Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 May 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Standard Instrument Departures at Dublin Airport: Irish Aviation Authority

Mr. Declan Fitzpatrick:

Possibly. After you take off, the key criteria before you do any banking - this is from memory so please do not quote me, although I can come back to the Deputy with specific details - is that the aircraft must be 65 m above the nearest obstacle on the route it banks. When an aircraft comes off the end of the runway and is climbing, before we would allow it under our safety regulations to start to bank, it should reach at least whatever the obstacle is in that area plus another 65 m because it should start banking. That is our criterion so whether that is 650 feet or if there was a hill ahead, it would be a much higher figure. That is our criterion.

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