Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1988 NO. 158 CIVIL AVIATION REGULATIONS - REG 202

202. (1) A captive balloon or a kite, when flown at a height exceeding 196
feet above the ground, or any altitude, if it is less than 6 kilometres from
an aerodrome, a control area or a control zone, shall display a white light
placed 4 metres vertically above a red light, these lights being visible so
far as practicable in all directions at a distance of at least 4,000 metres.
The white light shall be placed at least 5 and at most 10 metres below the
basket, or, if there is no basket, below the lowest part of the balloon or
kite.

(2) In addition to the lights prescribed by subregulation (1), there shall be
displayed from the mooring cable, at intervals of 300 metres measured from the
group of 2 lights specified in subregulation (1), similar groups of 2 lights,
white and red. If the lowest group of lights is obscured by clouds, one
additional group shall be displayed below the cloud base.

(3) The position of the object to which the balloon or kite is moored on the
ground shall be marked by a group of 3 flashing lights arranged on a
horizontal plane at the apexes of a triangle approximately equilateral and
measuring at least 25 metres on each side. The side of this triangle,
perpendicular to the horizontal projection of the cable, shall be delimited by
2 red lights; the third light shall be a green light placed opposite the
direction of the cable.

(4) By day, the mooring cable of a captive balloon shall have attached to it
at intervals of not more than 200 metres measured from the basket, or, if
there is no basket, from the lowest part of the balloon, tubular streamers not
less than 400 millimetres in diameter and 2 metres long, and marked with
alternate bands of white and red, 500 millimetres in width.

(5) By day, the mooring cable of a kite shall be marked:

   (a)  in the manner specified in subregulation (4) for the mooring cable of
        a captive balloon; or

   (b)  by streamers of stout paper at intervals of 100 metres measured from
        the lowest part of the kite, the streamers being at least 800
        millimetres long and at least 300 millimetres wide at their widest
        part and marked with alternate bands 100 millimetres in width, white
        and red.

(6) Notwithstanding anything contained in this regulation, the Authority may
authorise captive balloons and kites used for meteorological observations
which, owing to their insufficient static lift, cannot display the lights and
signals prescribed by this regulation, to be flown, but only over areas which
are notified as danger areas, and in every case the position of the object to
which the balloon or kite is moored to the ground shall be marked as provided
by subregulation (3).