Mandatory Permit Directives summarise actions that are required to be complied with by UK Owners and Operators of Permit to Fly aircraft.

CAP 661 - Mandatory Permit Directives contains all issued MPDs up until 31 January 2012, when the publication ceased to be amended. The MPDs in CAP 661 remain valid and are not ‘withdrawn’, unless stated in the MPD lists below. Further information can be found in Information Notice 2012/015.

MPDs issued after January 2012 will be published on the website under Safety Critical Information and distributed via the CAA Publication Notification Service.

The links listed below will take you to the relevant status report.

MPDs issued since 1 January 2011 under the Safety Directive banner

Alphabetical List of MPDs

List of MPDs cancelled since the publication of the last amendment to CAP 661.

Proposed MPDs (PMPDs).

PMPDs are available for review and comment. The closing date for comments is stated at the end of the PMPD. Comments should be sent to the AD Unit .

DISTRIBUTION OF MPDs

If you require  to be notified of MPDs you will need to register for our free publications subscription service and choose the safety critical information category. Once you have subscribed you will be notified every time a new MPD is published on the CAA website.

   Alternatively you may copy and paste this RSS News Feed http://www.caa.co.uk/RSS/RSS_15.xml into your news reader service.

Please note that the Safety Critical Information category also includes Emergency ADs.