{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-overseas-territories-order-2007/schedule-8/paragraph-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-overseas-territories-order-2007/schedule-8/paragraph-27.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/3468",
  "legislation_title": "The Air Navigation (Overseas Territories) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-overseas-territories-order-2007",
  "path": "schedule/8/paragraph/27",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Flight within controlled airspace",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), an aircraft flying within Class B, Class C, Class D or Class E airspace—\n(a) at or above flight level 100 shall remain at least 1,500 metres horizontally and 1,000 feet vertically away from cloud and in a flight visibility of at least 8 km;\n(b) below flight level 100 shall remain at least 1,500 metres horizontally and 1,000 feet vertically away from cloud and in a flight visibility of at least 5 km.\n(2) An aircraft shall be deemed to have complied with paragraph (1)(b) if—\n(a) the aircraft is not a helicopter and it—\n(i) flies at or below 3,000 feet above mean sea level;\n(ii) flies at a speed which, according to its airspeed indicator, is 140 knots or less; and\n(iii) remains clear of cloud, with the surface in sight and in a flight visibility of at least 5 km; or\n(b) the aircraft is a helicopter and it—\n(i) flies at or below 3,000 feet above mean sea level; and\n(ii) remains clear of cloud, with the surface in sight and in a flight visibility of at least 1,500 metres.\n(3) Nothing in this rule shall apply to a helicopter that is air-taxiing or conducting manoeuvres in accordance with rule 6(i).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2011/237",
      "affecting_title": "The Air Navigation (Overseas Territories) (Amendment) Order 2011"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2011/237",
      "affecting_title": "The Air Navigation (Overseas Territories) (Amendment) Order 2011"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/3468/schedule/8/paragraph/27",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}