The Air Traffic Services (Exemption) Order 2011

Interpretation

2.  In this Order—

“aerodrome traffic zone” means the airspace identified as follows.

(a)

Subject to paragraph (c), in relation to an aerodrome—

(i)

which is not on an offshore installation, and

(ii)

at which the length of the longest runway does not exceed 1,850 metres,

the airspace extending from the surface to a height of 2000 feet above the level of the aerodrome within the area bounded by a circle centred on the mid-point of the longest runway and having a radius of 2 nautical miles.

(b)

Where an aerodrome—

(i)

is not on an offshore installation, and

(ii)

the length of its longest runway exceeds 1,850 metres,

the airspace extending from the surface to a height of 2000 feet above the level of the aerodrome within the area bounded by a circle centred on the mid-point of the longest runway and having a radius of 2 ½ nautical miles.

(c)

In a case where the airspace identified in accordance with paragraph (a) would extend less than 1 ½ nautical miles beyond the end of any runway at the aerodrome, the length of the longest runway at that aerodrome is to be treated as exceeding 1,850 metres for the purpose of identifying the airspace and paragraph (b) applies.

(d)

In relation to an aerodrome which is on an offshore installation, the airspace extending from mean sea level to a height of 2000 feet above that level and within 1 ½ nautical miles of the offshore installation.

“area control centre” means a centre established primarily for the purpose of providing an area control service;

“area control service” means the giving, in the interests of safety, of instructions, advice or information by means of radio signals to aircraft flying outside the vicinity of an aerodrome traffic zone.