{"id":8212,"date":"2025-07-28T00:02:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T04:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/?p=8212"},"modified":"2025-07-29T07:58:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T11:58:05","slug":"updated-faa-oceanic-guides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/updated-faa-oceanic-guides\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated FAA Oceanic Guides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The FAA has updated its resource guides for the three big oceanic areas of interest: the North Atlantic, the Pacific, and WAT airspace (West Atlantic \/ Gulf Of Mexico \/ Caribbean). All three have been updated effective July 2025.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These guides are a good starting point for understanding all the essentials of operating in these regions, and include links to all kinds of useful supplemental information around the main topics for each one.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the pics to check them out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>North Atlantic<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/headquartersoffices\/avs\/nat-resource-guide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8214\" src=\"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/NAT-1024x201.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/NAT-1024x201.png 1024w, https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/NAT-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/NAT-768x151.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pacific<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/headquartersoffices\/avs\/pacific-resource-guide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8217\" src=\"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Pacific1-1024x206.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Pacific1-1024x206.png 1024w, https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Pacific1-300x60.png 300w, https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Pacific1-768x154.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>WAT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/headquartersoffices\/avs\/waters-gomex-and-caribbean-resource-guide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8218\" src=\"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/WATRS1-1024x229.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/WATRS1-1024x229.png 1024w, https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/WATRS1-300x67.png 300w, https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/WATRS1-768x172.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>To see a timeline of the <strong>big changes on the NAT\u00a0<\/strong>stretching back to 2015 <a href=\"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/nat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Opsgroup members can download several <strong>NAT guides<\/strong> and a <strong>NAT Plotting &amp; Planning Chart <\/strong>via the Members Dashboard <a href=\"https:\/\/ops.group\/dashboard\/category\/briefings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FAA has updated its resource guides for the three big oceanic areas of interest:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":8213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,20,546,1467],"class_list":{"0":"post-8212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-briefings","8":"tag-faa","9":"tag-north-atlantic","10":"tag-pacific","11":"tag-watrs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8212","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=8212"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28296,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8212\/revisions\/28296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}