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#BGBl. 2025 I Nr. 15056th Regulation Amending the 255th Implementing Regulation to the Air Traffic Regulations (Determination of Route Structures, Reporting Points and Cruising Altitudes for Instrument Flight Rules Flights in Controlled Airspace within the Federal Republic of Germany)

🇩🇪Germany··Other·Medium Impact·Gazette #150·View source ↗

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🇬🇧 English

This regulation, published in the Federal Law Gazette (BGBl. 2025 I Nr. 150) on 2 July 2025 and issued on 27 June 2025, represents the 56th amendment to the comprehensive German instrument flight rules (IFR) route network regulation. It updates the official definitions of specific airway routings, mandatory reporting points, and assigned cruising flight levels within Germany's controlled airspace. The changes are managed by the Federal Air Traffic Control Supervisory Office and are technical in nature, primarily affecting the structure of the national airway system used by commercial, cargo, and general aviation operators conducting IFR flights.

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Key Changes

  • Updates specific airway routings and associated reporting points in controlled German airspace
  • Revises assigned cruising flight levels for IFR operations
  • Implements technical adjustments to the national instrument flight route structure

+ 2 more changes with Pro

Obligations

What this law requires

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Aircraft operators conducting IFR flights in German controlled airspace must comply with the updated airway route structures, reporting points, and cruising altitudes as defined in the 255th Implementing Regulation to the Air Traffic Regulations, as amended by this 56th amendment

Commercial aviation operators, cargo operators, and general aviation operators conducting IFR flights
operational
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Flight crews must report at the mandatory reporting points as specified in the amended regulation when operating under IFR in German controlled airspace

IFR flight crews operating in German controlled airspace
reporting
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Aircraft must maintain the assigned cruising altitudes (Reiseflughöhen) as defined in the amended regulation for IFR flights within German controlled airspace

All aircraft operators conducting IFR flights in German controlled airspace
operational
high

Air traffic control authorities and operators must utilize the updated route structures (Streckenführungen) as specified in this amendment for managing IFR flights

German air traffic control authorities and IFR flight operators
operational

Affected Parties

Commercial airlines operating in German airspaceCargo and freight aviation operators+3 more…

Tags

air traffic control,IFR routes,aviation regulation