The Wireless Telegraphy (Limitation of Number of Licences) Order 2003

Articles 3 and 4

SCHEDULE 8 AERONAUTICAL

PART 1 FREQUENCIES ALLOCATED TO AERONAUTICAL USE

Aircraft
Aircraft (Transportable)
2850–3025 kHz	17900–17970 kHz	5350–5470 MHz
3400–3500 kHz	21924–22000 kHz	9300–9500 MHz
4650–4700 kHz	117.975–137.000 MHz	13250–13400 MHz
5480–5680 kHz	121.5, 243 and 406–406.1 MHz	15500–15700 MHz
6525–6685 kHz	960–1215 MHz
8815–8965 kHz	1626.5–1660.5 MHz (with
10050–10100 kHz	associated downlink frequencies:
11275–11400 kHz	1525–1559 MHz) (1)
13260–13360 kHz	4200–4400 MHz

Aeronautical Ground Station Air Traffic/Ground Movement Control
Aeronautical Ground Station Airfield Flight Information Service
2850–3025 kHz	8815–8965 kHz	21924–22000 kHz
3400–3500 kHz	10050–10100 kHz	117.975–137.000 MHz
4650–4700 kHz	11275–11400 kHz	455.475–455.85 MHz
5480–5680 kHz	13260–13360 kHz	460.750–461.225 MHz
6525–6685 kHz	17900–17970 kHz

Aeronautical Ground Station (General Aviation)
129.900 MHz, 130.100 MHz, 130.125 MHz, 130.400 MHz (Glider Ground Station (Standard))
129.975 (Glider Ground Station (Common Field Frequency))
122.475 MHz (Balloon Ground Station)
130.525 MHz, 129.900 MHz (Parachute Ground Station)
129.825 MHz (Microlight Ground Station)
118.675 MHz (Hang Gliders/Paragliders)
121.600 MHz (Fire Service)

Aeronautical Navigational Aids and Radar
255.0–435 kHz	1215–1350 MHz
505–526.5 kHz	2700–3100 MHz
74.8–75.2 MHz	5000–5250 MHz
108.000–117.975 MHz	9300–9500 MHz
328.6–335.4 MHz	15400–15700 MHz
960-1215 MHz

Aeronautical Ground Station (Operations Controls)
2850–3025 kHz	8815–8965 kHz	21924–22000 kHz
3400–3500 kHz	10050–10100 kHz	117.975–137.000 MHz
4650–4700 kHz	11275–11400 kHz	455.475–455.85 MHz
5480–5680 kHz	13260–13360 kHz	460.750–461.225 MHz
6525–6685 kHz	17900–17970 kHz

PART 2 CRITERIA RELATING TO PERSONS TO WHOM WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY LICENCES MAY BE GRANTED

Aircraft Licence (including Aircraft (Transportable))

1.  An applicant must undertake to use the radio equipment in an aircraft or similar airborne apparatus.

2.  An applicant must possess a Flight Radiotelephony Operators Certificate of Competence issued by the Secretary of State under Article 21 of the Air Navigation Order 2000(2). This is issued by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA)(3) on behalf of the Secretary of State.

3.  An applicant who is a glider pilot and who undertakes to operate only on the nominated glider frequencies is exempt from the requirement in paragraph 2 of Part 2 of this Schedule.

Aeronautical Ground Station Air Traffic/Ground Movement Control

4.  An applicant must be in an official position in an air traffic control capacity.

5.  An applicant must prove that the equipment he intends to use under an Aeronautical Ground Station Air Traffic/Ground Movement Control Licence is an aeronautical navigation installation assessed as fit for purpose under the Air Navigation Order 2000 by the Civil Aviation Authority’s Air Traffic Safety Standards Department(4).

Aeronautical Ground Station Airfield Flight Information Service

6.  An applicant must undertake to use the assigned frequencies solely for the purposes of operation control. “Operation control” means the exercise of authority over the initiation, continuation, or diversion of a flight in the interest of safety of the aircraft and the regularity and efficiency of the flight(5).

7.  An applicant must prove that the equipment he intends to use under an Aeronautical Ground Station Airfield Flight Information Service Licence is an aeronautical navigation installation assessed as fit for purpose under the Air Navigation Order 2000 by the Civil Aviation Authority’s Air Traffic Safety Standards Department.

Aeronautical Ground Station (General Aviation)

8.  An applicant must prove that the equipment he intends to use under an Aeronautical Ground Station (General Aviation) Licence is an aeronautical navigation installation assessed as fit for purpose under the Air Navigation Order 2000 by the Civil Aviation Authority’s Air Traffic Safety Standards Department.

Aeronautical Navigational Aids and Radar

9.  An applicant must prove that the equipment he intends to use under an Aeronautical Navigational Aids and Radar Licence is an aeronautical navigation installation assessed as fit for purpose under the Air Navigation Order 2000 by the Civil Aviation Authority’s Air Traffic Safety Standards Department.

PART 3 CRITERIA LIMITING NUMBER OF WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY LICENCES

10.  The availability of the Aeronautical Ground Station Air Traffic/Ground Movement Control Licence, Aeronautical Ground Station Airfield Flight Information Service Licence and Aeronautical Ground Station (General Aviation) Licence is limited in any particular location at these frequencies by the technical frequency assignment criteria set out in Aeronautical Wireless Telegraphy Act Radio Licences (Including Technical Frequency Assignment Criteria) Published by the RA(6).

11.  All applications for licences are considered (and any technical frequency assignment criteria applied) in the order of receipt of each correctly completed application form.

12.  Applicants must undertake to use the assigned frequencies soley for the transmission and reception of signals as part of the “aeronatautical radio or radio navigation (including satellite) service” as defined in Article 1 of the Radio Regulations.

(1)

Article 5.357A of the Radio Regulations applies.

(2)

S.I. 2000/1562.

(3)

The Civil Aviation Authority can be contacted at Radio Licensing Section, Directorate of Airspace Policy, CAA House, K6G6, 45-59 Kingsway, London WC2B 6TE.

(4)

All new aeronautical navigation installations must have been assessed as fit for purpose under the Air Navigation Order 2000 by the Civil Aviation Authority’s Air Traffic Safety Standards Department before a radio licence can be issued.

(5)

The same definition of “operation control” appears at Annex 6, Part 1 and 3, chapter 1a of the Convention on Inernational Civil Aviation (also known as the Chicago Convention).

(6)

Reference RA417 (June 2003).