{"id":3755,"date":"2018-02-28T09:19:35","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T14:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/?p=3755"},"modified":"2018-05-16T07:01:35","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T11:01:35","slug":"kenya-airspace-threat-downgraded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/kenya-airspace-threat-downgraded\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya airspace threat downgraded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><b>The FAA has revised its warning for Kenyan airspace<\/b> &#8211; the area to \u2018exercise caution\u2019 is now limited <strong><span class=\"s1\">only<\/span><\/strong> to that airspace east of 40 degrees East longitude below FL260 (i.e. the border region with Somalia, and 12nm off the east coast of Kenya). Prior to this, their warning applied to <strong><span class=\"s1\">all<\/span><\/strong> airspace in Kenya below FL260.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Published on 26 Feb 2018, the warning\u00a0maintains the same wording to clarify the type of weapons and phases of flight\u00a0that the FAA is concerned about, specifically:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\">fire from small arms,<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">indirect fire weapons (such as mortars and rockets), and<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">anti-aircraft weapons such as MANPADS.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\">The scenarios considered highest risk include :<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\">landings and takeoffs,<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">low altitudes, and<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">aircraft on the ground.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\">The updated guidance is intended for\u00a0US operators and FAA License holders, but in reality is used by most International Operators including EU and Asian carriers, since only\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/safeairspace.net\/information\/assessing-airspace-risk-levels-and-justification\/\"><span class=\"s2\">four countries<\/span><\/a> currently provide useful information on airspace security and conflict zones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Notam uses FL260 as the minimum safe level, though we would suggest, as usual, that a higher level closer to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/what-altitude-is-safe-enough-to-overfly-a-conflict-zone\/\"><span class=\"s2\">FL300 is more sensible<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">You can read the NOTAM in full on our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/safeairspace.net\/information\/kenya\"><span class=\"s2\">Kenya<\/span><\/a> page on<b>\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/safeairspace.net\/\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>SafeAirspace.net<\/b><\/span><\/a><b>, a collaborative and information sharing tool used by airlines, business jet operators, state agencies, military, and private members of <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/opsgroup2018.com\/\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>OPSGROUP<\/b><\/span><\/a><b>.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FAA has revised its warning for Kenyan airspace &#8211; the area to \u2018exercise caution\u2019&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":3761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,319,876],"tags":[74,57,1058,783,645,111,443],"class_list":{"0":"post-3755","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-briefings","8":"category-news-item","9":"category-safe-airspace","10":"tag-faa","11":"tag-kenya","12":"tag-notam","13":"tag-safe-airspace","14":"tag-safeairspace-net","15":"tag-somalia","16":"tag-unsafe-airspace"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3755"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4657,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755\/revisions\/4657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}