Two minimas

[alosaurus]

Where an aerodrome booklet has a table of standard minimas and a recent JAA minimas should you use the higher minima or the JAA minima.

Have done a search for this and couldn't find it.

Thanks in advance.

[ravfooty]

Not sure if this addresses your question but here goes anyway - in my company we have two sets of minima available in the aerodrome booklet, EU-OPs in some, and Jar-Ops in all.

Eu-Ops introduced a slightly different method of calculating RVR, and as such each airline has to decide whether to adopt the new minima or stick with the old JAR-OPs values - you cant pick and choose the best values from each.

Our particular supplier of charts hasn't yet updated all their booklets with Eu-Ops minima so our company has decided to continue using JAR-Ops until all the charts are available.

I believe Eu-Ops allows a 2 or 3 year period of grace for conversion to the new format before all European operators must use the new minima.

Please correct me if my understanding is incorrect or irrelevant :}

[alosaurus]

JAR ops minima is printed on the plate. Is the same true of EU ops minima....as our Jeps don't seem to have the source printed.

[Pontius's Copilot]

If the minima panel on the approach chart is labelled "STANDARD" (top left of the panel) then it uses new version EU-OPS 1.430 (I think), if the panel label is "JAR-OPS" then the minima are calculated using the JAR requirements - which also satisfy the 'old' EU-OPS requirements.

EU-OPS allows an EU-OPS operator to nominate either JAR or EU for its operating minima.

[avionneta]

it is typically a question for which the answer is in your operation manual and nowhere else