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Old 22nd August 2008 | 08:42
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I believe some airports that suffer consistently long periods of cold weather publish approach charts that are 'corrected' down to a nominal temperature and that this cold temperature is published on the chart
Personally I have not come across any of those already corrected charts (not using Jepp Charts though). But I know that at some airports with very low temperatures during winter period the controllers give you clearances to already temperature corrected values (I think Helsinki is one for example).

But to be honest - I would not count on that. We always correct the values ourselves and advise ATC accordingly if needed. I remeber we had some problems doing that in Kasakhstan; ATC always cleared us to the lower, not corrected altitudes, and complained if we did not comply . And they did not even understand why we used corrected values. A short visit of one of our liason pilots to that ATC unit solved the problem.
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