Red-eye flight

A night flight is carried out during the night time flight. The night is EASA -OPS (formerly JAR -OPS ) is defined as the period between the end of evening civil twilight and the beginning of morning civil twilight (ie, the period of bourgeois night ) or another prescribed by the competent aviation authority period between sunset and sunrise.

In the winter, so a night flight can be conducted starting at about 17:15 clock CET in Central Europe.

In the Federal Republic of Germany after the LuftVO night as the period between half an hour after sunset and half an hour before sunrise.

Holder of a private pilot license usually require a special night qualification to perform at night cross-country flights are allowed. Night flights with Air sports devices are not permitted. According to JAR -FCL 1.026 ( b) for the carriage of passengers at night a start and one landing at night within the preceding 90 days required if the pilot is not instrument rating, but has a night qualification.

For many airports, there are restrictions on the night air transport, such as a ban on night flights. This ban is to protect the population living in the area against aircraft noise, which is considered harmful.

History

The first night flight in 1921, conducted by the U.S. Air Mail from Omaha, Nebraska, to Chicago, Illinois. The visual support of the pilot found by strong ground-based lights, every 20 km along the route instead. In Europe, numerous night routes were built with such route fires. The first international night flight with passenger transport graduated 1923, the Franco- Romanian Compagnie Franco- roumaine de navigation aérienne, short CFRNA, between Belgrade and Bucharest. In the summer of 1926 the German Lufthansa opened the night flight distance from Berlin to Königsberg. Since the introduction of radio beacons, the radio navigation for night flights will be used.