Each day thousands of aircraft routinely cross the NAT and use airports in Greenland as enroute/ETOPS alternates - mainly BGSF/Sondrestrom and BGBW/Narsarsuaq. It’s big business for Greenland’s major airports, but over the next few years major changes are coming that will directly impact on the o| International Ops 2025 - OPSGROUP
KEWR/Newark Liberty International is the other, other international airport serving the New York metropolitan area - the busiest airport system in the US - along with KJFK/New York JFK and KLGA/La Guardia. Whilst JFK airport is the largest, Newark is actually the busiest in terms of number of fli| International Ops 2024 - OPSGROUP
Aside from being the oldest operating airport in the New York City area, KTEB/Teterboro is far from quiet. In the good ol’ pre-Covid days of 2019 it saw over 124,000 aircraft movements – that’s 340 every single day. And even last year in the height of the pandemic, it was well on the way back to| International Ops 2024 - OPSGROUP
This started off as (and still really is) a very specific post just aimed at folk who operate into KTEB/Teterboro - because the runway 06/24 rehab project has begun! So we copied all the information from the Teterboro User’s Group site and threw it into here. But then we realised the 'problem' wi| International Ops 2024 - OPSGROUP
You may have heard the news. Long story short, KHTO/East Hampton airport is being de-activated as a public use airport, and then re-opened as private use only. The US FAA have given the plans a green light. A raft of new rules will come into effect on May 19 that will heavily affect how commercial o| International Ops 2024 - OPSGROUP
Update: 19th June 2024 Our excitement at seeing another OACC cross the "Oceanic Clearance Removal" finish line has been short lived. Bodø implemented the change on June 17, but it did not go well. As a result, they've rolled back the software, and have now decided to try again on December 4, when S| International Ops 2024 - OPSGROUP
Last week, Gander Oceanic asked us to get the word out on this growing problem. More and more crews are getting this wrong, especially since OCR/RCL is starting to happen elsewhere on the ocean. The same issue is common on the other side of the pond, most frequently in the Shannon FIR. What's the p| International Ops 2024 - OPSGROUP
For some time now, the problematic RUUDY 6 SID out of KTEB has been causing trouble. In fact, just prior to the pandemic the FAA reported it had resulted in nearly two hundred pilot violations in just six years. If you’re not familiar with it, it is a departure from Runway 24. Here's the chart:| International Ops 2024 - OPSGROUP
GPS Spoofing WorkGroup 2024 A GPS Spoofing WorkGroup is now up and running. We will collaborate and discuss all issues, and produce a report for the community The Workgroup is now complete. A final report will be published on September 6, 2024. GPS Spoofing is starting to get out| International Ops 2024 - OPSGROUP
An increasing issue for the NAT Oceanic FIR's is how to handle aircraft with an in-flight degradation of GPS. This normally follows a GPS Spoofing encounter somewhere prior to Oceanic Entry, leading to a degraded RNP capability. If you run into GPS issues before entering the Ocean, you will likel| International Ops 2024 - OPSGROUP
GPS Spoofing Risk changes, grows 900 flights a day on average are now encountering GPS Spoofing Safety risks changing and growing: EGPWS primary concern GPS Workgroup established to address issue Troubling data shows a significant spike in GPS Spoofing over the last few months, wi| International Ops 2024 - OPSGROUP
