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The Civil Aviation (Construction of Visual and Instrument Flight Procedures) Regulations, 2025
14. Flight procedure design (FPD)
Edition: 2026-03-03 · In force
14. Flight procedure design (FPD)
(1)Flight procedures shall be designed in accordance with these Regulations, the criteria and any other procedures as may be specified by the Authority.(2)Coordination with all concerned parties shall continue throughout the procedure design and validation process to ensure that the procedure meets the needs of the user community.(3)The flight procedure design service provider shall ensure that—(a)each new or revised procedure is verified by a qualified procedure designer other than the one who designed the procedure;(b)provision is made for a person trained in flight procedure design to check and verify independently each flight procedure designed;(c)published procedures are subject to periodic review at intervals not exceeding five years to ensure that they continue to comply with changing criteria, user requirements, changes to obstacles, aerodrome, aeronautical and, navaid data and depiction standards;(d)designers develop and maintain flight procedures design documentation that includes—(i)information required for publication in the Aeronautical Information Publication;(ii)details and assumptions made by the flight procedure designer, such as—(aa)controlling obstacle for each segment of the procedure;(bb)effect of environmental considerations on the design of the procedure;(cc)infrastructure assessment;(dd)airspace constraints;(ee)reasons for any changes in cases of modifications or amendments to existing procedures,;(ff)reasons for any deviation from existing standards and details of the mitigations applied to assure continued safe operations; and(gg)results of the final verification for accuracy and completeness prior to validation and publication;(e)the design records are retained for a period not less than the operational lifetime of the procedure;(f)all calculations and results of calculations are presented in a manner that enables the reader to follow and trace the logic and resultant output;(g)records of all calculations in paragraph (e) are kept in order to prove compliance to or variation from the standard criteria;(h)all documentation undergoes a final verification for accuracy and completeness prior to validation and publication;(i)all documentation are retained for a period of not less than the operational lifetime of the procedure to assist in recreating the procedure in the future in the case of incidents and for periodic review and maintenance;(j)ground validation is undertaken by a qualified flight procedure designer with appropriate knowledge of validation issues;(k)flight validation is conducted whenever the following conditions exist-(i)the fly-ability of a procedure cannot be determined by other means;(ii)the procedure requires mitigation for deviations from design criteria;(iii)the accuracy or integrity of terrain and obstacle data sets cannot be determined by other means;(iv)new procedures differ significantly from existing procedures; and(v)for helicopter PinS procedures.(1)the design takes consideration of noise abatement procedures for specific aerodromes;(2)A flight procedure design service provider must ensure that a flight procedure covered by its approval does not use a ground-based radio-navigation aid other than one approved by the Authority.