Amendments to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 923/2012
Article 2
Implementing Regulation (EU) No 923/2012 is amended as follows: (1) Article 2 is amended as follows: (a) point 85 is replaced by the following: ‘(85) “rotorcraft” means a power-driven, heavier-than-air aircraft that depends principally for its support in flight on the lift generated by up to two rotors;’; (b) the following points are inserted: ‘(85a) “helicopter” means a type of rotorcraft supported in flight chiefly by the reactions of the air on up to two power-driven rotors on substantially vertical axes; (85b) “vertical take-off and landing (VTOL)-capable aircraft (VCA)” means a power-driven, heavier-than-air aircraft, other than aeroplane or rotorcraft, capable of performing vertical take-off and landing by means of lift and thrust units used to provide lift during take-off and landing;’; (c) the following point is inserted: ‘(94a) “minimum fuel” means a term used to describe a situation in which an aircraft’s fuel/energy supply has reached a state where the flight is committed to land at a specific aerodrome and no additional delay can be accepted;’; (2) the Annex is amended in accordance with Annex II to this Regulation.