1.Air navigation service providers, operators and other users of radios shall ensure that all six digits of the numerical designator are used to identify the transmitting channel in radio-telephony communications, except where both the fifth and sixth digits are zeros, in which case only the first four digits shall be used.
2.Air navigation service providers, operators and other users of radios shall ensure that their air-ground voice communication procedures are in accordance with the ICAO provisions specified in point 3 of Annex II.
3.Air navigation service providers shall ensure that the procedures applicable to aircraft equipped with radios having the 8,33 kHz channel spacing capability and to aircraft which are not equipped with such equipment are specified in the letters of agreement between ATS units.
4.All operators and agents acting on their behalf shall ensure that the letter Y is inserted in item 10 of the flight plan for aircraft equipped with radios having the 8,33 kHz channel spacing capability.
5.Operators and agents acting on their behalf shall ensure that when planning to fly in airspace requiring the carriage of radios with the 8,33 kHz channel spacing capability, the appropriate indicator is included in the flight plan for aircraft not equipped but which have been granted exemption from the mandatory carriage of equipment.
6.In the case of a change in the 8,33 kHz channel spacing capability status for a flight, the operators or the agents acting on their behalf shall send a modification message to IFPS with the appropriate indicator inserted in the relevant item.
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Textual Amendments
F1Art. 8(7) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Air Traffic Management (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/459), regs. 1(2), 315; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)