{"id":24204,"date":"2023-12-12T07:46:22","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T12:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/?p=24204"},"modified":"2023-12-13T07:28:27","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T12:28:27","slug":"computer-says-no-why-faa-rvsm-approvals-matter-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/computer-says-no-why-faa-rvsm-approvals-matter-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer Says No: Why FAA RVSM Approvals Matter in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An OPSGROUP member recently received the following message after their N-Reg flight plan was <strong>rejected<\/strong> by Eurocontrol:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-24211\" src=\"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot-2023-12-12-at-12.31.32-1024x111.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot-2023-12-12-at-12.31.32-1024x111.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot-2023-12-12-at-12.31.32-300x33.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot-2023-12-12-at-12.31.32-768x83.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot-2023-12-12-at-12.31.32-1536x167.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot-2023-12-12-at-12.31.32.jpg 1918w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Or in other words <strong>\u2018computer says no \u2013 it seems you\u2019re not RVSM approved&#8230;\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The issue stemmed from something called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/air_traffic\/separation_standards\/naarmo\/rvsm_approvals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NAARMO<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 the North American Approvals Registry and Monitoring Organisation.<\/p>\n<p>This is the agency responsible for monitoring the safe and proper use of RVSM throughout North American airspace including the US, Canada and Mexico. They maintain a list of <strong>every US-registered commercial and turbine GA aircraft approved to operate in RVSM airspace.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It may come as a surprise, but this same list is used across the pond by Eurocontrol (and its monitoring agency).<\/p>\n<p>OPSGROUP has been advised that every three months, Eurocontrol carry out a flight plan audit using the FAA NAARMO list to identify <strong>non-approved aircraft operating in RVSM airspace.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If a registration is flagged, after further consultation, it may be added to a list of aircraft which will have their <strong>flight plans rejected.<\/strong> This was the case above.<\/p>\n<p>Herein lies the problem:<strong> if your aircraft\u2019s RVSM-status is recorded incorrectly on the US NAARMO list, you may find your flight plans getting bounced over in Europe.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If this happens to you, here\u2019s how to fix it.<\/p>\n<h4>Contact NAARMO directly.<\/h4>\n<p>Yep, even though it\u2019s a problem in European airspace <strong>the solution rests with NAARMO<\/strong> back in the US.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll need to figure out why your aircraft doesn\u2019t appear on the FAA\u2019s database, and get that corrected first, before Eurocontrol can <strong>remove your aircraft from their naughty list. <\/strong>Once you get it corrected on the NAARMO database, they are apparently pretty good at sending Eurocontrol a specific notification so they can remove it from their list too (the day they receive the update, or the next working day).<\/p>\n<p>You may not have been intentionally naughty either. There are some quite innocent reasons why this may be case \u2013 usually <strong>missing information<\/strong> related to airworthiness or other overlooked details.<\/p>\n<p>To get in touch with NAARMO directly, use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/sites\/faa.gov\/files\/air_traffic\/separation_standards\/naarmo\/naarmo_poc\/NAARMO_General_Inquiry_Form.pdf\">this form<\/a> and email it to <a href=\"mailto:naarmo@faa.gov\">naarmo@faa.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An OPSGROUP member recently received the following message after their N-Reg flight plan was rejected&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":24212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[209,2230,799],"class_list":{"0":"post-24204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-briefings","8":"tag-eurocontrol","9":"tag-naarmo","10":"tag-rvsm"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24204"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24247,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24204\/revisions\/24247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}