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🎅🏼 EFRO - Fly and See Santa

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IATA ICAO Charts
RVN EFRO Finland AIP - EFRO

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There will be full-staffing for Rovaniemi during the event:

Logon code Call sign Frequency Responsibilities
EFRO_DEL ROVANIEMI DELIVERY 118.525 En-route clearance
EFRO_TWR ROVANIEMI TOWER 118.700 All ground movement and clearances on the Runway
EFRO_APP ROVANIEMI RADAR 129.900 Rovaniemi Terminal Area
EFRO_R_APP ROVANIEMI ARRIVAL 118.600 Arrivals below 5000 FT

Arrivals

Holding Procedures

We try our best to minimize holding during the event.

  • Pilots shall be prepared for non-standard holding procedures
  • ATC will give the inbound heading, turn direction and inbound time
  • Inbound timing for a standard hold is one minute when at or below FL140 and one and a half minutes when above FL140.
  • Pilots may view the planned holding locations in our Map Service.

Recommended YouTube Holding Tutorials:

Re-routing

  • Pilots are requested to use our route planner at fss.vatsim-scandinavia.org
  • If you don't find a route for your departure location or if your route is invalid, pilots shall be prepared for re-routing issued by ATC

If you are unsure of a given re-route, please don't hesitate to ask ATC for the complete route by text.

  • Mandatory routes to Rovaniemi are shown in our Map Service.
  • ATC may give a tactical re-route for better sequencing even if pilot has used a correct route

Arrival Slots

  • All arrivals to Rovaniemi are required to:

    1. have a valid slot booking, or;
    2. have received a non-event release by ATC

  • Don't worry if you don't have a slot. There will be around 10 non-event releases every hour!

    • Pilots who don't get a chance for a slot are diverted to another airport (our suggestions are EFOU, EFKT or EFHK)

  • Pilots are requested to plan their departure time in order to arrive during their booked slot time

Approach

  • Runway 21: ILS-Z (2500 FT)
  • Runway 03: RNP (2500 FT)

Arrivals will be vectored to localizer (ILS) or to final approach course (RNP).

Say your Call Sign ONLY when contacting Rovaniemi Arrival (EFRO_R_APP). Example: "Rovaniemi Arrival, Finnair 1"

Landing

  • Arrivals will be transferred to Tower on final (4 - 10 NM)
  • Pilots are kindly requested not to initiate a go-around unless really necessary
    • A landing clearance can be issued at latest when passing the runway threshold
    • TWR may give a landing clearance when there is reasonable assurance that the runway will be free at the time when the aircraft passes the runway threshold

In case of a go-around, fly runway heading and climb to 4000 FT unless otherwise instructed by ATC.

Please, expedite vacating the runway after landing and taxi across the holding point line! (see green area in image below)

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  • Plan to vacate via H or B (Runway 21) and taxi across the holding point line (green area)
    • If Runway 03 in in use, plan to vacate via H, C or D
  • Hold short of taxiway T after vacating
  • DO NOT vacate to the north-west side of the runway (military apron)



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