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18.1.3.2. US National Airspace is defined as airspace controlled by the FAA. This
airspace is defined geographically as overlying the 50 United States, the District of
Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the several territories and
possessions (ex. Marianas Islands, etc.) of the United States. By Presidential
proclamation in December 1988, this airspace also overlies the waters up to 12 miles
from the coast.
18.1.3.2.1. IAW ICAO Article 12 and Annexes 2 and 11, the United States has
accepted responsibility for providing air traffic services within airspace overlying
the high seas beyond 12 miles from the coast (also known as international
airspace). These flight information regions of international airspace are: Oakland
Oceanic, Anchorage Oceanic, Anchorage Continental, Anchorage Arctic, Miami
Oceanic, Houston Oceanic, and New York Oceanic. Although the FAA in these
areas is providing air traffic services, they are considered international airspace
and ICAO rules apply.
18.1.4. Finding Current Information and Procedures. Changes to ICAO standard
procedures can be numerous and may even vary from airfield to airfield within a country.
FLIP Area Planning (AP) generally contains a comprehensive consolidation of
procedural requirements, but a thorough review of all applicable preflight planning
sources is essential to ensuring compliance with ICAO, host nation, and USAF
requirements. Other preflight planning sources include, but are not limited to: NOTAMS,
The ASRR, Specific Theatre Information Files (STIF), and MAJCOM/Unit Flight Crew
Information File (FCIF).
18.1.5. Terminal IAPs. There are many different kinds of approaches published in the
DoD FLIP books for regions outside the United States. You may find approaches
designed using U.S. TERPS at overseas bases. You may also find approaches designed
under the civil PANS-OPS criteria. Or you may find procedures that use host nation
criteria that are different from PANS-OPS. Aircraft executing maneuvers other than
those intended by the host nation approach design could exceed the boundaries of the
protected airspace or may cause overflight of unauthorized areas. All ICAO procedures
must be flown as they are depicted.
18.1.5.1. NOTE: For procedures designed in accordance with host nation or PANS-
OPS criteria, the original foreign procedures may have been modified or edited as a
result of the DoD TERPS review, which is conducted before these procedures are
published in DoD FLIP.
18.2. Definitions. Here are a few ICAO definitions that differ from those commonly used in
the United States.
18.2.1. PANS-OPS. PANS-OPS is a two-part document. The first volume is for pilots,
and is similar to the FAA’s AIM. The second volume contains the ICAO “TERPS.” The
document is intended for the use of the international civilian aviation community, not the
military. There have been a number of editions of PANS-OPS published since the
creation of the ICAO, each with significant changes in the details of instrument approach
procedure design. This means that you may find approaches in different parts of the
world that have been designed with entirely different rules.