The Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (Wales Rally GB) Regulations 2017

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CitationSI 2017/945
Year2017

2017No. 945

CIVIL AVIATION

The Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (Wales Rally GB) Regulations 2017

Made25thSeptember2017

Coming into force27thOctober2017

The Secretary of State has decided that it is necessary in the public interest to restrict flying in certain parts of Wales and England by reason of the expected gathering of a large number of persons and multiple aircraft movements during the Wales Rally GB 2017.

The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by article 239 of the Air Navigation Order 2016( 1).

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (Wales Rally GB) Regulations 2017 and come into force on 27th October 2017.

Interpretation

2. In regulation 3(1) all times referred to are Co-ordinated Universal Time( 2).

Restricted airspace

3.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), within each area specified in column 1 of the Schedule, on each date specified in column 2 and during the corresponding times specified in column 3, no aircraft is to fly below the altitude specified in column 4.

(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to any aircraft—

(a) operated by or on behalf of the National Police Air Service,

(b) operated by or on behalf of Dyfed-Powys Police,

(c) operated by or on behalf of the Helicopter Emergency Medical Services, or

(d) flying with the permission of the Wales Rally GB Helicopter Co-ordinator.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

25th September 2017

Sarah Bishop

Head of Aviation Policy

Department for Transport

SCHEDULE

Regulation 3

Column 1

Area

Column 2

Date

Column 3

Time

(UTC)

Column 4

Altitude (above mean sea level)

A. DEESIDE SERVICE AREA

A circle having a radius of 1 nautical mile whose centre is at 531348N 0030118W

27th, 28th and 29th October 2017

0645 – 1715 hours

2,500 feet

B. HAFREN, SWEET LAMB and MYHERIN

A circle having a radius of 6 nautical miles whose centre is at 522630N 0034120W

27th October 2017

0645 – 1715 hours

4,000 feet

C. DYFNANT A

circle having a radius of 2.5 nautical miles whose centre is at 524354N 0032954W

28th October 2017

0645 – 1200 hours

4,000 feet

D. GARTHEINIOG and DYFI

A circle having a radius of 5 nautical miles whose centre is at 524030N 0034636W

28th October 2017

0645 – 1400 hours

4,500 feet

E. ABERHIRNANT

A circle having a radius of 2 nautical miles whose centre is at 525142N 0033142W

28th October 2017

0645 – 1100 hours

4,000 feet

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