On 24/05/2013,
you requested for the version in force on 24/05/2013
incorporating all amendments published on or before 24/05/2013.
The closest version currently available is that of 25/03/1992.
18.
—(1) An aircraft shall not fly unless it carries a flight crew of the number and description required by the law of the country in which it is registered.
(2) A Singapore aircraft shall carry a flight crew adequate in number and description to ensure the safety of the aircraft and of at least the number and description specified in the Certificate of Airworthiness issued or rendered valid under this Order or, if no Certificate of Airworthiness is required under this Order to be in force, the Certificate of Airworthiness, if any, last in force under this Order, in respect of that aircraft.
(3) A Singapore aircraft flying for the purpose of public transport shall carry not less than the number of flight crew members required by the certification of the aircraft type.
[S 49/92 wef 01/02/1992]
(3A) Subject to sub-paragraph (3B), a Singapore aircraft flying for the purpose of public transport in circumstances where the aircraft commander is required to comply with the Instrument Flight Rules and having a maximum total weight authorised of 5,700 kg or less and powered by —
(a)
one or more turbine jets;
(b)
one or more turbine propeller engines and provided with a means of pressurising the personnel compartment;
(c)
two or more turbine propeller engines and certificated to carry more than 9 passengers;
(d)
two or more turbine propeller engines and certificated to carry less than 10 passengers and not provided with a means of pressurising the personnel compartments;
(e)
two or more piston engines,
shall carry not less than two pilots as members of the flight crew.
[S 60/92 Corrig]
[S 49/92 wef 01/02/1992]
(3B) A Singapore aircraft described in sub-paragraph (3A)(d) or (e) shall not be required to carry two pilots if it is equipped with an autopilot which has been approved by the chief executive officer and which is serviceable on take-off or if before take-off the approved autopilot is found to be unserviceable and the aircraft flies in accordance with arrangements approved by the chief executive officer.
[S 60/92 Corrig]
[S 49/92 wef 01/02/1992]
(4) A Singapore aircraft engaged on a flight for the purpose of public transport shall carry —
(a)
a flight navigator as a member of the flight crew; or
(b)
navigational equipment approved by the chief executive officer and used in accordance with any conditions subject to which that approval may have been given,
if on the route or any diversion therefrom, being a route or diversion planned before take-off, the aircraft is intended to be more than 500 nautical miles from the point of take-off measured along the route to be flown, and to pass over part of an area specified in the Fifteenth Schedule.
(5) The flight navigator referred to in sub-paragraph (4) shall be carried in addition to any person who is carried in accordance with this paragraph to perform other duties.
(6) A Singapore aircraft which is required by paragraph 13 to be equipped with radio communication equipment shall carry a flight radio operator as a member of the flight crew, who, if he is required to operate radiotelegraph apparatus, shall be carried in addition to any other person who is carried in accordance with this paragraph to perform other duties.
(7) If it appears to him to be expedient to do so in the interests of safety, the Minister may direct any particular operator of any Singapore aircraft that the aircraft operated by him or any such aircraft shall not fly in such circumstances as the Minister may specify unless they carry in addition to the flight crew required to be carried therein by sub-paragraphs (1) to (6) such additional persons as members of the flight crew as he may specify in the direction.
(8) (a) This paragraph shall apply to any flight for the purpose of public transport by a Singapore aircraft —
(i)
on which is carried 20 or more passengers; or
(ii)
which may, in accordance with its certificate of airworthiness, carry more than 35 passengers and on which at least one passenger is carried.
(b)
The crew of an aircraft on a flight to which this paragraph applies shall include cabin attendants.
[S 384/2000 wef 31/08/2000]
(c)
On a flight to which this paragraph applies, there shall be carried not less than one cabin attendant for every 50, or fraction of 50 passenger seats installed in the aircraft except that the number of cabin attendants calculated in accordance with this sub-paragraph need not be carried where the chief executive officer has granted written permission to the operator to carry a lesser number on that flight and the operator carries the number specified in that permission and complies with any other terms and conditions subject to which such permission is granted.
[S 384/2000 wef 31/08/2000]
(9) The Minister may, if it appears to him to be expedient to do so in the interests of safety, direct any particular operator of any Singapore aircraft that the aircraft operated by him or any such aircraft shall not fly in such circumstances as the Minister may specify unless those aircraft carry in addition to the cabin attendants required to be carried therein by sub-paragraph (8) such additional persons as cabin attendants as he may specify in the direction.
[S 384/2000 wef 31/08/2000]