🎅🏼 EFRO - Fly and See Santa

IATA	ICAO	Charts
RVN	EFRO	Finland AIP - EFRO

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.

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)

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)

Departures

Slots

Departures are not required to have a slot unless flying to ESNQ (Kiruna) or ENTC (Tromso).

Departures to ESNQ or ENTC without a slot may get a non-event release by ATC. There will be around 10 non-event releases per hour.

Re-routing

Rovaniemi Delivery may assign a modified departure route during the en-route clearance. Please be prepared to reprogram your route if necessary. There are mandatory routes to ESNQ, ENTC and flights towards Sweden which you can view in our route planner at fss.vatsim-scandinavia.org. Flights southbound may also be re-routed to avoid arriving traffic.

Target Start-up Approval Time (TSAT)

Pilots may be assigned a TSAT after the en-route clearance. The given TSAT is calculated based on the amount of departures and arrivals to Rovaniemi. The goal of using TSAT is to avoid spending unessessary time at the holiding point when the engines are turned on.

Rovaniemi Delivery will transfer departing traffic to Tower when the TSAT time is reached. If the stands are getting too crowded, departing traffic may need to aborb some delay on the taxiway instead.

Take-off

Departures will be assigned a departure gap by our Flow Managers. Therefore pilots are requested to be ready for departure when reaching the runway holding point in order not to miss the coordinated gap.

Departing traffic are assigned a heading and altitude by Rovaniemi Delivery to be followed after departure.

The Minimum Turning Altitude for Runway 21 is 1030 FT and for Runway 03 1010 FT

Pilots shall initiate the turn towards the assigned heading when above the Minimum Turning Altitude

Do not climb above 4000 FT unless cleared by ATC