{"id":198,"date":"2014-06-19T19:28:47","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T19:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/19\/do-you-know-what-the-gota-is\/"},"modified":"2019-01-03T16:58:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T16:58:57","slug":"do-you-know-what-the-gota-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/do-you-know-what-the-gota-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Know What The \u201cGOTA\u201d Is? Changes For You North Atlantic Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New Oceanic Entry Points<\/strong><br \/>\nWith the removal of the Fish Points and other long-known waypoints, Gander has created a completely new list of Oceanic Entry Points (OEPs). They start at AVPUT in the far north and run down to SUPRY. The image below shows some the OEPs highlighted in yellow.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/Nat_blog1.PNG\" alt=\"Nat blog1\" \/><\/div>\n<p><strong>Changed Blue Spruce Routes<\/strong><br \/>\nThe southern Blue Spruce Routes (for reduced Nav capability) now run as follows:<br \/>\n\u2022 OZN-59N50W-ALTOD-PRAWN-YDP<br \/>\n\u2022 OZN-59N50W-CUDDY-PORGY-HO<br \/>\n\u2022 OZN-58N50W-HOIST-YYR<\/p>\n<p><strong>More information<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 Refer to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navcanada.ca\/en\/Pages\/default.aspx\">Nav Canada AIC 20\/14<\/a> for the full list and for complete information about the change.<br \/>\n\u2022 New Jeppesen North Atlantic Plotting Charts, 33rd Edition, are available and reflect the GOTA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: right;\" alt=\"iStock 000023232334Small\" src=\"images\/iStock_000023232334Small.jpg\" height=\"168\" width=\"250\" \/>Thursday, 29 May 2014, <strong>Gander Control<\/strong> implemented a number of changes in their airspace on the Canadian Seaboard that affect the structure and design of NAT Tracks and Oceanic Flight Planning with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>In conjunction with formation of the Gander Oceanic Transition Area (GOTA), additional fixes will be incrementally added near the Gander flight information region (FIR) domestic\/oceanic boundary over the next two years. These fixes will be aligned to accommodate half-degree track spacing associated with the Reduced Lateral Separation Minimum (RLatSM) initiative scheduled to begin within the North Atlantic (NAT) Region in 2015.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Removal of the Fish Points<\/strong><br \/>On 29 May, the following waypoints <strong>were deleted<\/strong>: <br \/>URTAK, BANCS, RONPO, COLOR, NOVEP, VIXUN, LOGSU, KOBEV, CYMON, DENDU, DOTTY, CRONO, HECKK, REDBY, CARPE, STEAM, OYSTR, VALIE, SCROD, and LOACH<\/p>\n<p><strong>Introduction of Gander Oceanic Transition Area<\/strong><br \/>Because of new ADS-B coverage in the area between Canada and Greenland, the boundary between Domestic and Oceanic airspace is being shifted around 175nm to the east, creating a new Oceanic Transition Area known as GOTA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>New NAT Track design \u2013 Eastbound<\/strong><br \/>Currently, NAT Tracks have an anchor point and an Oceanic Entry Point (OEP) \u2013 like <strong>VIXUN LOGSU 49N50W<\/strong>. Starting 29 May, the Track will be built using only an OEP and a 50W point \u2013 in this example <strong>JANJO 49N50W<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>New NAT Track design \u2013 Westbound<\/strong><br \/>A westbound NAT Track used to run 50W \u2013 Oceanic Exit Point \u2013 Landfall, for example <strong>54N50W CARPE REDBY NAR123A<\/strong>. As of 29 May, there is a 50W point and a dedicated Oceanic Exit Point, then straight into either FPL route or a NAR. Example, <strong>53N50W RIKAL NAR302D<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[115],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-jeppesen-north-atlantic-plotting-chartsgander-controlgotanav-canada-aic-2014blue-spruce-routes-oceanic-entry-pointsfish-pointsoepsnat-trackgander-oceanic-transition-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671,"href":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aircrewacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}