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It always amazes me reading these pages to learn of the amount of standardization that there isn't.
in spite of over half a century of ICAO, with IFATCA, EASA, CANSO et al hot on their heels, it's amazing how many ATCOs don't sing from the same hymn sheet. - Oops, sorry, 'management-speak' there.
Notwithstanding the above, still think we should still be using 'millibars'.
in spite of over half a century of ICAO, with IFATCA, EASA, CANSO et al hot on their heels, it's amazing how many ATCOs don't sing from the same hymn sheet. - Oops, sorry, 'management-speak' there.
Notwithstanding the above, still think we should still be using 'millibars'.
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thanks for your reply .i would like to have an official explanation and definition of it.could you please give me a reference or a web site to find it.
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I remember one of our LCE's, (now UCEs), talking about it being introduced a few years ago.
What the U.K. eventually introduced was "Climb NOW FL......."
When I did TWR/APP and in my early days of Area Control, it was generally understood that:- Provided an A/C complied with the lowest levels in a SID's vertical profile, (which provide terrain clearance and keep the A/C within CAS), once airborne it could climb to the highest notified SID altitude.
(on area control, the departure strips were often annotated with 5A or 4A, and a climbing arrow).
I have sat on flight-decks and watched it happen.
The number of empty positioning A/C we accommodated with "we're light today, can we have a higher initial level"? was amazing. - Very rare to hear that today.
I remember one of our LCE's, (now UCEs), talking about it being introduced a few years ago.
What the U.K. eventually introduced was "Climb NOW FL......."
When I did TWR/APP and in my early days of Area Control, it was generally understood that:- Provided an A/C complied with the lowest levels in a SID's vertical profile, (which provide terrain clearance and keep the A/C within CAS), once airborne it could climb to the highest notified SID altitude.
(on area control, the departure strips were often annotated with 5A or 4A, and a climbing arrow).
I have sat on flight-decks and watched it happen.
The number of empty positioning A/C we accommodated with "we're light today, can we have a higher initial level"? was amazing. - Very rare to hear that today.
In the discussions that Zooker alludes to, it was a suggestion as, apparently it is/was a term used by Airbus for input to the FMS, i.e. an unrestricted/unqualified climb instruction. Fortunately, so far it has been ignored.
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Unless you're flying to Ataturk 
, Open Descend is used as well
http://eaip.austrocontrol.at/all/lt/...20LTBA_ist.pdf
AD 2.22 RNAV Procedures
, Open Descend is used as wellhttp://eaip.austrocontrol.at/all/lt/...20LTBA_ist.pdf
AD 2.22 RNAV Procedures
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If you want to hear this "open climb", you have to fly to Brazil. I heared it there a while ago in the GRU FIR... brazilian ATC is still well below standard.... sorry, but that's how it is...
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Open Climb
A few years ago IFATCA and IFALPA were looking for terminology to try and clear up the confusion caused by different sides of the Atlantic using different terminology to cancel the climb/descent restrictions in SID/STARS.
One of the suggestions was “Open Climb” (borrowed from the FMS). IFATCA and IFALPA asked ICAO to review it for implementation and I think CANSO also got involved. CANSO was experimenting with those terminologies in 2010.
It is not in use, but under investigation only, as a solution to the difference in RT used to cancel level restrictions on SID/STAR.
“UNRESTRICTED ….” Was also investigated but was deemed to be not suitable as “RESTRICTED” and “UNRESTRICTED” are too close. (For the same reason we say “AFRIM” and not “AFRIMATIVE” because that is too close to “NEGATIVE”
One of the suggestions was “Open Climb” (borrowed from the FMS). IFATCA and IFALPA asked ICAO to review it for implementation and I think CANSO also got involved. CANSO was experimenting with those terminologies in 2010.
It is not in use, but under investigation only, as a solution to the difference in RT used to cancel level restrictions on SID/STAR.
“UNRESTRICTED ….” Was also investigated but was deemed to be not suitable as “RESTRICTED” and “UNRESTRICTED” are too close. (For the same reason we say “AFRIM” and not “AFRIMATIVE” because that is too close to “NEGATIVE”
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I've heard that ICAO is thinking about introducing specific phraseology for aircraft on SIDs and STARs - it uses the phrases 'open climb' and ' open descend' to indicate that all level restrictions are cancelled.
The proposals are here.
The proposals are here.
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After being in the business for 30 years never heard of it, but it sounds to me that it would be a term used in a testing area of some sort to allow an a/c to do what it wants however I would expect a limit on the climb or descent.
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OPEN CLIMB is daily "standard wording" e.g. in Istanbul FIR - equals to unrestricted climb, as they have a lot of alt constraints on their SID's.
Flying the Bus, and first time hearing this wording used by ATCOs, I was amused, of course.
Maybe they like the AIRBUS and it's modes
Flying the Bus, and first time hearing this wording used by ATCOs, I was amused, of course.
Maybe they like the AIRBUS and it's modes
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