ATC in Central Africa / FSS stations

[Alexander Cohrs]

Hi guys,

 

looks like this post has been lost during the forum outage. As I believe it's quite useful for our pilots, here it is again, restored from another board.

 

Hi guys,

 

after controlling at Central Africa with 5 out of 5 pilots not calling me, it appears to be a good idea giving an overview about our enroute control stations.

 

Okay, we do have the usual Center stations like Accra Center, Kano Center and so on. You'll see them on all existing traffic tools correctly.

 

Additionally, to give pilots a better service even with limited controller ressources, we have set up three big enroute stations at Central Africa:

 

AFRC_W_FSS, 135.650, covering the western part of Central Africa Division

AFRC_C_FSS, 135.850, covering the central part of Central Africa Division

AFRC_E_FSS, 135.050, covering the eastern part of Central Africa Division

 

This is how it looks like:

 

 

(It's about the brown areas - the green ones show the North African Divison.)

 

All three stations mentioned above provide full top down service. Controllers will also mention in their CI what airspaces they are covering and what runways are active at the major airports. The stations provide full radar coverage at overland areas and procedural control in Oceanic airspaces.

 

The stations show corrently at QuteScoop [Download Link], but unfortunately not at ServInfo and Vatspy - and we don't have any chance to change that. However, now that you know, you'll surely check the ATC list and tune to the correct frequency.

 

Oh, and just to make that complete (although it seldom makes problems), sometimes we also staff AFRC_FSS - without W,C or E in the middle. That is an overall stations covering whole Central Africa, but just above FL145.

 

Looking forward to meet you at Central African skies!

 

Alex