If you’ve got some time on your hands, have a look at the Greece-Turkey great NOTAM argument of 2016. This is an almost annual performance, the equivalent of a street argument between two kids.<\/p>\n
If you’re busy, just skip all of it when they appear on your Pre Flight Briefing for Turkey or Greece (which they will).\u00a0Some of the highlights are below.<\/p>\n
Obviously, this is a squabble that would be best for everyone to be kept out of the NOTAM database, but someone started it …<\/p>\n
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LTBB\/ISTANBUL\/SEHIR-CITY A2999\/16 11JUL 0414Z<\/strong>\r\n- NAVIGATIONAL WARNING TO ALL CONCERNED:\r\nTHIS NOTAM IS ISSUED TO CLARIFY THE A1490\/16 LGGG NOTAM ISSUED BY \r\nGREEK CAA.\r\n\r\nAS REGARDS THE GREEK NOTAM A1490\/16, TURKEY DOES NOT ACCEPT THE <\/strong>\r\nDEFINITION OF THE SEARCH AND RESCUE (SAR) AREA WITH REFERENCE TO <\/strong>\r\nATHENS FIR<\/strong>. THE AREA REFERRED TO IN THE SAID GREEK NOTAM FAALLS \r\nWITHIN TURKEY'S MARITIME SEARCH AND RESCUE REGION (SRR) AS DECLARED \r\nTO THE IMO AND INCLUDED IN THE IMO'S GLOBAL SAR PLAN. THEREFORE, ALL \r\nSAR EFFORTS\/ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE TURKISH SRR MUST BE COORDINATED \r\nWITH THE RELEVANT TURKISH AUTHORITIES. 11 JUL 04:00 2016 UNTIL 14 JUL 02:30\r\n2016. \r\n\r\nLGGG\/ATHINAI A1496\/16 11JUL 1201Z<\/strong>\r\n- \r\nFURTHERMORE THE SAID ATHINAI\/ISTANBUL FIR BOUNDARY WAS DEPICTED ON\r\nCHART NUMBER 7 ATTACHED TO THE REGIONAL AIR NAVIGATION AGREEMENT\r\nWHICH WAS REACHED IN THE THIRD REGIONAL AIR NAVIGATIONAL CONFERENCE\r\n(PARIS 1952) AND SUBSEQUENTLY APPROVED BY THE ICAO COUNCIL ON 23\r\nJUNE 1952.\r\nACCORDINGLY, GREECE HAS BEEN ASSIGNED RESPONSIBILITY FOR ALL ATM\r\nSERVICES AND ICAO PURPOSES AS WELL AS FOR SAR OPERATIONS WITHIN\r\nATHINAI FIR\/ HELLAS UIR, AS IS CLEARLY DEPICTED IN THE ICAO\r\nAERONAUTICAL CHARTS, AND IS THE ONLY COMPETENT THEREIN NOT LEAVING<\/strong>\r\nSPACE FOR MISLEADING OR MISINTERPRETATIONS<\/strong>.\r\nCONSEQUENTLY, THE REF (B) TURKISH NOTAM A3009\/16 LTAAYNYX (111139\r\nEUECYIYN JUL 2016) HAS NO GROUND, CANNOT PRODUCE ANY INTERNATIONALLY<\/strong>\r\nLEGAL EFFECT<\/strong> WITHIN ATHINAI FIR\/ HELLAS UIR AND IS CONSIDERED NULL\r\nAND VOID.\r\nTHE ONLY VALID AND EFFECTIVE NOTAM WITHIN ATHINAI FIR\/HELLAS UIR\r\nIS THE REF (A) A1495\/16 LGGGYNYX ISSUED BY GREECE.\r\nEND PART 2 OF 2. 11 JUL 11:55 2016 UNTIL 14 JUL 02:30 2016.\r\n\r\n\r\nLTBB\/ISTANBUL\/SEHIR-CITY A3022\/16 12JUL 0740Z<\/strong>\r\n\r\n- NAVIGATIONAL WARNING TO ALL CONCERNED:\r\n\r\nTHE VIEWS EXPRESSED IN TURKISH NOTAM A3009\/16 REMAIN UNCHANGED AND \r\nIS VALID AND EFFECTIVE. THE GREEK NOTAM A1497\/16 IS NULL AND VOID.\r\n\r\nTURKEY ALSO WOULD LIKE TO EMPHASIZE THAT NO FURTHER EXPLANATION WILL \r\nBE GIVEN TO ANY OBJECTION RAISED TO TURKISH NOTAM A3009\/16. 12 JUL 07:30 2016\r\nUNTIL 14 JUL 02:30 2016. \r\n\r\n\r\nLGGG\/ATHINAI A1497\/16 12JUL 0545Z<\/strong>\r\n\r\n- \r\nACCORDINGLY, GREECE HAS BEEN ASSIGNED RESPONSIBILITY FOR ALL ATM\r\nSERVICES AND ICAO PURPOSES AS WELL AS FOR SAR OPERATIONS WITHIN\r\nATHINAI FIR\/ HELLAS UIR, AS IS CLEARLY DEPICTED IN THE ICAO\r\nAERONAUTICAL CHARTS, AND IS THE ONLY COMPETENT THEREIN NOT LEAVING\r\nSPACE FOR MISLEADING OR MISINTERPRETATIONS.\r\nCONSEQUENTLY, THE REF (B) TURKISH NOTAMS A3012\/16 AND A3009\/16\r\nLTAAYNYX (111250 AND 111139 EUECYIYN JUL 2016) HAVE NO GROUND,\r\nCANNOT PRODUCE ANY INTERNATIONALLY LEGAL EFFECT WITHIN\r\nATHINAI FIR\/ HELLAS UIR AND ARE CONSIDERED NULL AND VOID.\r\nTHE ONLY VALID AND EFFECTIVE NOTAMS WITHIN ATHINAI FIR\/HELLAS UIR\r\nARE THE REF (A) A1495\/16 AND A1496\/16 LGGGYNYX ISSUED BY GREECE. 12 JUL 05:26\r\n2016 UNTIL 14 JUL 02:30 2016. \r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you’ve got some time on your hands, have a look at the Greece-Turkey great…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-briefings"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8651,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions\/8651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}