Canadian Aviation Regulations (SOR/96-433)

Airspeed Limitations

• 602.32 (1) Subject to subsection (2), no person shall

  • (a) operate an aircraft at an indicated airspeed of more than 250 knots if the aircraft is below 10,000 feet ASL; or

  • (b) operate an aircraft at an indicated airspeed of more than 200 knots if the aircraft is below 3,000 feet AGL within 10 nautical miles of a controlled aerodrome unless authorized to do so in an air traffic control clearance.

• (2) A person may operate an aircraft at an indicated airspeed greater than the airspeeds referred to in subsection (1) if the aircraft is being operated in accordance with a special flight operations certificate – special aviation event issued pursuant to section 603.02.

• (3) If the minimum safe airspeed for the flight configuration of an aircraft is greater than the airspeed referred to in subsection (1), the aircraft shall be operated at the minimum safe airspeed.

Supersonic Flight

602.33 No person shall operate an aircraft at a true Mach number of 1 or greater.

Cruising Altitudes and Cruising Flight Levels

• 602.34 (1) The appropriate cruising altitude or cruising flight level for an aircraft in level cruising flight is determined in accordance with

  • (a) the magnetic track, in the Southern Domestic Airspace; and

  • (b) the true track, in the Northern Domestic Airspace.

• (2) Subject to subsection (3), the pilot-in-command of an aircraft shall ensure that the aircraft is operated at a cruising altitude or cruising flight level appropriate to the track, as set out in the table to this section, unless the pilot-in-command is assigned another altitude or flight level by an air traffic control unit and the aircraft is operated in level cruising flight

  • (a) at more than 3,000 feet AGL, in VFR flight; or

  • (b) in IFR flight.

• (3) Subsection (2) does not apply where an aircraft is operated for the purpose of aerial survey or mapping and the following conditions are met:

  • (a) the pilot-in-command of the aircraft contacts the appropriate air traffic control unit as far in advance as possible of the proposed flight;

  • (b) the pilot-in-command of the aircraft provides, as far in advance as possible of the proposed take-off time of the aircraft, to any air traffic control unit that so requests, a topographical map at either a 1:500 000 or a 1:1 000 000 scale of the area to be surveyed or mapped, with proposed tracks and planned entry and exit points clearly delineated on the map;

  • (c) the pilot-in-command of the aircraft files a flight plan or flight itinerary with an air traffic control unit as far in advance as possible of the proposed take-off time of the aircraft;

  • (d) the flight plan or flight itinerary referred to in paragraph (c) specifies the area to be surveyed or mapped

    • (i) by reference to the relevant maps of the National Topographic System,

    • (ii) by reference to the geographic co-ordinates of the area, or

    • (iii) where required by an air traffic control unit, by reference to the air photograph block reference grid map provided by the air traffic control unit; and

  • (e) where the aircraft is operated in controlled airspace, it is operated in accordance with an air traffic control clearance.

  TRACK 000° — 179°			TRACK 180° — 359°
  Column I	Column II		Column III	Column IV
  IFR	VFR		IFR	VFR
  1,000	-	Cruising Altitudes or Cruising Flight Levels — 18,000 feet and below	2,000	-
  3,000	3,500		4,000	4,500
  5,000	5,500		6,000	6,500
  7,000	7,500		8,000	8,500
  9,000	9,500		10,000	10,500
  11,000	11,500		12,000	12,500
  13,000	13,500		14,000	14,500
  15,000	15,500		16,000	16,500
  17,000	17,500
  IFR & CVFR			IFR & CVFR
  NON-RVSM	RVSM		NON-RVSM	RVSM
  190	190	Cruising Flight Levels — 180 to 590	180	180
  210	210		200	200
  230	230		220	220
  250	250		240	240
  270	270		260	260
  290	290		280	280
  330	310		310	300
  370	330		350	320
  410	350	RVSM	390	340
  450	370	1,000 feet separation	430	360
  490	390	between FL290–FL410	470	380
  530	410		510	400
  570	450		550	430
  	490		590	470
  	530			510
  	570			550
  				590