{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-overseas-territories-order-2013/schedule-4/paragraph-35",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-overseas-territories-order-2013/schedule-4/paragraph-35.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/2870",
  "legislation_title": "The Air Navigation (Overseas Territories) Order 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-overseas-territories-order-2013",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/35",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "35",
  "heading": "Flight plan and air traffic control clearance",
  "text": "(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 must—\n(a) send or transmit a flight plan complying with paragraph (2) to the appropriate air traffic control unit; and\n(b) obtain an air traffic control clearance based on that flight plan.\n(2) The flight plan must—\n(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\n(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 article 92 or 93 of this Order.\n(3) Unless the pilot in command of the aircraft has requested the appropriate air traffic control unit to cancel the flight plan, that pilot must inform that unit immediately the aircraft lands within or leaves the controlled airspace.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 4 rule 35(2)(b) substituted (22.7.2021) by The Air Navigation (Overseas Territories) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/755), arts. 1(1), 23(14)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 35 in force at 1.1.2014, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/2870/schedule/4/paragraph/35",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:35:08.016872+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}