Paragraph 22 Choice of VFR or IFR

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

Sch. rule 5(2)(a) substituted by Rules of the Air (Third Amendment) 1994 reg.2(1)
Sch. rule 25(b)(ii) amended by Rules of the Air (Third Amendment) 1994 reg.2(2)
Sch. rule 25(b)(iii) added by Rules of the Air (Third Amendment) 1994 reg.2(2)
Sch. rule 40 revoked by Rules of the Air (Third Amendment) 1994 reg.2(3)
Sch. rule 44(2) substituted by Rules of the Air (Third Amendment) 1994 reg.2(4)
Sch. rule 51 revoked by Rules of the Air (Third Amendment) 1994 reg.2(5)
Sch, rule 1(1) (defns of apron and manoeuvring area) revoked by Rules of the Air 1993 reg.2(1)
Sch, rule 7 amended by Rules of the Air 1993 reg.2(2)

Subject to the provisions of rule 21 an aircraft shall always be flown in accordance with the Visual Flight Rules or the Instrument Flight Rules:

Provided that in the United Kingdom an aircraft flying at night:

(a)

outside a control zone shall be flown in accordance with the Instrument Flight Rules; or

(b)

in a control zone shall be flown in accordance with the Instrument Flight Rules unless it is flying on a special VFR flight.