CAR 602.39 Transoceanic Flights
If you want to fly a single engine aircraft or multi-engine that cannot maintain flight in the event of an engine failure over the high seas:
- pilot needs an instrument rating
- aircraft equipped as per CAR 605.18 + HF radio + hypothermia protection for each person on board
- sufficient fuel as per CAR 602.88 + additional 10%
Reference AIM RAC 11.0 North Atlantic Operations and ICAO NAT Doc 007
NAT MNPS = North Atlantic Minimum Navigation Performance Specifications
- compliance with NAT MNPS airspace is required by all aircraft operating between
- FL285 and FL420 AND
- between 27 N and the North Pole AND
- Oceanic Control Areas: Reykjavik, Gander, New York, Shanwick, Santa Maria
- aircraft must be equipped with two fully functioning long range navigation systems (LRNS). A LRNS may be one of the following:
- one Inertial Navigation System (INS)
- one Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)
- one navigation system using the inputs from one or more Inertial Reference System (IRS) or any other sensor system complying with the MNPS requirement.
- for eastbound and westbound traffic
- south of 70 N, the planned tracks shall be defined at each half or whole degree of latitude and each 10 degrees of longitude
- north of 70 N, the planned tracks shall be defined at latitudes expressed in degrees/minutes and each 20 degrees of longitude
- for northbound and southbound traffic
- the planned tracks shall be defined at latitudes spaced at 5 degrees and whole degrees of longitude
