CIVIL AVIATION (AIRCRAFT NOISE) (LIMITATION ON LANDING OR TAKING OFF OF AIRCRAFT) NOTICE

CIVIL AVIATION (AIRCRAFT NOISE) (LIMITATION ON LANDING OR TAKING OFF OF AIRCRAFT) NOTICE

CIVIL AVIATION (AIRCRAFT NOISE) (LIMITATION
ON LANDING OR TAKING OFF OF AIRCRAFT)
NOTICE

(Cap. 312, section 6)




[1 November 1989]


L.N. 356 of 1989

1. Citation

This notice may be cited as the Civil Aviation (Aircraft Noise)(Limitation
on Landing or Taking Off of Aircraft) Notice.

2. Interpretation

In this notice, unless the context otherwise requires

,,aerodrome operating minima' has the same meaning as in Article 92(1) of the

Air Navigation (Overseas Territories) Order 1977 (App. 111 p. DP 79);

'Runway 1Y' means the runway at Hong Kong International Airport which

bears the direction of 134 true bearing;

'Runway 31' means the runway at Hong Kong International Airport which

bears the direction of 314 true bearing.

3. Limitation on landing or taking off in Hong Kong

between the hours of 11.30 p.m. and 6.30 a.m.

(1) An aircraft shall not land or take off at Hong Kong International

Airport between the hours of 11.30 p.m. and 6.30 a.m. otherwise than in accordance
with subparagraph (2) or (3).

(2) Subject to complying where appropriate with paragraph 4(b) or (d) as the
case requires, an aircraft may land or take off at Hong Kong International Airport
between 11.30 p.m. and 12 midnight if the circumstances leading to the aircraft
landing or taking off between those hours could not have been reasonably foreseen
by the operator.

(3)Subject to complying where appropriate with paragraph 4(a) or (c) as
the case requires, an aircraft may land or take off at Hong Kong International
Airport between the hours of 12 midnight and 6.30 a.m. if-
(a) the aircraft-

(i) lands or takes off when carrying any person other than a crew
member, an operator's employee in an official capacity,





an authorized representative of an appropriate national
authority or a person accompanying a consignment or other
cargo; or

(ii) is certificated in accordance with noise levels specified in Annex
16 to the Convention on International Civil Aviation and
applicable to such aircraft; and

(b) the aircraft lands or takes off after 12 midnight with the

permission of the Air Traffic Services Watch Supervisor given in
response to a request made to the Air Traffic Services Watch
Supervisor by the operator before 12 midnight for such landing
or taking off, and

(c) the circumstances leading to the aircraft landing or taking off

after 12 midnight could not have been reasonably foreseen by the
operator.

4. Limitation on landing or taking ofr in Hong
Kong at Runway 31 or Runway 13

An aircraft shall not-

(a) take off at Runway 31 between the hours of 12 midnight and 6.30

a.m.; or

(b) take off at Runway 31 between the hours of 9 p.m. and 12

midnight, or between the hours of 6.30 a.m. and 7 a.m. unless-

(i) crosswind or tailwind components appear likely to adversely
affect the safety of aircraft taking ofF at Runway 13; or

(ii)the weather conditions are below the aerodrome operating
minima permitting the aircraft to take off at Runway 13; or

(iii)track guidance is not available to the aircraft after take off at
Runway 13 by reason of the unserviceability of ground
navigation aids or aircraft equipment; or

(c) land at Runway 13 between the hours of 12 midnight and 6.30

a.m. unless the tailwind component, including gust values, at
Runway 31 exceeds 5 knots if the runway is wet or 10 knots if the
runway is dry; or

(d) land at Runway 13 between the hours of 9 p.m. and 12 midnight,

or between the hours of 6.30 a.m. and 7 a.m. unless-

(i) the tailwind component, including gust values, at Runway 31
exceeds 5 knots if the runway is wet or 10 knots if the runway
is dry; or

(ii) the weather conditions are below the aerodrome operating
minima permitting the aircraft to land at Runway 3 1; or

(iii) track guidance is not available to the aircraft landing at Runway
31 by reason of the unserviceability of ground navigation aids
or aircraft equipment.

https://oelawhk.lib.hku.hk/items/show/3188

1964

v20

312

2