Doc 4444 - Procedures for Air Navigation Services - Rules ...

1 Doc 4444-RAC/501 PROCEDURESFORAIR Navigation SERVICESRULES OF THE AIRANDAIR TRAFFIC SERVICESTHIRTEENTH EDITION 1996 This edition incorporates all amendments approved by the Councilprior to 12 March 1996 and supersedes, on 7 November 1996, allprevious editions of Doc 4444- CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION7/11/96(ii)AMENDMENTSThe issue of amendments is announced regularly in the ICAO Journal and in themonthly Supplement to the Catalogue of ICAO Publications and Audio-visualTraining Aids, which holders of this publication should consult. The space belowis provided to keep a record of such OF AMENDMENTS AND issueDateenteredEnteredby16/11/9717/9/97 ICAO25/11/9818/11/98 ICAO34/11/9910/9/99 ICAOPANS-RAC (Doc 4444)(iii)7/11/965/11/98No.

2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTSPagePageFOREWORD ..(vii)PART ..1-1 PART II. GENERAL PROVISIONS ..2-1 Scope of the Rules of the Air and AirTraffic Services Procedures ..2-11. Relationship to other documents ..2-12. Contents of the document ..2-1 Allocation of responsibility in the provisionof air traffic Services ..2-13. Responsibility for the provision of airtraffic control service ..2-14. Responsibility for the provision of flightinformation service and alerting service ..2-25. Division of responsibility for controlbetween air traffic control units..2-26. Responsibility in regard to military traffic ..2-37. Responsibility in regard to unmannedfree balloons ..2-3 General air traffic Services operating practices.

3 2-48. Flight plan ..2-49. Change from IFR to VFR flight ..2-710. Clearances and information ..2-811. Control of air traffic flow ..2-812. Altimeter setting Procedures ..2-813. Indication of heavy wake turbulencecategory and MLS capability..2-914. Position reporting ..2-1015. Reporting of operational and meteorologicalinformation ..2-1116. Forwarding of meteorological information ..2-1317. Air traffic incident report..2-1318. Change of radiotelephony call sign for aircraft ..2-1319. Procedures in regard to aircraft equippedwith airborne collision avoidancesystems (ACAS) ..2-14 PART CONTROL SERVICE ..3-1 Separation of aircraft in the provision ofarea control service ..3-11. General provisions for the separationof controlled traffic.

4 3-1 Vertical separation ..3-12. Vertical separation application ..3-13. Vertical separation minimum ..3-14. Minimum cruising level..3-25. Assignment of cruising levels ..3-26. Vertical separation during ascent or descent ..3-2 Horizontal separation ..3-37. Lateral separation ..3-38. Longitudinal separation ..3-4 Reduction in separation minima..3-229..3-22 Air traffic control clearances ..3-2310. Issuance of air traffic control clearances ..3-2311. Contents of air traffic control clearances ..3-2412. Description of air traffic control clearances ..3-2413. Clearances to fly maintaining own separationwhile in visual meteorological conditions..3-2414. Essential traffic information ..3-2515. Clearance of a requested change inflight plan.

5 3-25 Emergency and communication failure ..3-2516. Emergency Procedures ..3-2517. Air-ground communication failure ..3-27 Other in-flight contingencies ..3-2818. Strayed or unidentified aircraft ..3-2819. Interception of civil aircraft..3-2920. Descents by supersonic aircraft due tosolar cosmic radiation ..3-30 PART CONTROLSERVICE ..4-11. Reduction in separation minima ..4-1 Departing aircraft ..4-12. General Procedures for departing aircraft ..4-13. Minimum separation between departing aircraft ..4-14. Clearances for departing aircraft to climbmaintaining own separation while in visualmeteorological conditions ..4-25. Departing aircraft from parallel ornear-parallel runways ..4-26. Information for departing aircraft.

6 4-2(iv) Rules of the Air and Air Traffic Services (PANS-RAC)7/11/96 PagePage5/11/98No. 2 Arriving aircraft ..4-37. General Procedures for arriving aircraft ..4-38. Clearance to descend subject to maintainingown separation while in visual meteorologicalconditions ..4-49. Visual approach ..4-410. Instrument approach ..4-411. Holding ..4-412. Approach sequence ..4-513. Arriving aircraft to parallel ornear-parallel runways ..4-614. Expected approach time ..4-1015. Information for arriving aircraft ..4-1016. Separation of departing aircraft fromarriving aircraft..4-11 PART V. AERODROME CONTROLSERVICE ..5-1 Functions of aerodrome control towers ..5-11. General ..5-12. Alerting service provided by aerodromecontrol towers.

7 5-13. Suspension of visual flight Rules operationsby aerodrome control towers ..5-1 Traffic and taxi circuits..5-14. Critical positions of aircraft in theaerodrome traffic and taxi circuits..5-15. Selection of runway-in-use ..5-2 Aeronautical ground lights ..5-26. Operation ..5-2 Information to aircraft by aerodromecontrol towers ..5-57. Information related to the operationof aircraft ..5-58. Information on aerodrome conditions ..5-6 Control of aerodrome traffic..5-69. Order of priority for arriving anddeparting aircraft ..5-610. Control of taxiing aircraft ..5-711. Control of other than aircraft trafficon the manoeuvring area ..5-912. Separation of aircraft and of aircraft andvehicles on the manoeuvring area.

8 5-1013. Control of traffic in the traffic circuit ..5-1014. Control of departing aircraft ..5-1015. Control of arriving aircraft..5-1216. Wake turbulence categorization of aircraft andincreased longitudinal separation minima ..5-1217. Authorization of special VFR flights ..5-13 PART Services ..6-11. Radar systems capabilities ..6-12. Presentation of radar information ..6-23. Communications..6-24. Provision of radar Services ..6-25. Use of SSR transponders ..6-36. General radar Procedures ..6-57. Use of radar in the air traffic controlservice..6-98. Emergencies, hazards and equipment failures ..6-149. Use of radar in the approach control service ..6-1610. Use of radar in the aerodrome control service.

9 6-2111. Use of radar in the flight informationservice..6-22 PART VII. FLIGHT INFORMATION SERVICEAND ALERTING SERVICE ..7-11. Flight information service ..7-12. Alerting service ..7-4 PART ..8-11. General ..8-12. Co-ordination in respect of the provision offlight information service and alerting service ..8-13. Co-ordination in respect of the provision ofair traffic advisory service ..8-14. Co-ordination in respect of the provision ofair traffic control service ..8-15. Co-ordination between air traffic Services unitsand aeronautical telecommunication stations ..8-5 PART TRAFFIC SERVICESMESSAGES ..9-11. Categories of messages ..9-12. General provisions ..9-23. Methods of message exchange.

10 9-44. Message types and their application ..9-5 PART X. PHRASEOLOGIES ..10-11. Communications Procedures ..10-12. General ..10-13. Phraseologies ..10-24. Radar phraseologies ..10-23 PART DATA LINKCOMMUNICATIONS (CPDLC) ..11-11. General ..11-12. Communication Procedures ..11-1 Table of Contents(v)7/11/96 PagePage5/11/98No. 2 APPENDICESAPPENDIX for air-reporting byvoice communications ..A1-11. Reporting instructions ..A1-22. Special air-report of volcanic activity form(Model VAR) ..A1-53. Examples ..A1-6 APPENDIX Plan ..A2-11. ICAO model flight plan form ..A2-22. Instructions for the completion of theflight plan form ..A2-33. Instructions for the transmission of afiled flight plan (FPL) message.