S.L. 499.9 Art. 36Use of flight data recorders and preservation of records.

(1) On any flight on which a flight data recorder is required by paragraph 4(4), 4(5), 4(6) and 4(7) of the Fifth

Schedule to be carried in an aeroplane, it shall always be in use from the beginning of the take-off run to the end of the landing run.

(2) The operator of the aeroplane shall at all times, subject to the provisions of article 59, preserve -

(a) the last twenty-five hours of recording made by any flight data recorder required by or under this Order to be carried in an aeroplane; and

(b) a record of not less than one representative flight, that is to say, a recording of a flight made within the last twelve months which includes a take-off, climb, cruise, descent, approach to landing, and landing, together with a means of identifying the record with the flight to which it relates, and shall preserve such records for such period as the Director General may in a particular case direct.