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Section 15: (1) Except as provided in subrule
Civil Aviation (Air Navigation) Regulations
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(2) of this Rule, an airship while flying at night shall display the following steady lights (a) a white light of at least five candela showing through angles of 110° from dead ahead to each side in the horizontal plane;
(b) a green light of at least five candela showing to the starboard side through an angle of 110° from dead ahead in the horizontal plane;
(c) a red light of at least five candela showing to the port side through an angle of 110° from dead ahead in the horizontal plane;
(cl) a white light of at least five candela showing through angles of 70° from dead astern to each side in the horizontal plane.
(2) An airship while flying at night shall display, if it is not under command, or has voluntarily stopped its engines, or is being towed, the following steady lights-
(a) the white lights referred to in subna'e (l)fa) and (d) of this Rule;
(bi two red lights, each of a least five candela and showing in all directions suspended belov. the control car so that one is a: least 4 metres above the other and at least S metres '.-.-low the control car; and
(c) It the airship is making way but not otherwise, the green and red lights referred to in paragraph (!)(/?) and (c) of this Rule.
(3) An airship while picking up its moorings, notwithstanding that it is not under command shall display only the lights specified in subrule (1) of this Rule.
(4) An airship, while moored within Uganda by night, shall display the following lights-
(a) when moored to a mooring mast, at or near the rear a white lisht of at least five candela showins in all directions;
(b) when moored otherwise than to a mooring mast-
(i) a white light of at least five candela showing through angles of 110° from dead ahead to each side in the horizontalplane;
(ii) a white light of at least five candela showing through angles of 70° from dead astern to each'
side in the horizontal plane.
(5) An airship while flying by day, if it is not under command or has voluntarily stopped its engines, or is being towed shall display two black balls suspended below the control car so that one is at I- a-;t 4 metres above the other and at least 8 metres below the control car.
(6) For the purposes of this Rule-
(a) an airship shall be deemed not to be under command when it is unable to execute manoeuvre which it may be required to execute by or under these Rules.
(b) an airship shall be deemed to be making way when it is not moored and is in motion relative to the air.
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