# Presentation: 738876

## Oakland Air Route Traffic Control Center

**Oakland Air Route Traffic Control Center**
**IPACG 26 Meeting**
**Russian Trans-East Trials **

**Presented By:****	****	****FAA, Oakland ARTCC****	****Airspace and Procedures****	**
**Date:****	****	****May 14-18, 2007**

## Russian Trans-East Trials

**Formerly known as RFE**
**Oceanic Work Group Initiative **
**2006 Paper Trials**
- Indicated Significant Savings
**March 2007 Airborne Trials**
- 32 Aircraft

**Russian Trans-East Trials**

**RTE/Polar Traffic Levels**

**2006 RTE Monthly Relative Demand**

## Russian Trans-East Trial Procedures

- Oakland receives the Upper Winds forecasts at 1800Z and would generate routes to VALDA and BESAT.
- 2. Oakland would email the proposed routes out by 1930Z
- 3.  RTE Trials applied to flights departing KLAX/SFO between 0600Z and 1000Z.
- 3. If an User was interested in flying one of the routes for that evening, prior to 2200Z they would email a request to fly the RFE Airborne Trial for that evening.
- 4. Oakland International Procedures verbally coordinated the flight(s) and routes with the affected facilities and send an email advising the flights for that night.

**Russian Trans-East Trial Procedures**

## Russian Trans-East Trial Procedures cont.

- 5. After the User received the approval email, they would file their Flight Plan on the coordinated routing,
- 6. It was the Users responsibility to obtain a Track Advisory Reservation for the RTE route that they intended to fly.
- 7. If there was a change in the upper winds and the User wanted to change RTE tracks, or the PACOTS Track, they would notify the ATC Facilities of the change.
- 8. After the flight was completed, the User and the affected ATC facilities were requested to provide feedback on the flights

**Russian Trans-East Trial Procedures *****cont.***

## RTE Trial Track Generation Network 

**RTE Trial Track Generation Network **

## March Airborne Trial Summary

|  | Flight Time Saved | Fuel Burn Avoided | Extra Payload Carried |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Overall
(32 Flights ex LAX & SFO) | 202 Min | 17.7 T | 24.4 T |
| Average
(Per Flight) | 6.3 Min | 535 KG | 760 KG |
| Maximum
(Per Flight) | 21 Min | 2.1 T | 4.8 T |

## RTE Trial Feedback

**Aircrew: Flex track routing worked well and helped with separation from *****[6 specified flight numbers]***** all of which stayed on the NOPAC route**
**Aircrew: Trial flex track *****[Company Flight Plan]***** very accurate, nil significant**
**Aircrew: PAZA gave us an unavoidable reroute due to traffic at all levels....**
**Anchorage ARTCC:  Created some traffic situations with crossing traffic on R220**
**Anchorage ARTCC: Difficulty transitioning to Russian Metric Altitudes**
**FAA/NAV Canada:  Identified areas where some of the current PACOTS restrictions could be relaxed**

## RTE Trials Continued

**RTE Trials Continued**

**Plans are being formulated for resuming the Trials.**
**Trials will be expanded to include RTE entry point FRENK**
**Interested Users should contact Oakland Center International Airspace and Procedures at         510-745-3548**

## ACTION BY THE MEETING

**ACTION BY THE MEETING**
**  ****The group is requested to note the information from the RFE trials and support efforts to expand the RFE and Polar Routes.**
**  ****Users are encouraged to participate in the RFE Airborne Trial when they resume.  Anyone interested in participating in the trial should contact the Oakland Center International Airspace and Procedures Office at 510-745-3320.**

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