Doc 4444-RAC/O 1/7 Amendment No. 5 12/12/62 AMENDMENT NO. 5 TO THE PROCEDURES for AIR NAVIGATION SERVICES RULES OF THE AIR and AIR TRAFFIC SERVICES SEVENTH EDITION - 1960 Implementation 1 March 1963 This Amendment was approved by the Council on 12 December 1962. It incorporates changes to the provisions concerning approach and aerodrome lighting systems and introduces a new provision concerning the hours of operation of the VASI system. INTERNATIONAL CIVIL, AVIATION ORGANIZATION
Check-List of Amendments to DOC 4444- /501/7 Seventh Edition incorporates all amendments approved by the Council prior to 19 February 1960. Amendment No. 1 to the Seventh Edition approved by the Council on 2 December 1960. Amendment No. 2 to the Seventh Edition approved by the Council on 26 June 1961. Amendment No. 3 to the Seventh Edition approved by the Council on 15 December 1961. Amendment No. 4 to the Seventh Edition approved by the Council on 13 April 1962. Amendment No. 5 to the Seventh Edition approved by the Council on 12 December 1962. Replacement pages - Foreword, pages v and vi Part V, pages 5-3 and 5-4. Date of Applicability 1/8/60 1/7/61 l/ 10/6 1 1/7/62 1/ 11/62 1/3/63
. FOREWORD Tlte Procedures for Air Navigation Scrvicrs - Rules of the Air and Air Trafic Services PANS-RAC are the result of the progressive evolution of. the Procedures for Air Navigation Services -Air Trafic Control PANS-ATC prehared by the Air Traffic Control Conlmittee of the. Internatiollal Con- ference on North Atlantic Route Service Organization Dublin, March 1946. The original PANS-ATC were subse- quently amended and supplemented by the ATC Committee of the International Conference on European-Mediterranean Route Service Organization Paris, April 1946, by the Second, Third and Fourth Sessions of the RAC Division Montreal, December 1946 - January 1947, April-May 1948 and November-December 1950 and from time to time in pursuance of recommendations of the RAC Com- mittees of various regional meetings. The title of the procedures was changed to Proceduies for Air Navigation Serv- ices- Rules of the Air and Air Trafic Services PANS-RAC following the Fourth Session of the RAC Division, so as to make it more descriptive of the material contained therein. Amendment 2 to Annex 2, adopted by Council on 17 November 1953, intro- duced a change in the procedures to be followed in case of air-ground com- nunications failure and required a conse- quential amendment in the PANS-RAC. Action by the First Air Navigation Conference Montreal, February-March 1953 resulted in amendments to the posi- tion reporting procedures and codes, to the holding phraseologies, and to -the radar procedures and phraseologies for use in connection with approach control service. Action by Council on Recom- mendation No. 15 of the AGA Division, Fifth Session Montreal, October- November 1952 resulted in the trans- ference to the PANS-RAC of ,those procedures in the PANS-AGA Doc 4810-GA/559, now cancelled concern- ing the operation of aeronautical ground lights. The Sixth Edition incorporated pro- visions arising from recommendations of the Second Air Navigation Conference Montreal, August-September 1955. The most important of these concerned changes in the criteria relating to the separation minima, aimed at making better use of the available airspace the increase of the distance above cloud for "on-top" flights from at least 150 metres 500 feet to at least 300 metres 1,000 feet coordination between units providitlg area control service for contiguous areas and more detailed descriptions of the objectives and functions of air traffic advisory service and alerting service. Numerous amendments relating to im- provements in detail were also made. Others wcre made as a consequence of amendments adopted to Annexes 2 and 11 following recommendations of the Second Air Navigation Conference. 2.-Severth edition The present edition incorporates pro- visions arising from the recommenda- tions of the Rules of the Air, Air Traffic Services and Search and Rescue Divisions Montreal, October-November 1958. The most significant of these were the introduction of a new flight plan form and major revision of the provisions relating to the submission, content, completion and changing of flight plans and the issuance of clear- ances based thereon. The content of flight plan messages was likewise rc- vised and a standardized content for messages relating to emergency phases was introduced. Changes were effected to the separation minima requirements and provision was made for the use of a nominal 600 metres 2,000 feet minimum vertical separation interval above a prescribed level. The item "Flight conditions" was deleted from the content of a osition report and provision was made for one or more items to be omitted therefrom when certain circumstances obtained. The issuance of clearances to fly maintaining VMC was restricted to specific and limited portions of climb and descent the provisions relating to the transfer of responsibility for control from one ATC unit to another were modified and amplified in detail as were the pro- cedures for approach control service a more detailed description of the ob- jectives and functions of the air traffic advisory service was also effected. Changes and additions were made to the phraseologies for ATS, and a consolida- tion of all provisions regarding flight plans, the flight plati form and instruc- tions for completion of same were intro- duced as an Attachment, for the con- venience of air traffic services. Amendment 1 to the Seventh Edition, approved by Council on 2 December 1960, incorporated provisions relating to the transmission of meteorological in- formation to aircraft in flight, as a result of recommendations made by the Panel for Coordinating Procedures Respecting the Supply of Information for Air Operations First Meeting, Montreal, May-June 1959. It also comprised changes to certain elements of the Air- report and to the AIREP form, made as a result of recommendations of the Fifth Session of the Meteorology Di- vision Montreal, September 1959. Amendment 2 to the Seventh Edition, approved by Council on 26 June 1961, incorporated altimeter setting procedures applicable to air traffic services devel- oped from provisions previously con- tained in Doc 7030 Negiotol Sdpplc- prcntory Procedures and complementary to the altimeter setting procedures in- cluded in the Procedztres for Air Novi- gatiot Services - Aircraft Operatioits PANS-OPS. Amendment 3 to the Seventh Edition, approved by Council on 15 December 1961, incorporated a change to the in- struction for completing Itetn "G" of the flight plan form to cater for flights through intermediate stops. Amendment 4 to the Scventh Edition, approved by Council on 13 April 1962, incorporated an additional provision, under "Alerting service", signifying the action to be taken when reports from an aircraft are overdue. Amendment 5 to the Seventh Edition, approved by Council on 12 December 1962, incorporated changes and additions to the provisions relating to the opera- tion of aeronautical ground lights to meet present day requirements for the use of high intensity runway and approach lighting systems and the Visual Approach Slope Indicator System. The Procedztrcs' for Air Navigation Services PANS do not have the same status as the Standards and Recom- mended Practices. Whilst the latter are adopted by Council in pursuance of Ar- ticle 37 of the Convention on Interna- tional Civil Aviation, subject to the full rocedure of Article 90, the PANS are approved by the Council and recom- mended to Contracting States for world-wide application. PANS-RAC Doc 4441-RAC/501/7 1/3/63 No. 5
vi Rules oj the Air and Air Trafic Services PANS-RAC' Whilst tlie PANS may contain each case, to one single clear expression, them. However, with a view to facil- nlaterial \\rhich may eventually become and in a manner which is the casiest for itating their processing towards imple- Standards or Recommended Practices those whose mother tongue is not Eng- metation by States, they have been pre- SARIJS when it has reached the lish, the elements of information that pared in a language directed towards III stability necessary for may have to be transmitted. Although officers of air traffic services units. adupti011 as such, they may also cotn- prise material prepared as an amplifica- tion of tlie basic principles in the correspotding SARPS, and designed particularly to assist the user in the ap- plication of those SARPS. This latter material will not ecessarily reach a stage at which it would be suitable for When the Standards and liecommended Practices for Air Traffic Services were adopted it was decided not to include the purely procedural material. The ' docu- ment entitled PANS-RAC was, there- fore, retained in order to present in one volune the complete procedures applic- able to the operation of air traffic serv- ices. Such material is, to, a large extent, fluid and liable to relatively frequent change it is therefore an advantage for it to be included in PANS since any anendnerit can be approved by a simple act of Council, whilst an amendment to SARPS is subject to the full procedure of Article 90 which involves a certain lapse of time before the amendment can become effective. 4.-Use ot phraseologies The radar and reporting radiotelephony phraseologies in 3.11.8 and 3.11.10 of Part IX and in Appendix 1 to the PANS-RAC have been developed in the English language for use when the provi- sions of Annex 10, Part 111, 5.3.1.1.2, are applied. The purpose of these radar and re- porting phraseologies is to reduce, in the phraseologies may differ from the ones customarily used by Elglish- speaking personnel, it is very important that they be strictly adhered to when- ever the English language is not the mother tongue of those manning either the aircraft or the ground station. In order to promote improvements in the , phraseologies, States are requested to bring to the attention of ICAO an analysis of any difficulties in application, together with, if possible, proposals for their resolution. Whereas other phraseologies have been translated into French or Spanish in the relevant version of the PANS-RAC, the radar and reporting radiotelephony phra- seologies, by reason of the objective stated above, are not translated and appear only in English in the three ver- sions. However, it is recognized that a set of phraseologies in a language other than English may be required for use when personnel manning both the aircraft and the ground station normally use another language, in which case States concerned should endeavour to make such phraseologies to the greatest extent possible paallel to those in the PANS- RAC. This will facilitate the alternative use by the personnel concerned of both the English phraseologies or the trans- lated phraseologies, as required. The implementation of procedures is the responsibility of States they are applied in actual operations only after and in so far as States have enforced Originally of regional application, the Procedures for Air Navigation Services - Rttles of the Air and Air Trafic Serv- ices have been progressively extended to all ICAO Regions and have applied on a world-wide basis since 1 February 1950. This Seventh Edition of the PANS- RAC is applicable from 1 August 1960. Amendment 1 to the Seventh Edition of the PANS-RAC is applicable from 1 July 1961. Amendment 2 to the Seventh Edi- tion of the PANS-RAC is applicable from 1 October 1961. Amendment 3 to the Seventh Edition of the PANS-RAC is applicable from 1 July 1962. Amend- ment 4 to the Seventh Edition of the PANS-RAC is applicable from 1 Novem- ber 1962. Amendment 5 to the Seventh Edition of the PANS-RAC is applicable from 1 March 1963. The PANS do not carry the status afforded to Standards adopted by the Council as Annexes to the Convention and, therefore, do not come within the obligation imposed by Article 38 of the Convention to notify differences in the event of non-implementation. Nevertheless, the Council considers it desirable as it does in the case of Recommended Practices that differences between the ICAO approved Procedures for Air Navigation Services and national regulations and practices be notified to the Organization and invites States to do so in the same manner as requested for the Standards. 1/3/63 - No. 5
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