Part Part 4 - Part 91 (General Operating and Flight Rules) Manual of Standards 2020 - ALL FLIGHTS — AIRSPEED LIMITS

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CHAPTER 4 ALL FLIGHTS — AIRSPEED LIMITS

4.01 Purpose

For subregulation 91.090 (1), this Chapter prescribes the airspeed limits for a flight.

Note Other sections of this MOS include references to speeds: see section 2.02 (specified aircraft performance category), section 2.07 (VMC criteria) and section 14.09 (instrument approach operational requirements).

4.02 Flight to be within indicated airspeed limits

Subject to this section, if an aircraft is flown:

(a) in the airspace mentioned in an item of column 1 in Table 4.02 (1); and

(b) under the flight rules mentioned in the same item of column 2;

then the pilot in command must ensure that the aircraft is flown at not more than the maximum indicated airspeed limits (if any) mentioned in the same item of column 3, unless the requirements of aviation safety require otherwise.

Table 4.02 (1) — Airspeed limits

	Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Item	Class of airspace	Flight rules	Maximum indicated airspeed
1	Class C	VFR	Below 10 000 ft AMSL — 250 kts.
2	Class D	IFR or VFR	Either:(a) unless paragraph (b) applies — 250 kts; or(b) unless paragraph (c) or (d) applies, if authorised by ATC in response to the pilot in command declaring a higher speed is an operational requirement — no limiting speed; or(c) unless paragraph (d) applies, when at or below 2 500 ft above aerodrome elevation and within 4 NM of the primary aerodrome in that airspace — 200 kts; or(d) if authorised by ATC, when at or below 2 500 ft above aerodrome elevation and within 4 NM of the primary aerodrome in that airspace — 250 kts.
3	Class G and E	IFR or VFR	Below 10 000 ft AMSL — 250 kts.