Official Agreement
The exact wording of the agreement:
SAHPA agrees to:
- Ensure that take-off site care takers or owners where no caretakers are appointed (CARE TAKERS), of all sites listed in Appendix B are aware of this agreement and that they accept the responsibility to communicate this agreement to all pilots who launch from their sites.
- Advise CARE TAKERS that
- All sectors in Appendix A are under the control of FALW and subject to this agreement.
- Launching from sites listed in Appendix B, are subject to this agreement.
- Airspace clearance applications are
- Not required during pre-defined weekend and weekday concessions, as defined in FALW (agrees to) section 1.
- Required when not covered by 2.3.1 and when any part of a flight is planned to within 10km of FALW airspace as defined in Appendix A.
- Restricted and should only occur via the points of contact listed in Appendix C.
- To be made no later than two hours before launching but ideally the day before.
- To include:
- Planned flight date
- Planned launch site
- Planned route code or sectors if route not listed
- Expected maximum altitude during the flight
- Deemed successful if no reply is received from FALW.
- FALW has to right to close airspace at its own discretion.
- Strongly encourage its qualified members to use airband radios when flying in areas affected by this agreement.
FALW agrees to:
- Allow access to all airspace to a Level of
- i. 1500m Above Mean Sea Level (AMSL) during the week for October to February for sectors 8 and 9.
- ii. As indicated in Appendix B over weekends and public holidays
- Advise pilots via any of the points of contact in Appendix C of any restrictions affecting
- i. Section 1 before 09h00 on the day.
- ii. SAHPA (Agrees to) Section 2.3 as soon as possible.
- Accept that non-motorised gliders have limited control over the execution of route plans and that such routes can be abandoned within minutes of taking off.