Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1988 NO. 158 CIVIL AVIATION REGULATIONS - REG 241

241. (1) The Authority may, by notice published in Aeronautical Information
Publications, declare that flights included in specified classes of flights
are flights in respect of which flight plans are required, in the interests of
safety and to ensure compliance with the Convention, to be submitted to Air
Traffic Control.

(2) Subject to subregulation (3), an aircraft shall not be flown on a flight
included in a class of flights specified in a notice under subregulation (1)
unless the flight plan has been submitted to Air Traffic Control.

(3) The Authority may, in a notice under subregulation (1), specify the
circumstances in which, and the conditions subject to which, a flight included
in a class of flights specified in the notice may be commenced and carried on
before the flight plans for the flight are submitted to Air Traffic Control
and subregulation (2) does not apply to and in relation to the flight of an
aircraft that has been commenced in those circumstances and so long as the
conditions so specified are complied with.

(4) The pilot in command of an aircraft that deviates from a flight as
specified in the flight plan that has been submitted under this regulation
shall report the fact as soon as possible to Air Traffic Control.