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:
For a specific purpose only. I will go back to the fact that the maps produced by the IAA on behalf of the State are VFRs, that is, for visual flight rules. What they do is specify safe minimum altitudes for particular sectors. For instrument flight procedures, and that relates to specific approaches to aerodromes, they also give more detail and routings. Those more detailed route procedures relate to, as I said, access to aerodromes. They do not relate to the totality of Irish airspace and you do not have instrument flight procedure rules for the majority of the airspace off the west coast, off the east coast and in the hills.
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