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Paragraph 35 Flight plan and air traffic control clearance

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

Before an aircraft either takes off from a point within any controlled airspace or otherwise flies within any controlled airspace the pilot-in-command of the aircraft shall—

(a)

send or transmit a flight plan complying with paragraph (2) to the appropriate air traffic control unit; and

(b)

obtain an air traffic control clearance based on that flight plan.

(2)

The flight plan shall—

(a)

contain such particulars of the intended flight as may be necessary to enable the air traffic control unit to issue an air traffic control clearance and for search and rescue purposes; and

(b)

for a flight within Territory reduced vertical separation minimum airspace, also state whether or not the aircraft is equipped with height keeping systems as required by articles 51 and 52 of this Order.

(3)

Unless he has requested the appropriate air traffic control unit to cancel his flight plan, the pilot-in-command of the aircraft shall forthwith inform that unit when the aircraft lands within or leaves the controlled airspace.