Singapore legislation
Regulation 92
of Air Navigation (125 — Complex General Aviation) Regulations 2018
Regulation 92
Flight recorders — data-link recorders
Subregulation 1
A CGAC holder must ensure that every aircraft that it operates for complex general aviation operations, and which corresponds to one of the following descriptions, is equipped with a crash-protected flight recorder to record data‑link communications (called in this regulation a data‑link recorder):
an aircraft for which a Certificate of Airworthiness was first issued on or after 1 January 2016, and which utilises any of the data‑link communications applications specified by the Director‑General of Civil Aviation, and which is required to carry a cockpit voice recorder under regulation 91;
an aircraft —
for which the Certificate of Airworthiness is first issued before 1 January 2016;
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;
which is required to carry a cockpit voice recorder under regulation 91; and
which is not modified on or after 1 January 2016 to install any data link communications equipment which complies with —
the type design of the aircraft that is approved by the State of Design before 1 January 2016; or
a modification to the aircraft that is approved by the State of Design or the State of Registry before 1 January 2016.
Subregulation 2
A CGAC holder must ensure that the minimum recording duration of the data‑link communications required for an aircraft described in paragraph (1)(a) or (b) is equal to the minimum recording duration of the cockpit voice recorder.
Subregulation 3
A CGAC holder must ensure that the recordings of the data‑link recorder can be correlated to the recorded cockpit audio.