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North Atlantic Tracks for the westbound crossing of February 24, 2017, with the new reduced lateral separation minima (RLAT) Tracks shown in blue. The North Atlantic Tracks, officially titled the North Atlantic Organised Track System (NAT-OTS), are a structured set of transatlantic flight routes that stretch from eastern North America to western Europe across the Atlantic Ocean, within the ...
On the North Atlantic the concept of reducing the standard lateral separation was discussed at NAT SPG (North Atlantic Systems Planning Group) meetings as far back as the 1960s. The successful implementation of RVSM and also a Reduced Longitudinal Separation (RLong) program, separating planes on the same track based on time, allowed progress on ...
In January 2017, the ICAO SPG (Authority for the NAT region) published updated guidance indicating that SLOP is now a requirement on the North Atlantic, rather than a recommendation. The guidance was part of a number of changes [1] that were contained in a revised 2017 edition of NAT Doc 007:North Atlantic Airspace and Operations Manual. [2]
The North Atlantic Track Agreement was an agreement in November 1898 [1] among thirteen passenger steamship companies to use a set series of trans-Atlantic routes that stretched from the northeast of North America to western Europe for the Atlantic crossing. Following the tracks was recommended but not compulsory.
The National Hurricane Center is tracking two disturbances in the Atlantic that have a small chance of becoming tropical depressions or storms. Stormtracker: National Hurricane Center tracks ...
On the girls' side, North's Dede Eberle was a force again, winning long jump at 18-4¼, 100 hurdles in 14.72 and posting one of the fastest times in school history in the 200 (25.77, third fastest ...
The iceberg remains the largest in the world, according to measurements updated by the US National Ice Center earlier this month.. Spanning an area of 3,672 square kilometers (1,418-square-miles ...
Shanwick is the air traffic control (ATC) name given to the area of international airspace which lies above the northeast part of the Atlantic Ocean. The Shanwick Oceanic Control Area (OCA) abuts Reykjavík OCA to the north, Gander OCA to the west and Santa Maria OCA to the south.