Santa Maria Oceanic FIR




Welcome Santa Maria FIR here you will find information regarding virtual flying in Santa Maria Oceanic Fir.
Portugal VACC provides Virtual Air Traffic Control to Santa Maria Oceanic on the VATSIM network.
All you need to know about virtual flying in Santa Maria Oceanic Fir can be found on this site.

Santa Maria Fir is well known for true real life procedures of Air Traffic Control and for our excellent virtual ATC skills.

Our mission is o provide a realistic Air Traffic Control service all over Portuguese air space, and make the virtual pilot's experience to be as real as it gets' when they fly in Portuguese air space through the VATSIM network.

 

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REF AIP PORTUGAL ENR 1.10.1 PROCEDURES FOR THE SUBMISSION OF FLIGHT PLAN ON SUBPARAGRAPH 1.10.1.2.2 REPLACE TEXT TO READ:
TO IMPROVE THE EFFICIENCY IN SERVICE PROVISION, FROM 45N013W TO 1700N03730W, ALONG SANTA MARIA EAST AND SOUTH FIR BOUNDARIES, ALL OPERATORS SHALL FILE A FLIGHT PLAN TO ENTER AND LEAVE THE LPPO FIR (GND/MSL-UNL) THROUGH THE DESIGNATED FIR BOUNDARY POINTS, AS PUBLISHED IN AIP PORTUGAL  - ENR 6.5 AIR TRAFFIC SERVICE SYSTEM - SANTA MARIA OCEANIC FIR AND ENR 4.3 NAME-CODE DESIGNATORS. 25 SEP 00:00 2008 UNTIL PERM.

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REF AIP PORTUGAL, ENR1.6 RADAR SERVICES AND PROCEDURES, IN SUBSECTION 1.6.8 RADAR SEPARATION, PARAGRAPH 1.6.8.2 REPLACE LAST SENTENCE TO READ:
WITHIN SANTA MARIA RADAR SECTOR, VECTORING WILL BE PROVIDED ABOVE
5500FT, WITH THE FOLLOWING EXCEPTIONS:
-WITHIN THE AREA BOUNDED BY VFL, SOLGI, TIMTO, SOMUL, RODIL, VFL, THE MINIMUM VECTORING FLIGHT LEVEL WILL BE FL120.
-WITHIN THE AREA BOUNDED BY A CIRCLE WITH 25NM RADIUS CENTERED IN SANTA MARIA AIRPORT, VECTORING WILL BE PROVIDED ABOVE 3100FT (MSA). 10 SEP 08:132008 UNTIL PERM.

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22/12/2007 - Notam service available for Santa Maria Oceanic FIR
04/11/2007 - All Oceanic communications taken place on VHF frequencies has been arranged to HF. As the current pilot/controller software doesn’t support HF frequencies a modified decimal system has been arranged where the frequency 12790.0 kHz is entered as 127.90 . Phaseology for the said frequency remains “one two seven nine kilohertz”

Arranged frequencies:

Santa Maria Oceanic ( Prim.) - LPPO_FSS      -   12790.0 KHz   (127.90 MHz)
Santa Maria Oceanic ( Sec. ) - LPPO_1_FSS   -  13207.0 KHz   (132.07 MHz)
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