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 INSTRUMENT FLIGHT RULES

 APPLICABILITY

All aircraft operating under instrument flight rules shall comply with this Chapter.

 RULES APPLICABLE TO ALL IFR FLIGHTS

 Aircraft Equipment

Aircraft shall be equipped with suitable instruments and with navigation equipment
appropriate to the route to be flown.

 Minimum Levels

Except when necessary for takeoff and landing, or unless authorized by the appropriate
authority, an IFR flight shall be flown at a level which is not below the minimum flight
altitude established by the State whose territory is over-flown, or where no such minimum
flight altitude has been established;

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position of the aircraft.

 Change From IFR Flight To VFR Flight

 An aircraft electing to change the conduct of its flight from compliance with the instrument
flight rules to compliance with the visual flight rules shall, if a flight plan was submitted,
notify the appropriate ATS unit specifically that the IFR flight is cancelled and communicate
thereto the changes to be made to its current flight plan.

 When an aircraft operating under IFR is flown in or encounters VMC, it shall not cancel its
IFR flight plan unless it is anticipated, and intended, that the flight will be continued for a
reasonable period of time in uninterrupted VMC.

 IFR FLIGHTS WITHIN CONTROLLED AIRSPACE

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controlled airspace.

 An IFR flight operating in cruising flight in controlled airspace shall be flown at a cruising
level, or, if authorized to employ cruise climb techniques, between two levels or above a
level, select from the Table of Cruising Levels in the UAE AIP, or as authorized by ATC.

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 IFR FLIGHTS OUTSIDE CONTROLLED AIRSPACE

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(a) Unless approved by the applicable ATS unit, or as provided in subparagraphs (b), (c),
and (d), below, no person shall operate an aircraft under IFR outside of controlled
airspace or at any airport that does not have an approved standard instrument approach
procedure.

(b) The GCAA may issue operations specifications or a specific authorization to an

operator to allow it to operate under IFR over routes outside controlled airspace if:

() The operator shows the GCAA that the flight crew is able to navigate, without
visual reference to the ground, over an intended track without deviating more than
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 The GCAA determines that the proposed operations can be conducted safely.

(c) A person may operate an aircraft under IFR outside of controlled airspace if the operator
has been approved for the operations and that operation is necessary to:

 conduct an instrument approach to an airport for which there is in use a current

approved standard or special instrument approach procedure; or

 climb into controlled airspace during an approved missed approach procedure; or

 make an IFR departure from an airport having an approved instrument procedure.

(d) The GCAA may issue operations specifications or a specific authorization to an

operator to allow departure from an airport that does not have an approved standard
instrument procedure when the GCAA determines that it is necessary to make an IFR
departure from that airport and that the proposed operations can be conducted safely.
The approval to operate at that airport does not include an approval to make an IFR
approach to that airport.

 IFR Cruising Levels

An IFR flight operating in level cruising flight outside controlled airspace shall be flown at a
cruising level appropriate to its track as specified in the AIP, except when otherwise specified
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 Communications

An IFR flight operating outside controlled airspace but within or into areas, or along routes,
designated by the appropriate ATS authority as designated areas or routes, shall maintain an
air-ground voice communication watch on the appropriate communication channel, as
necessary, with the ATS unit providing flight information service.

 Position Reports

An IFR flight operating outside controlled airspace and required by the appropriate ATS
authority to:

(a) submit a flight plan;

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(b) maintain an air-ground voice communication watch on the appropriate communication

channel and establish two-way communication, as necessary, with the ATS unit
providing flight information service,

shall report position as for controlled flights.

 MALFUNCTION REPORTS

 The pilot in command of each aircraft operated in controlled airspace under IFR, shall report
immediately to ATC any of the following malfunctions of equipment occurring in flight:

(a) loss of on-board navigation capability (e.g. VOR, ADF, etc.); or complete or partial loss
of ILS receiver capability; or

(b) reduction in required RNP; or

(c) impairment of air/ground communications capability, or

(d) failure of transponder.

 In each report required above, the pilot in command shall include the:

(a) aircraft identification;

(b) equipment affected;

(c) degree to which the capability of the pilot to operate under IFR in the ATC system is
impaired; and,

(d) nature and extent of assistance he desires from ATC.

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