NAT Ops Guide: My first North Atlantic Flight is tomorrow (2025)

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NAT Ops Guide: My first North Atlantic Flight is tomorrow (2025)

US$25.00

This NAT Ops Guidebook covers (we hope!) everything you need for both a routine crossing (but still complex), and non-routine (eg. No HF, No HLA, No RVSM) ferry flight.

This edition: 2025. Latest changes, easy to read guidance, sample flights, Flight Planning codes, ATC contact numbers, Diversion airports guide, Blue Spruce routes, VHF coverage, non-standard overflight permits - all in one single guide.

24 pages, PDF format.

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Of all the hundreds of questions we see in OPSGROUP, one region stands out as the most asked about - the NAT, or North Atlantic. So, we made one of our legendary guides, to get everything into one place.  It's called "My first North Atlantic Flight is tomorrow".

Contents:

  • 1. What's different about the NAT?

  • 2. Changes in 2024, 2023, all the way back to 2016.

  • 3. (Updated 2024) Circle of Entry - a visual depiction of what equipment is needed to enter the different parts of the NAT region airspace.

  • 4. NAT Quick Map - Gander boundary, Shanwick boundary

  • 5. Routine Flight Example #1 - Brussels to JFK (up at 5.45am) - NAT HLA certification, Oceanic Paperwork, Special requirements, getting an Oceanic Clearance, Equipment failure, Weather deviation, and going off track.

  • 6. Non Routine-Flights: No PBCS, No RVSM, No RNP4, No HF, 1 LRNS, No HLA, No ETOPS, No TCAS, No Datalink - what you can do and where you can go.

  • 7. Diversion Airports guide: A couple of notes on each of the most popular diversion airports from Shannon to Goose Bay: What to expect.

  • 8. Airport data: BGBW Narsarsuaq, BGSF Sondy, BIKF Keflavik, EGPF Glasgow, EGPK Prestwick, LPLA Lajes, LPAZ Santa Maria, EINN Shannon, EIDW Dublin, CYFB Fro Bay, CYYR Goose Bay, CYQX Gander, CYYT St. Johns, LPPR Porto, LPPT Lisbon, TXKF Bermuda.

  • 9. Overflight permits - routine and special, non-standard airworthiness, how to get one.

  • 10. Special NAT procedures: Mach number technique, SLOP, Comms, Oceanic Transition Areas, A successful exit, Screwing it up, Departing from Close Airports

  • 11. North Atlantic ATC contacts - Shanwick, Gander, Iceland, Bodo, Santa Maria, New York - ATC Phone, Radio Station Phone, AFTN, Satcom, CPDLC Logon codes; and adjoining Domestic ATC units - US, Canada, Europe.

  • 12. NAT FPL Codes and Flight Levels

  • 13. The Contingency procedure - weather and diversions

  • 14. Flight Plan Filing Addresses by FIR

  • 15. NAT Clearance or no Clearance, guide to the new RCL process.

  • 16. Common Gotchas: ATC and OPSGROUP Member favorites.

  • 17. Links, Questions, Guidance

NAT Ops Guide: My first North Atlantic Flight is tomorrow (2025)
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You might also need a Plotting Chart to go with your guide?

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North Atlantic Plotting Chart (2025)
North Atlantic Plotting Chart (2025)
US$35.00

This is a Hi-Res North Atlantic Plotting and Planning Chart in PDF format showing North Atlantic Oceanic Airspace, Shanwick, Gander, Reykjavik, Bodø, New York, Santa Maria, and adjoining domestic airspace, with easy to read NAT Tips, Airspace requirements, Emergency procedures, and much more!

This chart effective: October 2024

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