Civil Municipal - Oct 2023

10 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 4, ISSUE 10 full clearance like you’re used to.” However, Schofield said these procedures are already being used in other regions and even in the North Atlantic in some cases, with controllers simply relaying “cleared as filed.” “For operators working worldwide, the NAT will start to sound more like the Pacific has for a long time,” said Schofield. “The change is just how we hear things and what we should expect.” Experts encourage operators to conduct recurrent international operations training to familiarize their pilots with this change. FlightSafety International is revising its international operations courseware to highlight new procedures. These procedure changes are the result of several years of discussions among stakeholders and regulators,” said Meyer. “The current oceanic clearance procedures made sense in the past, but more modern and dynamic tools are better suited to meet the performance-based navigation and flight operations.