2016 16th Edition: ICAO Doc 4444 – PANS-ATM, Procedures for Navigation Services – Air Traffic Management – International Ops 2024

The 2016 version (16th Edition) of Doc 4444 (Officially “PANS-ATM, or Procedures for Navigation Services – Air Traffic Management) was published in November 2016 by ICAO.

This manual contains critical information for aircrews operating internationally.

Download the original document here (PDF, 6mB), and note:

The 16th edition incorporates the changes in Revisions 1-7 of the previous, 2007 edition.

Feb 15th, 2017 In the first six weeks of 2017 there have been some important changes on the NAT/North Atlantic. These are published in the latest edition of NAT Doc 007, January 2017.

TCAS 7.1: From January 1st, 2017, TCAS 7.1 is required throughout the entire NAT region.
Cruising Level: Effective 2017, you no longer need to file an ICAO standard cruising level in NAT airspace.
Gross Nav Error: is now defined as greater than 10nm (used to be 25nm)
Contingency Procedure: Published January 2017, a new turn-back (180) procedure is introduced – turn back to parallel previous track by 15nm.
Datalink Mandate Exemptions: Announced January 2017, new exemptions for Phase 2B of the Datalink mandate, which will start on December 7, 2017 (FL350-390). Exempt: Tango Routes, airspace north of 80N, and New York OCA.

Feb 15th, 2017: FSB published the full NAT Crossing Guide “My first North Atlantic Flight is tomorrow“.

– What’s different about the NAT, changes in 2017, 2016, 2015, NAT Quick Map
– Routine Flight Example #1 – Brussels to JFK (up at 5.45am)
– Non Routine-Flights: No RVSM, No RNP4, No HF, 1 LRNS, No HLA, No ETOPS, No TCAS, No Datalink – what you can do and where you can go
Take a look.