Preparation of controlled VFR flight by Azzurro Articles

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The controlled VFR flight, in which case?

Here, we will not go into details; SIA (Service de l'Information Aéronautique) site (heading "Réglementation", in English "French regulation") makes it very well ;-)
To be simple, we can say that sometimes VFR flight must obey certain constraints, in the following cases:
- night flight,
- flight over the sea,
- penetration into regulated zones. These zones are mainly the military ones and the important airports ones. In these cases, when access or transit are authorized, the radio contact is mandatory, and the pilot may be obliged to follow a way via reporting points, and he is responsible to call up at each passage of these points. In numerous cases, precise altitudes must also be respected.
To these imperatives of progresses and altitudes, we can also add the obligation to file a flight plan, among others it's the case for the maritime crossings.

Let us see that with concrete examples.

 

In fact, in comparison with classic VFR, the difference is simply that the pilot must stay in contact with a control center during the flight.

Examples:

The best is to have a look at some interesting examples, from data kindly put at our disposal by the SIA (Service de l'Information Aéronautique).

- example 1 : VFR Paris bypass (north route) - (as soon as possible)
We are going to make a VFR flight from Pontoise to Lognes, by by-passing Paris, Le Bourget and Roissy-Charles de Gaulle. It's a precise navigation, and that goes very fast.

- example 2 : maritime crossing from Cannes to Ajaccio - (as soon as possible)
More than 100 miles over the Mediterranean Sea without seeing the ground, alone with a well prepared VFR navigation, it looks like IFR. Unforgettable !