Singapore legislation
Regulation 98
of Air Navigation (91 — General Operating Rules) Regulations 2018
Regulation 98
Flight recorders — data link recorders
Subregulation 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) —
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
for a helicopter —
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; 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 helicopter that is approved by the State of Design before 1 January 2016; or
a modification to the helicopter that is approved by the State of Design or the State of Registry before 1 January 2016.
Subregulation 2
The operator mentioned in paragraph (1) must ensure that —
the minimum recording duration of the data link recorder is at least equal to the minimum recording duration of the cockpit voice recorder; and
the recordings of the data link recorder can be correlated to the recorded cockpit audio.