What is overflight and landing permit and how does it Work?

Do you really want to know more about overflight and landing permit? Do you know how it works both in India as well as in abroad?

A landing permit is an authorization to land at a given airport.

Also, it confirms that there are no noise or safety objections to your type of aircraft. Also, no commercial objection is there if you’re operating the flight for revenue. 

Overflight and landing permits are required by an aircraft to overfly land or make a technical stop in any country's airspace.

All countries have their own rules and regulations regarding the issuance of flight permits as there’re generally a payment involved.

Flights operating on behalf of government, military and state heads often need diplomatic clearances.

A special permit is needed where the aircraft isn’t being operated on a normal certificate of airworthiness. It requires approval from the transport ministry.  

A diplomatic permit is required where the aircraft concerned is government or military.

The Foreign Affairs Ministry of the country for which you’re overflying generally issues diplomatic permits.  

The overflight and landing charges are normally billed to the operators or their agents by the concerned national aviation authority.

It’s responsible for maintaining and operating all the ground to air communication facilities in its region.    

Over many years, Vision Aviation Global has completed a range of successful operations in this field and has built close relationships with Embassies worldwide.

So, they can guarantee that such sensitive and often complex clearances can be obtained both correctly and according to the strict procedure.  

Each country that makes up the FIR has its own set of rules and most of them would require a Permit.

The Overflight Permit is always there so that the Authority can control traffic overflying from a Security, Safety, and Regulatory oversight perspective.  

Country by country, the Overflight Permit rules are as follows:  

·         Costa Rica: No overflight permits is required; an FPL should be filed twenty four hours in advance. Non-commercial flights don’t require a landing permits either.  

·         Nicaragua: requires an overflight permit. A landing permit is also needed if stopping in the country. 

·         El Salvador: doesn’t require an overflight and landing permit.  

·         Honduras: Requires an overflight and landing permit.  

·         Guatemala: Requires an overflight and landing permit.  

·         Belize: Requires an overflight and landing permit.

If you want to get a special permit, then the cost is different for different country as per the complexity and the charges offered by the Civil Aviation and transport ministry.  

An Overflight and landing permits is required for all operations to the country.