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FRA - Information
Why?
In accordance with Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 716/2014 (Pilot Common Project (PCP)), which requires Free Route Airspace (FRA) to be implemented by 1 JAN 2022, and following the European Route Network Improvement Plan (ERNIP), ANS of the Czech Republic facilitated Free Route Operations under the name FRACZECH.
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2019/123 lays down detailed rules for the implementation of air traffic management (ATM) network functions and repeals Commission Regulation (EU) No 677/2011.
In accordance with Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2021/116 (CP1 Regulation; also repealing Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 716/2014), which requires final FRA, including cross-border FRA with at least one neighbouring state and FRA connectivity with TMAs, to be implemented by 31 DEC 2025, FRACZECH merged with SEE FRA on 23 FEB 2023 and the term FRACZECH ceased to exist from that date.
When?
FRACZECH: H24, from 25 FEB 2021 till 22 FEB 2023.
SEE FRA: H24, from 23 FEB 2023.
Where?
FL95 – FL660 within the lateral limits of sectors W, N, and S (as published in ENR 2.1, AIP of the Czech Republic), excluding TMA Praha.
Part of SEE FRA (FRA in LZBB FL245 – FL660).
Cross-border planning allowed with LZBB, Baltic FRA, SECSI FRA.
What?
Free Route Airspace (FRA) is a specified airspace within which users may freely plan a route between a defined entry point and a defined exit point, with the possibility to route via intermediate (published or unpublished) significant points, without reference to the ATS route network, subject to airspace availability. Within this airspace, flights remain subject to air traffic control. (ERNIP part 1)
How?
See Planning. Rule "one-point-per-FIR" applied.
