6. Flight Priorities

Question 1

Category A - types of flight?

Answer 1

• Aircraft in emergency (e.g. engine fault, fuel shortage, seriously ill passenger)
• Aircraft which have declared a “Police Emergency”.
• Ambulance/Medical aircraft when the safety of life is involved.

Question 2

Category B - types of flight?

Answer 2

• Flights operating for search and rescue or other humanitarian reasons.
• Post accident flight checks.
• Other flights, including Open Skies flights, authorised by the CAA.
• Police flights under normal operational priority.

Question 3

Category C - types of flight?

Answer 3

• Royal flights.
• Flights carrying visiting Heads of State.

(Both of these must have been notified by NOTAM/Temporary Supplement)

Question 4

Category D - type of flights?

Answer 4

• Flights notified by the CAA carrying Heads of Government or very senior government ministers.

Question 5

Category E - types of flights?

Answer 5

• Flight check aircraft engaged on, or in transit to, time or weather critical calibration flights.
• Other flights authorised by the CAA.

Question 6

Normal Flights - type of flight?

Answer 6

• Flights which have filed a flight plan in the normal way and conforming with normal routing procedures.
• Initial instrument flight tests conducted by the CAA Flight Examining Unit. (RTF callsign “EXAM”)

Question 7

Category Z - type of flight?

Answer 7

Training, non-standard and other flights