Flight recorders — data link recorders
98.—(1)  Where a Singapore registered helicopter is required to carry a cockpit voice recorder in accordance with regulation 97, the operator must ensure that the helicopter is equipped with a crash‑protected flight recorder that records data link communications messages (called in this regulation a data link recorder) —
(a)for a helicopter with a Certificate of Airworthiness that is first issued on or after 1 January 2016, if the helicopter utilises any of the data link communications applications specified by the Director‑General of Civil Aviation; or
(b)for a helicopter —
(i)for which the Certificate of Airworthiness is first issued before 1 January 2016;
(ii)which is modified on or after 1 January 2016 to install and utilise any of the data link communications applications specified by the Director-General of Civil Aviation; and
(iii)which is not modified on or after 1 January 2016 to install any data link communications equipment which complies with —
(A)the type design of the helicopter that is approved by the State of Design before 1 January 2016; or
(B)a modification to the helicopter that is approved by the State of Design or the State of Registry before 1 January 2016.
[S 937/2020 wef 05/11/2020]
[S 768/2018 wef 24/11/2018]
(2)  The operator mentioned in paragraph (1) must ensure that —
(a)the minimum recording duration of the data link recorder is at least equal to the minimum recording duration of the cockpit voice recorder; and
(b)the recordings of the data link recorder can be correlated to the recorded cockpit audio.