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Overview Keflavík International Airport is Iceland’s primary international gateway and the main hub for long-haul and transatlantic operations across the North Atlantic. Located approximately 50 km southwest of Reykjavík, Keflavík serves as a strategic midpoi...

Overview Reykjavík Airport (BIRK) is Iceland’s primary domestic airport and serves as a major hub for regional operations across Iceland, Greenland, and the North Atlantic region. Located close to central Reykjavík, BIRK handles domestic scheduled services, a...

Overview Akureyri Airport (BIAR) is the main airport serving Akureyri and northern Iceland. The airport supports domestic scheduled flights, regional services, general aviation, air ambulance operations, training flights, and occasional international or chart...

Overview Vágar Airport (EKVG) is the main airport serving the Faroe Islands. Located on the island of Vágar, the airport supports scheduled passenger flights, regional services, business aviation, helicopter operations, search and rescue activity, and occasio...

CDM (Collaborative Decision Making) manages the flow of departures so that runways, sectors and destination airports are not overloaded. In BIRD it is used at BIKF, BIRK, BIAR, BGGH, BGSF and EKVG. Two parts PartWhat it doesWho uses it A-CDM (CDM plugin)Sequ...

These procedures are for DEL, GND and TWR. Follow them in full unless traffic is very light. A CTOT must always be followed. Start CDM for the airport first. See Starting CDM & handing over master. BIRD runs CDM with real mode off. The EOBT is never copied int...

These procedures are for APP and CTR controllers covering an airport top-down. If your workload allows, use the Expanded CDM Procedures instead. Start CDM for each airport you cover first. See Starting CDM & handing over master. The two rules A CTOT must alwa...

Each CDM airport needs exactly one master. Only the master calculates TSATs and can set manual CTOTs. Everyone else runs as slave. Who is master The lowest position online at the airport: DEL → GND → TWR → APP/CTR. BIKF_DEL, BIKF_TWR and BIKF_APP online: BIKF...

Type these in the EuroScope command line. Replace BIKF with your airport, and the runway with the one in use. CommandWhat it doesWho .cdm master BIKFBecome CDM master for the airportLowest position .cdm slave BIKFGive up master before a handover or logging o...

These are the values CDM uses at each BIRD airport. Departure rates and taxi times come from the BIRD install pack; arrival rates are set on the vIFF dashboard. AirportRunwaysDepartures/hrDepartures/hr (LVO)Taxi time (min)Arrivals/hr BIKF01/19, 10/2826 singl...

Standard CDM phraseology for BIRD. Replace the callsign, route and times with the real ones. Getting the TOBT ATC: "ICE123, report your target off-block time." Pilot: "Target off-block 1420, ICE123." If the pilot does not know the term: "ICE123, when will yo...

Bad weather lowers how many aircraft an airport can handle. Use CDM measures only when demand is higher than the reduced capacity. 1. Check demand first In light traffic, bad weather alone is not a reason to regulate. Normal spacing, holding and coordination ...

Departing from BIKF, BIRK, BIAR, BGGH, BGSF or EKVG? These airports use CDM (Collaborative Decision Making) to give every flight a fair start-up time and avoid queues at the runway. The short version File your flight plan with a realistic off-block time (EOBT...

Setup Install the latest BIRD package. Check that CDM.dll, CDMconfig.xml, rate.txt, taxizones.txt and colors.txt are in BIRD\Plugins. Do not replace them with your own versions. In OTHER SET → Plug-ins, check that CDM Plugin is loaded. If not, click Load and ...

Departing from BIKF, BIRK, BIAR, BGGH, BGSF or EKVG? These airports use CDM (Collaborative Decision Making) to give every flight a fair start-up time and avoid queues at the runway. The short version File your flight plan with a realistic off-block time (EOBT...

A one-page quick reference for BIRD controllers. Each section links to the full page. Before and during your session Book your position. vIFF capacity scenarios only see bookings. Select departure runways in the runway dialog. Lowest position becomes master: ...