Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 24 November 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Irish Aviation Authority: Chairperson Designate

Mr. Diarmuid Ó Conghaile:

We are in ongoing contact with the sector regarding our charts. If the sector says to us, "We fly this particular route and by the way 200 yd. over to east as we are flying in here, there is an obstacle that we would like you to chart", we look at that and agree to chart it. We work with the sector on that. These are VFR charts and generally speaking in covering the territory of the State, they recommend a safe minimum altitude and pilots deviate from that within these instrument flight procedure rules.

They are only covered by the charts for specific routes into aerodromes. You could not have them for every possible route that a SAR helicopter------

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