Section 131: PIC aeronautical experience for small aircraft

An operator shall ensure that (a) a commercial pilot licence holder does not operate as a pilot-in command certificated for single pilot operations unless- (i) when conducting passenger carrying operations under visual flight rules outside a radius of 50 nm from an aerodrome of departure, the pilot has a minimum of five hundred hours total flight time on aeroplanes or holds a valid instrument rating; or (ii) when operating a multi-engine type under instrument flight rules, the pilot has a minimum of seven hundred hours total flight time on aeroplanes which includes four hundred hours as PIC of which one hundred hours have been under IFR including forty hours multi-engine operation; and (iii) the four hundred hours referred to in paragraph (ii) are substituted by hours operating as co-pilot on the basis that 2 hours co-pilot is equivalent to one hour as PIC provided that those hours were gained within an established multi-pilot crew system specified in the operations manual in accordance with the Civil Aviation (Air Operator Certification and Administration) Regulations, 2022; (b) in addition to paragraph (a)(ii), when operating under IFR as a single pilot, the requirements prescribed in regulation 157 are satisfied; and (c) in multi-pilot crew operations, in addition to subparagraph (a), and prior to the pilot operating as PIC, the PIC course specified in the operations manual specified in accordance with the Civil Aviation (Air Operator Certification and Administration) Regulations, 2022 is completed.