MOSCOW. Dec 17 (Interfax) - Radio-Technical Troops have been recording airspace intrusions on low altitudes, rules for this zone flights should be toughened, according to Maj. Gen. Andrei Koban, head of the Radio-Technical Troops of the Russian Aerospace Forces.
"In my opinion, the rules for using Class G airspace should be toughened in order to increase control and rule out conditions for flight accidents and incidents," Koban said in an interview with the Armed Forces newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda (Red Star).
"Recent instances of airspace use violation were isolated cases; still, they do happen from time to time. Primarily, in the low zone of airspace, the so-called Class G airspace," Koban said.
This year all such attempts "were promptly foiled by on-duty forces and means of air defense," he said.
Russia has three classes of airspace: A, C and G. In the first one, flights are made on altitudes of over 8,100 meters and controlled by of an air traffic services provider. Class C regulates two types of flights, instrument-based and visual, on altitudes of up to 8,100 meters and controlled by an air traffic services provider.
Flights in Class G can be made on notice and do not require permission from an air traffic services provider. The upper edge in Class G varies between 300 meters in the Rostov region and 4,500 meters in parts of Eastern Siberia.