CAT.IDE.H.191 Lightweight flight
recorder
Regulation
(EU) 2019/1387
(a) Turbine-engined helicopters with an MCTOM
of 2 250 kg or more shall be equipped with a
flight recorder if all of the following conditions are met:
(1) they are not within the scope of point CAT.IDE.H.190(a);
(2) they are first issued with an individual
CofA on or after 5 September 2022.
(b) The flight recorder shall record, by means
of flight data or images, information that is sufficient to determine the
flight path and aircraft speed.
(c) The flight recorder shall be capable of
retaining the flight data and the images recorded during at least the
preceding 5 hours.
(d) The flight recorder shall automatically
start to record prior to the helicopter being capable of moving under its own
power and shall stop automatically after the helicopter is no longer capable
of moving under its own power.
(e) If the flight recorder records images or
audio of the flight crew compartment, then a function shall be provided which
can be operated by the commander and which modifies image and audio recordings
made before the operation of that function, so that those recordings cannot be
retrieved using normal replay or copying techniques.
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