The Civil Aviation (Aerial Work-General Operations) Regulations, 2025
2. Interpretation
2. Interpretation
In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—“acceptable” means the Authority has reviewed the method, procedure or policy and has neither objected to nor approved its proposed use or implementation;“aerobatic flight” means manoeuvres intentionally performed by an aircraft involving an abrupt change in its attitude, an abnormal attitude, or an abnormal variation in speed not necessary for normal flight;“aerial survey” means a method of collecting geomatics or other imagery by using airplanes, helicopters, UAVs, balloons or other aerial methods;“aerial work” means an aircraft operation in which an aircraft is used for specialised services including, but not limited to, agriculture, construction, photography, surveying, observation and patrol, search and rescue, and aerial advertisement;“aerodrome” means a defined area on land or water (including any buildings, installations and equipment) used or intended to be used either wholly or in part for the arrival, departure and surface movement of an aircraft;“aeroplane” means a power-driven heavier-than-air aircraft, deriving its lift in flight chiefly from aerodynamic reactions on surfaces which remain fixed under given conditions of flight;“aircraft” means any machine that can derive support in the atmosphere from the reactions of the air, other than the reactions of the air against the earth’s surface;“air traffic control” means a service that promotes the safe, orderly, and expeditious flow of air traffic at aerodromes and during the approach, departure, and en route environments;“appliance” means any instrument, mechanism, equipment, part, apparatus, appurtenance, or accessory, including communications equipment, that is used or intended to be used in operating or controlling an aircraft in flight, is installed in or attached to the aircraft, and is not part of an airframe, power plant, or propeller;“article” means any item, including but not limited to, an aircraft, airframe, aircraft engine, propeller, appliance, accessory, assembly, subassembly, system, subsystem, component, unit, product, or part;“air traffic control facility” means a building holding the persons and equipment responsible for providing air traffic control services and includes airport tower, approach control, area control;“Authority” means the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority;“authorization” entitles an Operator, owner or Pilot-in-command to undertake the authorised operations. Authorizations can take the form of specific approvals, Approvals or acceptances;“banner” means an advertising medium supported by a temporary framework attached externally to the aircraft and towed behind the aircraft;“critical engine” means the engine whose failure would most adversely affect the performance or handling qualities of an aircraft;“drop zone” means any pre-determined area upon which parachutists or objects land after making an intentional parachute jump or drop;“drug trafficking” means carriage by an aircraft of narcotic drugs, marijuana and other depressant or stimulant drugs or substances;“exhibition of flying” means any flying activity deliberately performed for the purpose of providing an exhibition or entertainment at an advertisement open to the public;“facility” means a physical plant, including land, buildings, and equipment, which provides the means for the performance of maintenance, preventive maintenance, or modifications of any article;“flight crewmember” means a licensed crewmember charged with duties essential to the operation of an aircraft during flight time;“flight time” means the total time from the moment an aircraft first moves under its own power for the purpose of taking off until the moment it comes to rest at the end of the flight;“flight training” means training, other than ground training, received from an authorised instructor in flight in an aircraft;“freefall” means the portion of a parachute jump or drop between aircraft exit and parachute deployment in which the parachute is activated manually by the parachutist at the parachutist's discretion or automatically, or, in the case of an object, is activated automatically;“glider” means a non-power-driven heavier-than-air aircraft, deriving its lift in flight chiefly from aerodynamic reactions on surfaces, which remain fixed under given conditions of flight;“inspection” means the examination of an aircraft or aircraft component to establish conformity with a standard approved by the Authority;“helicopter” means a heavier-than-air aircraft supported in flight chiefly by the reactions of the air on one or more power-driven rotors on substantially vertical axis;“main parachute” means a parachute worn as the primary parachute used or intended to be used in conjunction with a reserve parachute;“night” means the time between fifteen minutes after sunset and fifteen minutes before sunrise, sunrise and sunset being determined at surface level, and includes any time between sunset and sunrise when an unlighted aircraft or other unlighted prominent object cannot clearly be seen at a distance of 4,572 metres;“operator” means a person, organization or enterprise engaged in or offering to engage in an aircraft operation;“parachute drop” means the descent of an object to the surface from an aircraft in flight when a parachute is used or intended to be used during all or part of that descent;“parachute jump” means a parachute operation that involves the descent of one or more persons to the surface from an aircraft in flight when an aircraft is used or intended to be used during all or part of that descent;“parachute operation” means the performance of all activity for the purpose of, or in support of, a parachute jump or a parachute drop, the parachute operation can involve, but is not limited to, the following persons-parachutist, parachutist in command and passenger in tandem parachute operations, drop zone or owner or operator, jump master, certificated parachute rigger, or pilot;“parachute rigger” means a person who is authorised to pack, maintain or alter any parachute in conformity with manufacturer’s instructions;“parachutist” means a person who intends to exit an aircraft while in flight using a single-harness, dual parachute system to descend to the surface;“passenger parachutist” means a person who boards an aircraft, acting as other than the parachutist in command of a tandem parachute operation, with the intent of exiting the aircraft while in-flight using the forward harness of a dual harness tandem parachute system to descend to the surface;“pilot-in-command” means the pilot responsible for the operation and safety of the aircraft during flight time;“power plant” means an engine that is used or intended to be used for propelling aircraft including turbo superchargers, appurtenances, and accessories necessary for its functioning, but does not include propellers;“propeller” means a device for propelling an aircraft that has blades on a power plant driven shaft and that, when rotated, produces by its action on the air, a thrust approximately perpendicular to its plane of rotation and includes control components normally supplied by its manufacturer, but does not include main and auxiliary rotors or rotating airfoils of power plants;“rotorcraft” means a power-driven heavier-than-air aircraft supported in flight by the reactions of the air on one or more rotors;“rotorcraft load combinations” means configurations for external- loads carried by rotorcraft—(a)Class A – external-load fixed to the rotorcraft, cannot be jettisoned, and does not extend below the landing gear, used to transport cargo;(b)Class B – external-load suspended from the rotorcraft, which can be jettisoned, and is transported free of land or water during rotorcraft operations;(c)Class C – external-load suspended from the rotorcraft, which can be jettisoned, but remains in contact with land or water during rotorcraft operation;(d)Class D – external-load suspended from the rotorcraft for the carriage of persons;“special certificate of airworthiness” means a certificate issued to an aircraft which does not qualify for an issue of a standard certificate of airworthiness;“standard” means an object, artefact, tool, test equipment, system, or experiment that stores, embodies, or otherwise provides a physical quantity, which serves as the basis for measurement of the quantity. It also includes a document describing the operations and processes that shall be performed in order for a particular end to be achieved;“standard certificate of airworthiness” means a certificate of airworthiness issued by the Authority on the basis of satisfactory evidence that the aircraft complies with the design aspects of the appropriate airworthiness requirements;“State of Design” means the Contracting State which approved the original type certificate and any subsequent supplemental type certificates for an aircraft, or which approved the design of an aircraft component or appliance;“substance” means alcohol, sedatives, hypnotics, anxiolytics, hallucinogens, opioids, cannabis, inhalants, central nervous system stimulants such as cocaine, amphetamines, and similarly acting sympathomimetic, phencyclidine or similarly acting arylcyclohexylamines, and other psychoactive drugs and chemicals;“tandem parachute operation” means a parachute operation in which more than one person simultaneously uses the same tandem parachute system while descending to the surface from an aircraft in flight;“tandem parachute system” means the combination of a main parachute, approved reserve parachute, and approved harness and dual parachute container, and a separate approved forward harness for a passenger parachutist which parachute system shall have an operational automatic activation device installed; and“training programme” means a programme that consists of courses, courseware, facilities, flight training equipment, and personnel necessary to accomplish a specific training objective which shall include a core curriculum and a specialty curriculum.Source: Kenya Law