Somalia Overflight Permits Regulations 2024

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About Somalia | History - Geography

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Somalia, easternmost country of Africa, on the Horn of Africa. It extends from just south of the Equator northward to the Gulf of Aden and occupies an important geopolitical position between sub-Saharan Africa and the countries of Arabia and southwestern Asia. The capital, Mogadishu, is located just north of the Equator on the Indian Ocean.

Somalia is bounded by the Gulf of Aden to the north, by the Indian Ocean to the east, by Kenya and Ethiopia to the west, and by Djibouti to the northwest. Somalia’s western border was arbitrarily determined by colonial powers and divides the lands traditionally occupied by the Somali people.

Somalia is a country of geographic extremes. The climate is mainly dry and hot, with landscapes of thorn bush savanna and semidesert, and the inhabitants of Somalia have developed equally demanding economic survival strategies. Apart from a mountainous coastal zone in the north and several pronounced river valleys, most of the country is extremely flat, with few natural barriers to restrict the mobility of the nomads and their livestock. The Somali people are clan-based Muslims, and about three-fifths follow a mobile way of life, pursuing nomadic pastoralism or agropastoralism.

The Given Below Information Is Extracted from the Somalia AIP

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Procedures For Submission a Flight Plan

Because of the great difficulties of Search and Rescue operations within Somalia, the pilot is strongly advised, regardless of his formal obligations, to file a Flight Plan for every flight. At aerodromes which are not manned by the Flight Information Services for Somalia (FISS). The Flight Plan should be filed with ATS Reporting Officer, if established or the nearest ATS Unit by telephone or over the Radio (VHF or HF). In this way, the general intentions regarding the flight will be known, or will ultimately become available to Air traffic Services, and could be used as a basis for any Search operations that might become necessary.

A pilot MUST file a Flight Plan:

• If intending to fly in controlled airspace

• If intending to fly an aircraft operating as a public

• transport aircraft under VFR or IFR

• If wanting to fly across an international border

• If departing from aerodromes manned by FISS

• If intending to fly in IFR

Note: The Air Traffic Services Unit may, at their discretion, exempt the Commander of an aircraft in respect of an intended flight which is to be made in a local flying area within a radius of 30NM and in which the aircraft will return to the aerodrome of a departure without making an intermediate landing.

How To File A Flight Plan

Flights from Aerodromes on the Aeronautical Fixed Telecommunication Network (AFTN).

Except when other arrangement have been made for submission of repetitive flight plans, the pilot should complete and sign the Flight Plan form (ICAO format) and submit it to the ATS Unit at the aerodrome. (By local arrangement at large aerodromes, the operator’s competent representative may file the Flight Plan on behalf of the pilot.)

Flight Plan should be filed at least 60 minutes before departure or at most 120 HRs before EOBT unless arrangement have been made for submission of a repetitive Flight Plan which shall be activated by providing supplementary information before departure.

Airborne Flight Plans

Where it has not been possible to file a flight plan on the ground, or where conditions make such an action necessary, a Flight Plan may be filed in the air with any ATS unit. Any desired operator’s address should be given by beginning with the words “I wish to file an airborne flight plan.”

Acceptance Of A Flight Plan

The first ARO receiving a Flight Plan, or change thereto, shall:

I. Check it for compliance with the format and data conventions

II. Check it for completeness and, to the extent possible, for accuracy.

III. Take action, if necessary, to make it acceptable to ATS

IV. Check it for compliance with the national requirement as entry flight clearance as required

V. by the Civil Aviation Authority for the region where the airport is located.

Cancellation of IFR Plan in Controlled Airspace

If a pilot has begun a flight in controlled airspace under IFR Flight Plan, he may decide that on entering VMC he will cancel, it must be emphasized, however, that a pilot cannot exercise this choice in a controlled airspace, if ICAO SARPs prohibit.

In controlled airspace where the exercise of the pilot’s choice is possible, pilots may cancel IFR Flight Plans by notifying the ATS Unit concerned, provided that they are then operating in VMC. An IFR Flight Plan may be cancelled by transmitting the following message “A/C identification)- cancel IFR Flight Plan.”

ATC cannot approve or disapprove cancellation of an IFR Flight Plan, but when in possession of information along the route of the flight, will advise the pilot accordingly in the following manner “IMC reported (or forecast) in relation to other IFR traffic.

The fact that a pilot reports that he is flying in VMC does not itself constitute cancellation of IFR Flight Plan and unless a definite cancellation of the IFR Flight Plan, the flight will continue to be regulated in relation to other IFR traffic.

Through Flight Plans

Through Flight Plans may only be filed where;

a) In the course of the proposed flight, it is not intended that the aircraft will cross the boundary of Mogadishu Flight Information Region.

b) Where the aerodromes of intended intermediate landing is/are not on the AFTN.

c)Where the time spent on the ground at any intermediate place of landing is not expected to be in excess of 60 minutes.

When a through Flight Plan has been filed, the portion of the plan for each segment of the flight will be active for ATS purposes only when the appropriate ATS Unit has received a message announcing departure from the previous point of landing indicated in the Flight Plan.

If an ATS unit is established at the aerodrome of departure, the following information shall be passed to that unit before departure on each segment of the flight, except the first segment.

i. Either confirmation of the relevant part of item 15 of the Flight Plan using the phrase “TRU PLAN VALID”; or amendment of the relevant part of item 15

ii. Number of persons on board

iii. Endurance

If no ATS unit is established at the aerodrome of departure, a departure message including items (ii) and (iii) above shall be sent by radio to the ACC as soon as possible after departure.

Booking Out And Booking In

Before making a flight, in a local flying area within a radius of 30 nm from an aerodrome manned by the FISS, a pilot must notify the Air Traffic Service Unit of the intended flight, and obtain exemption from the requirement of submitting a Flight Plan. The information thus given to the ATS Unit will not be sent to any other unit.

Where a “SARTIME” has been entered in Item ‘18' of a Flight Plan, the pilot is responsible for notifying his whereabouts at, or before, the time of expiry of the “SARTIME”, unless the flight to which the Flight Plan refers has already been completed and the Flight Plan closed with an Air Traffic Control Service Unit. Notification of arrival shall be made to the Reporting Officer where such exists or by any other means possible. If a radio-telephony report landing or imminent landing is acknowledged by an Air Traffic Service Unit, then no confirmatory message is required. A pilot must ensure before departure that communication links exist, and can be used, to notify arrivals before entering a “SARTIME” on the Flight Plan.

A pilot who has given notice of his intended arrival at any aerodrome is responsible whether or not a “SARTIME” has been included in the Flight Plan, for notifying the air Traffic Control Service Unit, or the appropriate authority at that aerodrome of any change in destination or estimated delay in ETA of 45 minutes or more.

If a SARTIME is not included in a Flight Plan terminating at an aerodrome which is not manned by FISS search and Rescue action will not be taken unless information is received which casts doubt

An Operator Shall, Prior To Departure

a) Ensure that, where the flight is intended to operate on a route or in an area where an RNP type is prescribed, the aircraft has an appropriate RNP approval, and that all conditions applying to that approval will be satisfied.

b) Ensure that, where operation in reduced vertical separation minimum (RVSM) airspace is planned, the aircraft has the required RVSM approval.

c) Ensure that, where the flight is intended to operate where an RCP type is prescribed, the aircraft has an appropriate RCP approval, and that all conditions applying to that approval will be satisfied.