Need some input on regs in Europe.
Thank you for those links. For you Europeans....Do the controllers there use cold weather MVA maps for approach control? Canada does but the USA does not and that is the major concern that I have here. Pilots on vectors are assurred that the altitude given them is safe but on certain days of the winter they certainly are not. In the US, MVA's are suppose to give at least 1000' clearance from terrain and in mountainous areas 1500'. We have a mountain in our airspace(Mt.Marcy-highest mountain in New York) that our MVA is 7000'. At -30C, at 7000', the aircraft will actually be at about 5650' msl. Mt.Marcy is 5344'. 306' is not acceptable over the Adirondacks. Take away the 200' error that is acceptable to ATC for their Mode C and it might be 106'. I am fighting the FAA to establish Cold Weather MVA maps for the approach controllers and MEA/MIA charts for the Center controllers who clear aircraft into smaller non-towered fields.