Residential areas under the Off-Airport Landing Ordinance (AuLaV)

Residential areas are defined in Article 2f of the Off-Airport Landing Ordinance (AuLaV; SR 748.132.3). Residential areas are defined as urban areas or groups of at least ten inhabited buildings, including the area within a radius of 100 metres. Landing in residential areas is prohibited for the following purposes:

<ul>

<li>Passenger transport for tourist or leisure purposes (Art. 25b AuLaV),</li>

<li>Non-commercial flights (Art. 32b AuLaV),</li>

<li>Training flights (Art. 34b AuLaV).</li>

</ul>

Off-Airport landings in residential areas for aerial work purposes must be agreed upon in advance with the competent authority under cantonal law (Art. 31 AuLaV).

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The ARE's "housing estate" dataset forms the basis for identifying and presenting "residential areas" and is updated annually.

Simple

Alternate title

Residential areas according AuLaV

Date (Creation)
2024-11-13T00:00:00
Date (Publication)
2025-10-16T00:00:00
Identifier
ch.bazl.wohngebiete-aulav

Status
On going

Point of contact

Federal Office of Civil Aviation - Helicopter Flight Operations
Bern
3003
CH
https://www.bazl.admin.ch/en/hel-national-law

Spatial resolution

Equivalent scale

Denominator
5000

Spatial resolution

Equivalent scale

Denominator
1000000
Topic category
  • P Transportation

Extent

Extent

Description

Switzerland

N
S
E
W








Extent

Extent

Description

Liechtenstein

N
S
E
W








Maintenance and update frequency
Unknown

Resource format

Title

OGC Geopackage (GPKG)

Date
geocat.ch

  • heliport

  • opendata.swiss

  • airspace

  • air navigation

  • FSDI Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure

GEMET

  • aircraft

Resource constraints

Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
Opendata BY: Open use. Must provide the source.
Other constraints

https://www.admin.ch/gov/en/start/terms-and-conditions.html

Language
Deutsch
Character encoding
UTF8
Language
Français
Character encoding
UTF8
Language
Italiano
Character encoding
UTF8
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Distribution format

  • OGC Geopackage (GPKG)

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource

Vorschau map.geo.admin.ch

Preview map.geo.admin.ch

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource

ch.bazl.wohngebiete-aulav

WMS-FSDI service, layer "Residential areas according AuLaV"

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource

ch.bazl.wohngebiete-aulav

WMTS-FSDI service, layer "Residential areas according AuLaV"

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource

https://www.bazl.admin.ch/en/hel-national-law

Link to detailed description (FOCA)

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource

https://data.geo.admin.ch/browser/index.html#/collections/ch.bazl.wohngebiete-aulav

Link for data download

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource

https://map.geo.admin.ch/?topic=aviation&lang=en&bgLayer=ch.swisstopo.pixelkarte-grau&layers=ch.bazl.wohngebiete-aulav&layers_opacity=0.6&E=2642942.51&N=1189717.47&zoom=2&catalogNodes=1379

Link to portal

Geometric object type
Surface
Reference system identifier
EPSG:2056

Metadata

Metadata identifier
053aa1d7-ca48-4763-862f-39295f961ba9

Language
Deutsch
Character encoding
UTF8
Language
Français
Character encoding
UTF8
Language
Italiano
Character encoding
UTF8
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Language
Rumantsch
Character encoding
UTF8

Point of contact

Federal Office of Civil Aviation - Specialist unit for geographical information systems (GIS)
Bern
3003
CH
https://www.bazl.admin.ch/de/geoinformation

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Metadata linkage

https://www.geocat.ch/geonetwork/srv/api/records/053aa1d7-ca48-4763-862f-39295f961ba9

Date info (Creation)
2024-09-16T09:26:06.072Z
Date info (Revision)
2026-06-15T07:22:22.456083Z

Metadata standard

Title

eCH-0271

 
 

Overviews

Spatial extent

Keywords

GEMET

aircraft
geocat.ch

FSDI Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure air navigation airspace heliport opendata.swiss


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