pilot in terms of paragraph (b) below; |
| (b) | PICUS, provided there is no intervention by supervising PIC and the word "PICUS" is indicated in the remarks column with an entry certified by a supervising PIC. PICUS may, irrespective of licence held, fly an aircraft from either a left hand or right-hand seat, provided that a pilot is appropriately rated and an aircraft is either certified as airworthy for multi-pilot operations or required to be operated by two pilots in terms of Part 121, 127, or 135. |
[Regulation 61.01.8(7)(b) substituted by regulation 11(e) of Notice No. R.1503, GG45491, dated 16 November 2021 (Twenty-First Amendment of the Civil Aviation Regulations, 2021)]
| (c) | carrying out a student solo flight and is the sole occupant of the aircraft (except in the case of an airship requiring an additional crew member) and "SOLO" is indicated in the remarks column; |
| (d) | giving flight instruction while occupying a pilot seat with access to the controls, provided that the time must also be logged as instructor time; |
| (e) | a SPIC and acting as PIC under the supervision of an appropriately rated flight instructor during flight training on an approved course of CPL or CPLIIR training and for a successful CPL or IR initial flight test: Provided that— |
| (i) | the SPIC time shall not be credited as PIC time if the Flight Instructor had reason to influence or control any part of the flight; |
| (ii) | a ground debriefing by the Flight Instructor does not affect the crediting as PIC. |
| (iii) | SPIC time will be logged in the PIC column with 'SPIC' indicated in the remarks' column and certified by the supervising Flight Instructor. |
[Regulation 61.01.8(7)(e) substituted by regulation 5(a) of Notice No. R. 984, GG 41915, dated 21 September 2018 (Nineteenth Amendment of the Civil Aviation Regulations, 2018)]
Co-pilot time
| (8) | Any appropriately rated pilot occupying a pilot seat as co-pilot of an aircraft requiring more than one pilot under the type certification of the aircraft, or as prescribed by the regulations under which the flight is conducted, must log the flight time as co-pilot. |
Safety pilot time
| (9) | Any pilot acting as safety pilot in terms of regulation 91.07.32, occupying a pilot seat, with an appropriate valid category, class or type rating, may log the flight as co-pilot. The flight time so acquired may not be credited towards the experience requirements for a higher grade pilot licence or a rating. The remarks column must be marked "SAFETY PILOT". |
Dual flight instruction time
| (10) | Flight time during which the holder of a pilot licence is receiving dual instruction must be logged as dual flight time, and must include a record of the air exercises undertaken. |
Instrument flight time
| (11) | The pilot controlling an aircraft under actual or simulated IMC solely by reference to instruments and without external reference points must log that time as instrument flight time. |
| (12) | An instructor conducting instrument flight training or an examiner conducting a skill or proficiency instrument test must log as instrument flight time all flight time in actual (not simulated) IMC. |
Flight time as designated flight examiner
| (13) | When acting as flight examiner and occupying a pilot seat, whether as the designated PIC or not, and provided the examiner holds the appropriate valid class or type rating, the flight time may be logged as PIC time and furthermore, as flight instructor time, in the capacity of examiner, if the examiner holds the appropriate valid flight instructor rating. |
| (14) | When a flight examiner administers a skills test or proficiency check from a seat, other than a pilot seat, he or she may log the flight time as co-pilot time, provided he or she holds the appropriate valid rating for the particular aircraft, but may not log the time as flight instructor time. |
| (15) | Flight time accumulated as a DFE must be marked in the remarks column of the pilot's logbook as DFE time. |
| (16) | Flight time accumulated as Official Flight Examiner (OFE) or Authorised Officer/Person (AO) must be marked in the remarks column of the pilot's logbook as OFE or AO. |
Flight simulation time
| (17) | All time accumulated during training on a FSTD approved for instrument flight training must be logged as instrument time, but must be clearly recorded as flight simulation time and must be certified by the instructor in the pilot's logbook. |
| (18) | Instructors and examiners must keep a record of all instruction and examiner time carried out on an approved FSTD and log the time as FSTD time, provided that they are rated on the simulated aircraft type, and are holders of an FSTD instructor authorisation issued in terms of this Part. |