The Air Navigation (General) (Amendment) Regulations 1997

• Citation: S.I. 1997/881
• Sections: 2

Section 1

These Regulations may be cited as the Air Navigation (General) (Amendment) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 27th March 1997.

Section 2

The Air Navigation (General) Regulations 1993 shall be amended as follows:

(1) After regulation 18(1) there shall be inserted the following:

(1A) For the purposes of article 42(2) of the Air Navigation (No. 2) Order 1995, the following height keeping performance capability is hereby prescribed, that is to say, a capability to ensure that:

(a) altimetry system error shall be in compliance with paragraph 2.1.1(2) of Document 7030/4-NAT Part 1 Rules of the Air, Air Traffic Services and Search and Rescue ( ICAO Regional Procedures Fourth Edition—1987); and

(b)

(i) in respect of aircraft first registered in a Contracting State on or after 1st January 1997 altitude can be automatically controlled within a tolerance band of +/−65 feet;

(ii) in respect of aircraft first registered in a Contracting State before 1st January 1997 altitude can be automatically controlled within a tolerance band of +/−130 feet.

(2) In regulation 18(2), for “from flight level 275 to flight level 400” there shall be substituted “from flight level 285 to flight level 420”.