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Air Traffic Management

Procedures for Air Navigation Services

This edition incorporates all amendmentsapproved by the Council prior to 30 June 2001and supersedes, on 1 November 2001,all previous editions of Doc 4444.

International Civil Aviation Organization

Doc 4444ATM/501

Fourteenth Edition — 2001

AMENDMENTS

The issue of amendments is announced regularly in the

ICAO Journal

and in themonthly

Supplement to the Catalogue of ICAO Publications and Audio-visualTraining Aids

, which holders of this publication should consult. The space belowis provided to keep a record of such amendments.

RECORD OF AMENDMENTS AND CORRIGENDA

AMENDMENTSCORRIGENDANo.DateapplicableDateenteredEnteredbyNo.Dateof issueDateenteredEnteredby

1 28/11/02 ICAO 1 19/4/02 ICAO2 27/11/03 ICAO3 25/11/04 ICAO4 24/11/05 ICAO

(ii)

PANS-ATM

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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FOREWORD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(xi)

1.Historical background. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(xi)2.Scope and purpose. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(xi)3.Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(xi)4.Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(xii)5.Publication of differences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(xii)6.Promulgation of information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(xii)7.Contents of the document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(xii)

CHAPTER 1.DEFINITIONS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-1CHAPTER 2. ATS SAFETY MANAGEMENT .2-1

2.1General. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-12.2Objectives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-12.3ATS safety management activities . . . . . . . . . . . .2-12.4Monitoring of safety levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-12.4.1Collection and evaluation of safety-related data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-12.4.2Review of incident and othersafety-related reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-12.5Safety reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-22.5.1General requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-22.5.2Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-22.6Safety assessments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-32.6.1Need for safety assessments . . . . . . . . . . . .2-32.6.2Safety-significant factors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-32.7Safety-enhancing measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-4

CHAPTER 3.ATS SYSTEM CAPACITY ANDAIR TRAFFIC FLOW MANAGEMENT . . . . . . . .3-1

3.1Capacity management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-13.1.1General. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-13.1.2Capacity assessment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-13.1.3Regulation of ATC capacity andtraffic volumes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-13.1.4Enhancement of ATC capacity . . . . . . . . . .3-13.1.5Flexible use of airspace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-23.2Air traffic flow management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-23.2.1General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-23.2.2Flow management procedures . . . . . . . . . . 3-23.2.3Strategic planning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-23.2.4Pre-tactical planning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-33.2.5Tactical operations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-33.2.6Liaison. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3

CHAPTER 4.GENERAL PROVISIONS FORAIR TRAFFIC SERVICES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1

4.1Responsibility for the provision of air traffic control service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-14.1.1Area control service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-14.1.2Approach control service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-14.1.3Aerodrome control service. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-14.2Responsibility for the provision of flightinformation service and alerting service . . . . . . . 4-14.3Division of responsibility for controlbetween air traffic control units. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-14.3.1General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-14.3.2Between a unit providing aerodromecontrol service and a unit providingapproach control service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-14.3.3Between a unit providing approachcontrol service and a unit providingarea control service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-24.3.4Between two units providing areacontrol service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-24.3.5Between control sectors/positionswithin the same air traffic control unit . . . 4-24.4Flight plan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-24.4.1Flight plan form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-24.4.2Submission of a flight plan . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-34.4.2.1Prior to departure . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-34.4.2.2During flight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-34.4.3Acceptance of a flight plan . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-34.5Air traffic control clearances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-34.5.1Scope and purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-34.5.2Aircraft subject to ATC for part of flight . 4-44.5.3Flights through intermediate stops. . . . . . . 4-44.5.4Contents of clearances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-44.5.5Departing aircraft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-44.5.6En-route aircraft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-44.5.6.1General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4

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