Minimum Safe Altitude (MSA)

1 Introduction

Abstract Minimum Safe Altitude is the lowest altitude providing a minimum clearance
of 1000 ft under conditions of standard temperature and pressure above all
objects located within a search area either side of the flight path.
The functionality 'Minimum Safe Altitude (MSA)' can consider the minimum
altitude over all terrain, and optionally man-made obstacles.
MSA calculations are performed based on either 'Minimum En-route
Altitude' (MEA) or 'Minimum Off-route Altitude' (MORA). MSA calculations
are particularly helpful for Data Maintenance staff involved in predefined
route building.

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Affected Modules The feature affects following products and services:

and Features
• Interactive Flight Planning
• Lido Aeronautical Database

Prerequisites / Before you start, verify that:

Before You Start
• Decision is made if MSA functionality shall be used with or without
obstacle database.
• Option 'MEA' or 'MORA' is chosen and set up in configuration file.
• Standard settings for corridor width and vertical clearance are set up
in configuration file.

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