Comoros Overflight Permit Regulations

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About Comoros | History - Geography

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Comoros, an independent state comprising three of the Comoro Islands in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of East Africa. A fourth island of the Comorian archipelago, Mayotte, is claimed by the country of Comoros but administered by France. The volcanic islands of the Comorian archipelago have been called the “perfumed islands” for their fragrant plant life and are known for their great scenic beauty. The four main islands of the archipelago—“four small effervescent stones, wedged between the nearby large red island [Madagascar] and the Mozambican coast,” in the words of the Comorian writer Sitti Saïd Youssouf—combine African, Arabic, Malagasy, and French influences and were once important in the significant Indian Ocean trade between East Africa and Asian ports such as India and Japan.

Although the early history of the islands is uncertain, they are thought to have been explored by Arab and Persian traders in antiquity and, like Madagascar, settled by small numbers of Malayo-Indonesian peoples, gaining a sizable population only when Bantu-speaking peoples from the African mainland settled there. Shirazi Persians are thought to have arrived later, establishing Sunni Islam as the dominant religion. The ensuing Shirazi sultanates established trade relations with other countries along the Indian Ocean and developed a thriving economy based on the sale of spices and slaves. The opening of the Suez Canal substantially lessened the islands’ importance as an entrepôt, though not their strategic value. European colonial powers agreed that the Comorian archipelago would come under French rule in 1886–87, and it became an overseas territory of France in 1947. Three of the islands gained independence in 1975.

The Given Below Information Is Extracted from the Comoros AIP

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Procedures for Submission of a Flight Plan

The flight plan form used is in accordance with ICAO flight plan as it appears in the document PANS/RAC (DOC.4444 - RAC 501).

The flight plan must be issued at least 30 minutes prior to the expected departure time at the ATS Reporting Office (ARO) at the departure aerodrome, in the case only where the FPL can be transmitted to the concerned recipient organisms.

When it occurs a delay of more than one hour in relation with the expected departure time, a new FPL must be issued and the former FPL cancelled.

Flights destined for an aerodrome located in a Flight Information Region (FIR) non managed by ASECNA

The FPL is established in accordance with arrangements of DOC. 4444 - RAC 501, except in that concerning:

Item 15 - The Air Speeds Will Be Expressed In Knots

The positions in relation with a radio navigation station will be provided under the following form :

(abeam East NDB TESSALIT for example) ABM E/TZE On utilizer N - E - S - W pour Nord , Est , Sud et Ouest One can use N - E - S - W for North, East, South and West.

Item 18 - The name of operator and the flight number should be mentioned in this item, under the form OPR/three letters code company and flight number.

• OPR / UTA 1524

Flights Within Flight Information Regions (FIR) Managed By ASECNA

Flights including several stops don't lead to the establishment that only one FPL; however, a new FPL must be issued at all stopover aerodrome whose length of stay exceeds 2 hours.

For the application of this method, it is necessary to proceed as following:

• The stopover aerodromes will be mentioned in item 15 in which one can include the appropriate aerodrome location indicators, as if it concerned report points.

• The estimated arrival and departure time concerning the stopover aerodromes will be specified in item 18, under the following form:

RMK / ETA / ETD / GABS 0745 / 0835DFOO 0935 / 1015DFFD 1100 / 1215DRRN 1310.RMK / ETA / ETD / GABS 0745 / 0835 DFOO 0935 / 1015 DFFD 1100 / 1215 DRRN 1310.

REMARK: Information to include in items 15 and 18 will be mentioned in the FPL as indicated above.

Addressing Of Flight Plan Messages

Transmission Of Messages On An Aerodrome Having A Telecommunications Office

1.- Flights destined for an aerodrome non managed by ASECNA :

Flight Plan : the organism at which was issued the FPL transmits it as soon as the submission has been executed:

• To the interested Regional Control Centres and Flight Information Centres

• To the destination aerodrome

• To the alternate aerodrome if the rerouting must have after the normal hour of aerodrome closing or if some services are not provided on this aerodrome, that only on request. The alternate aerodrome must acknowledge receipt of flight plan to the Flight Information Centre from which it depends.

Message DEP

• The message DEP is transmitted to all organisms to which the flight plan has been addressed.

Message ARR

On the aerodromes equipped with either an AFIS service, either a CTR, either a TMA limited to a level lower or equal to FL 245 and a ray equal or lower to 80 NM, the aerodrome Control addresses the arrival message ARR to the Flight Information Centre or to the Regional Control Centre from which depends the arrival aerodrome.

In addition to that, when the aircraft landed on an aerodrome another one that the one indicated in the FPL, the message of arrival is addressed then:

• To the destination aerodrome indicated in the FPL

• To the ATS organisms in charge of each of airspaces that, according to the FPL, the aircraft should have performed overflight if it had not been rerouted.

On the aerodromes equipped with either an AFIS service, either a CTR, either a TMA limited to a level lower or equal to FL 245 and a ray equal or lower to 80 NM, the aerodrome Control addresses the arrival message ARR to the Flight Information Centre or to the Regional Control Centre from which depends the arrival aerodrome.

In this case, the aerodrome control doesn't transmit any arrival message.

Flights Performed Within Flight Information Regions Managed By ASECNA

Flights without stopover: The FPL and messages DEP and ARR are addressed to :

• The interested Regional Control Centers and Flight Information Centers

• The destination aerodrome

• The alternate aerodrome

Flights With Intermediate Stopovers:

The organism at which was issued the FPL transmits it as soon as the submission has been executed to:

• The interested CIV and ACC

• The destination aerodrome

• The stopover aerodromes

• To the alternate aerodrome if the rerouting must have after the normal hour of aerodrome closing or if some services are not provided on this aerodrome, that only on request.

The alternate aerodrome must acknowledge receipt of flight plan to the CIV from which it depends.

• Message DEP : the message is addressed to :

• The interested Regional Control Centers and Flight Information Centers.

• The next stopover aerodrome indicated in the flight plan.

• Message ARR : it is addressed to the same recipients than flight plan.

Transmission of Messages on The Aerodromes Non-Equipped with A Telecommunications Office

These arrangements are only valid in the Flight Information Regions managed by ASECNA.

Flight Plan

Since take-off, the pilot-in command communicates its flight plan, in which the departure time is the effective time of take-off

• To the Flight Information Centre from which depends the departure aerodrome: the aircraft must fly in VMC conditions until the moment where the CIV can acknowledge the receipt of the FPL

Then, the CIV transmits the FPL to :

• The interested CIV

• The destination aerodrome, if this one is equipped with a telecommunications Office.

Departure Message (DEP)

On the stopover aerodromes, the pilot-in command addresses since the take-off , the message DEP:

• To the CIV from which depends the departure aerodrome this Centre transmits it to :

• The interested Regional Control Centers and Flight Information Centers

• The destination aerodrome, if this one is equipped with a telecommunications Office.

Arrival message (ARR)

The pilot-in command addresses the message ARR before landing:

• To the Flight Information Centre or Regional Control Centre from which depends the destination aerodrome.

The message is not transmitted, by the CIV or the ACC to other recipients that only in case when the aircraft landed on another aerodrome than the aerodrome indicated in the flight plan.

The message is addressed then to:

• The destination aerodrome indicated in the FPL

• To the ATS organisms in charge of each of airspaces that, according to the FPL, the aircraft should have performed overflight if it had not been rerouted.

Upper And Lower Airspace Limit

The upper airspace extends vertically from flight level 245 to unlimited.

The users are informed upon the conditions of application or modifications of application, of these classes to the different types of ASECNA airspaces (ATS route, FIR, UIR, CTR, TMA) through the publication of aeronautical information.

Terminal Control Areas

The lower limit of a terminal control area is set to a height of 300 meters (1000 feet) at least above the ground or the sea.

Control Zones

The control zone extends to 6,5 Nautical Miles at least from the center of the concerned aerodrome or aerodromes toward any possible directions for approach.

Classification Of Airspaces

- Classes of airspaces in force within ASECNA FIRs are class A, D and G.

- Terminal control areas (TMA) are class A above flight level 145 and class D below flight level 145.

- Control Zones (CTR) are all class D.

- Form ground/sea to flight level 145 and outside the terminal control areas (TMA) and control zones (CTR), airspaces within ASECNA FIRs are class G.

- From flight level 145 to flight level 195 all ATS routes are class A. Outside ATS routes and outside terminal control areas, airspaces are Class G.

- From flight level 195 to unlimited, all the airspaces within ASECNA FIRs are class A.

- Conditions applicable to flights operating within the classes of airspace in force in ASECNA FIRs are in accordance with the Table in Appendix 4 of ANNEX 11 to the Chicago Convention.

- In accordance with the ICAO Regional Supplementary Procedures in force (DOC 7030), a bilateral radio contact is obligatory for all flights (IFR and VFR) within ASECNA FIRs.

- The VMC conditions requirements are those mentioned in the Table 3.1 of Chapter 3 of ANNEX 2 to the Chicago Convention (Rules of the Air).