The highest priority flights are filed with the earliest times. The lack of accurate flight planning information reduces the effectiveness of traffic management decisions, thus limiting NAS efficiency. It is important that only one flight plan per flight be entered in the system. Air traffic facilities will normally enter amendments to flight plans for air traffic proposed to depart within 45 minutes of a coordinated reroute. This enables more aircraft to transit a specific locale without increasing complexity and congestion at the higher altitudes.
Participants greatly benefit from having common situational awareness.
Pilots will be briefed not to request higher altitudes thus reducing frequency congestion. The user hotline is a communication tool designed to provide operational information to the NAS community in a timely manner. Either the User or the FAA may request to activate the hotline. The hotline is terminated when the TCA and users decide the conference is no longer beneficial. CCFP was developed to provide a single convective forecast for NAS users.