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title: "SERA.8025 Position reports — ANNEX: Rules of the Air, SERA · Avioverse"
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# SERA.8025 Position reports

ANNEX: Rules of the Air · Regulation (EU) No 923/2012 · EAR revision 26 Aug 2025

IR Implementing rule

## SERA.8025 Position reports

(a) Unless exempted by the [competent authority](https://avioverse.aero/glossary/easa/competent-authority) or by the appropriate [air traffic](https://avioverse.aero/glossary/easa/air-traffic) services unit under conditions specified by that authority, a [controlled flight](https://avioverse.aero/glossary/easa/controlled-flight) shall report to the appropriate air traffic services unit, as soon as possible, the time and [level](https://avioverse.aero/glossary/easa/level) of passing each designated compulsory [reporting point](https://avioverse.aero/glossary/easa/reporting-point), together with any other required information. Position reports shall similarly be made in relation to additional points when requested by the appropriate air traffic services unit. In the absence of designated reporting points, position reports shall be made at intervals prescribed by the competent authority or specified by the appropriate air traffic services unit.

(1) Controlled flights providing position information to the appropriate air traffic services unit via [data link communications](https://avioverse.aero/glossary/easa/data-link-communications) shall only provide voice position reports when requested.

(2) When a controlled flight has been exempted from the requirement to report at compulsory reporting points, pilots shall, unless automated position reporting is in effect, resume voice or CPDLC position reporting:

(i) when so instructed;

(ii) when advised that the ATS surveillance service has been terminated; or

(iii) when advised that the ATS surveillance identification is lost.

(b) With due regard to requirements in SERA.14065 for communications change over, the position report shall contain the following elements:

(1) [aircraft](https://avioverse.aero/glossary/easa/aircraft) identification;

(2) position;

(3) time;

(4) speed, if assigned by ATC; and

(5) other elements as instructed by ATC.

(c) The elements described in point (b) shall be reported as described in point 2 of Point A of Appendix 5.

IR · SERA.8025 — Regulation (EU) No 923/2012 · Regulation (EU) 2024/404 · SERA Easy Access Rules · EAR revision 26 Aug 2025

AMC Acceptable means of compliance

## AMC1 SERA.8025(a) Position reports

TRANSMISSION OF POSITION REPORTS

(a) In the absence of designated reporting points, position reports should be made by the [aircraft](https://avioverse.aero/glossary/easa/aircraft) as soon as possible after the first half hour of the flight and at hourly intervals thereafter.

(b) Under conditions specified by the [competent authority](https://avioverse.aero/glossary/easa/competent-authority), flights may be exempted from the requirement to make position reports at each designated compulsory [reporting point](https://avioverse.aero/glossary/easa/reporting-point) or interval. In applying this, account should be taken of the meteorological requirement for the making and reporting of routine aircraft observations.

AMC · AMC1 SERA.8025(a) — Regulation (EU) No 923/2012 · ED Decision 2024/007/R · SERA Easy Access Rules · EAR revision 26 Aug 2025

GM Guidance material

## GM1 SERA.8025(a)(2) Position reports

RESUMPTION OF CPDLC POSITION REPORTING

The resumption of controller–pilot [data link communications](https://avioverse.aero/glossary/easa/data-link-communications) (CPDLC) position reporting can be achieved through [automatic dependent surveillance — contract (ADS-C)](https://avioverse.aero/glossary/easa/automatic-dependent-surveillance--contract).

GM · GM1 SERA.8025(a)(2) — Regulation (EU) No 923/2012 · ED Decision 2016/023/R · SERA Easy Access Rules · EAR revision 26 Aug 2025

[All rules in SECTION 8 Air traffic control service](https://avioverse.aero/regulations/easa/sera/annex-rules-of-the-air/section-8)

Consolidated from the EASA Easy Access Rules (revision 26 Aug 2025, extracted 13 Oct 2026) for convenience. Not the official publication — verify against the Official Journal of the European Union and the EASA publications before operational use.