{"id":26155,"date":"2025-01-27T08:38:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T13:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/?p=26155"},"modified":"2025-01-27T09:43:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T14:43:50","slug":"watch-out-for-cape-verde-runway-closures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/watch-out-for-cape-verde-runway-closures\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch out for Cape Verde Runway Closures"},"content":{"rendered":"
Two issues in Cape Verde<\/strong><\/h6>\n
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  1. There are ongoing runway closures at Cape Verde airports that pilots and operators would only know about if they checked the AIP.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. There are Notams published for these airports which do not show up in the FAA Notam search. Again, you would likely only know about them if you checked the Notams<\/a> tab on the AIP website.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    What are the closures?<\/h4>\n

    As of Jan 2025, the runway at GVAC\/Sal continues to be closed on weekday mornings (slightly different times each day) until April 2025. The runway at GVSV\/Sao Pedro is also closed for an hour every morning Mon-Sat. There were similar closures at GNVP\/Praia throughout 2024, but the work here is now complete and the runway is open again.<\/p>\n

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    If you have a Jepp subscription, you might have seem these closures pop up in the NavData Change Notices, but if not, the only place you’ll find them is in the AIP SUPs.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

    Where is Cape Verde?<\/h4>\n

    Here:<\/p>\n

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    GVAC\/Sal and GVNP\/Praia are the two Cape Verde airports most popular for use as mid-Atlantic enroute alternates<\/strong>. GVSV\/Sao Pedro and GVBA\/Boa Vista are the other international airports. But GVAC\/Sal<\/strong> is the one you’d most likely be considering for an enroute alternate, or maybe even a fuel stop, as this is the airport best set up to handle bizav and airline flights – they have a 9843ft runway, are open H24, and have an FBO run by Safeport<\/a> (other ground handlers are also available: Aviation Services Cabo Verde<\/a>, Cabo Verde Express<\/a>, and CV Handling<\/a>).<\/p>\n

    Why are we not seeing these closures on the Notams?<\/h4>\n

    It’s because these are long-term runway closures. They are no longer publishing them by Notam because they exceed the 3-month time limit<\/strong> allowed by ICAO for publication, as per their Notam Improvement Campaign. So once the closures go on for longer than 3 months, they no longer get published as Notams but as AIP SUPs instead.<\/p>\n

    Whilst that’s great, in theory, for de-cluttering the Notam system of old Notams, it does leave pilots and operators having to scratch around to find the information.<\/strong> And in this case, we don’t even have a Notam warning us to check the AIP SUPs as the place to find it.<\/p>\n

    Worse than that, we don’t seem to be getting any Notams at all<\/strong> out of Cape Verde! They publish them on their own website, but for some reason none of them seem to show up on the FAA Notam search – the one that most of us use to check Notams.<\/p>\n

    Bottom line<\/h4>\n

    For any ops involving GVAC or GVNP, watch out for morning weekday runway closures<\/strong> for the next little while, and know that you\u2019ll likely be missing a bunch of Notams<\/strong> – make sure you check the Cape Verde official page<\/a> for updates on both!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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