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Reduced Vertical Separation Minima (RVSM)<\/strong> is required throughout the NAT region. RVSM applies between FL290 and FL410, which matches the dimensions of the NAT HLA (FL285-FL420).<\/p>\n Without RVSM<\/strong><\/span>, you can only cruise at a level outside the FL290-FL410 band. However, ATC will generally approve a climb\/descent through RVSM airspace to reach your cruising level. This is different to Europe, where you can’t do this.<\/p>\n ATC may approve you to fly within RVSM airspace [NAT Doc 007, 1.6], if you:<\/p>\n 1. Are a delivery flight, or Contact the first Oceanic Centre by phone 4-12 hours before you plan to enter. If you get approval, note it in Field 18 on the Flight Plan. (eg. RMK\/NON-RVSM APPROVED BY GANDER 23MAR2024). HLA approval is required in all cases. Use the call “Negative RVSM” on initial contact with ATC.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Comment below<\/a><\/strong>. Sadly (for us), we enjoy digging into this stuff. So, post your question<\/a> below and we’ll update this page with the answer (probably quite quickly!)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" No RVSM – Where can we go? You can make a crossing at FL280 or…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":24910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2249],"tags":[21,2250],"class_list":{"0":"post-24918","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-questions","8":"tag-nat","9":"tag-natfaq"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24918","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24919,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24918\/revisions\/24919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2. Did have RVSM approval but returning for repairs, or
\n3. Humanitarian.<\/p>\nThis didn’t answer your question?<\/strong><\/h6>\n
Useful links for more on this …\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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