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#BGBl. 2025 I Nr. 31159th Regulation Amending the 255th Implementing Regulation to the Air Traffic Regulations (Determination of Route Structures, Reporting Points and Cruise Flight Levels for Instrument Flight Rules Flights in Controlled Airspace within the Federal Republic of Germany)

🇩🇪Germany··Other·Medium Impact·Gazette #311·View source ↗

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🇬🇧 English

This regulation constitutes the 59th amendment to the comprehensive German instrument flight rules (IFR) route network document. It updates specific route structures, mandatory reporting points, and assigned cruise flight levels for IFR operations within Germany's controlled airspace. The changes are technical in nature and reflect ongoing adjustments to the airspace design managed by the Federal Air Traffic Control Supervisory Authority. Published in the Federal Law Gazette (BGBl. 2025 I Nr. 311) on 9 December 2025, the regulation was issued on 5 December 2025. These updates ensure continued safe and efficient management of commercial, cargo, and general aviation IFR traffic across German airspace.

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Key Changes

  • Updates to specific IFR route structures within controlled German airspace
  • Modification of mandatory reporting points (Meldepunkte) for instrument flights
  • Adjustments to assigned cruise flight levels (Reiseflughöhen) for IFR operations

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Obligations

What this law requires

high

Aircraft operators conducting IFR flights in German controlled airspace must comply with the updated route structures as specified in the 59th amendment to the 255th Implementing Regulation

IFR aircraft operators (commercial, cargo, and general aviation)
operational
high

IFR flight crews must report at all mandatory reporting points as defined in the updated regulation when operating in German controlled airspace

IFR flight crews operating in German controlled airspace
reporting
high

Aircraft must maintain assigned cruise flight levels as specified in the updated regulation during IFR operations in German controlled airspace

IFR aircraft operators and flight crews
operational
high

Air traffic control facilities must implement the updated route structures, reporting points, and cruise flight levels from the 59th amendment in their operations and flight planning guidance

German air traffic control facilities and the Federal Air Traffic Control Supervisory Authority (Bundesaufsichtsamt für Flugsicherung)
operational

Affected Parties

Commercial airlines operating IFR flights in GermanyGeneral aviation pilots conducting instrument flights+3 more…

Tags

aviation regulation,IFR routes,German airspace