Annex 2, Rules of the Air. Eleventh edition 2024.
In October 1945, the Rules of the Air and Air Traffic Control (RAC) Division at its first session made recommendations for Standards, Practices and Procedures for the Rules of the Air. These were reviewed by the then Air Navigation Committee and approved by the Council on 25 February 1946. They were published as Recommendations for Standards, Practices and Procedures – Rules of the Air in the first part of Doc 2010, published in February 1946.
The RAC Division, at its second session in December 1946 – January 1947, reviewed Doc 2010 and proposed Standards and Recommended Practices for the Rules of the Air. These were adopted by the Council as Standards and Recommended Practices relating to Rules of the Air on 15 April 1948, pursuant to Article 37 of the Convention on International Civil Aviation (Chicago, 1944) and designated as Annex 2 to the Convention with the title International Standards and Recommended Practices – Rules of the Air. They became effective on 15 September 1948.
On 27 November 1951, the Council adopted a complete new text of the Annex, which no longer contained Recommended Practices. The Standards of the amended Annex 2 (Amendment 1) became effective on 1 April 1952 and applicable on 1 September 1952.
The rules in Annex 2 consist of general rules, visual flight rules and instrument flight rules and apply without exception over the high seas and over national territories to the extent that they do not conflict with the rules of the State being overflown.
The Standards in this document, together with the Standards and Recommended Practices of Annex 11, govern the application of the Procedures for Air Navigation Services – Air Traffic Management (PANS-ATM, Doc 4444) and the Regional Supplementary Procedures – Rules of the Air and Air Traffic Services, contained in Doc 7030, in which latter document will be found subsidiary procedures of regional application.
Amendment 48 (11th Edition)
Sources:
Fourth meeting of the Air Traffic Management Requirements and Performance Panel (ATMRPP/4); and Eighteenth meeting of the Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems Panel (RPASP/18).
Subjects: a) definitions related to flight plans and submission of flight plans; and b) certificates related to international remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) operations in controlled airspace and at aerodromes as of 26 November 2026.
Adopted: 18 March 2024.
Effective: 22 July 2024.
Applicable: 28 November 2024. 26 November 2026.
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