{"id":300,"date":"2016-02-23T20:14:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T01:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/?p=300"},"modified":"2016-02-23T20:41:08","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T01:41:08","slug":"caution-wake-turbulence-new-rules-for-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/caution-wake-turbulence-new-rules-for-the-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Caution Wake Turbulence: New Rules for the EU"},"content":{"rendered":"

What Wake Turbulence Category is a B757?<\/strong> That long favoured question by Dispatch Trainers and ATC Instructors will become a thing of the past under new rules slowly being introduced in Europe, where\u00a0the current four (Light, Medium, Heavy, Super) will become six<\/strong>. The first place you will see this happening is at LFPG\/Paris Charles de Gaulle and LFPB\/Paris Le Bourget, from 22 MAR 2016.<\/p>\n

Those six new categories<\/strong> are Light, Medium (with Lower and Upper), and Heavy (with Lower, Upper and Super). The rules are part of the RECAT-EU project, with the intention of squeezing more traffic into busy European Airports by applying more precise turbulence separation rules.<\/p>\n

The separation minima are determined specific to each Aircraft Pair. For example, at the moment, an A330 following a B777 (Heavy behind heavy) requires 4 miles in trail. With the new rules, that is reduced to 3nm<\/strong>. An A320 can now follow 4 miles behind a B777, instead of the current 5nm.<\/p>\n

There are no Flight Planning Changes (continue to use \/L,M,H,J for the ICAO Category). For crews, you’ll notice the smaller separation, but there are no changes to callsigns or pilot obligations – for now.<\/p>\n

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