Middle East Regional Air Route Traffic Control Center

 Scope
 Area of Coverage
 Operating Frequencies
 Responsibilities and Limitations
 Qualifications
 Credits

Scope

This project was proposed to ensure continuous air traffic control coverage for enroute traffic amongst the
XM countries. It is to establish a safe uninterruptible flow and reduce conflict amongst traffic traversing
the XM Regional control area and will be treated as an Air Route Traffic Control Center (ARTCC).

Area of Coverage

The newly introduced sector will cover the following countries: Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria as
displayed in Figure 1.

Figure 1

Operating Frequencies

There are two assigned frequencies to cover the Sector when active, one identified as Primary and a
back-up frequency is used when a conflict in frequencies is met.

Primary Frequency is: 124.10 MHz (123.550 MHz is not an accepted frequency for ARTCC)

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Secondary Frequency is: 133.20 MHz

Responsibilities and Limitations

Approved controller manning this OXMF_CTR position is responsible to establish two-way contact with
adjacent active sectors CTR-CTR or CTR-APP as traffic mandates these requirements. In addition, all
established Letters of Agreements are in effect and should be honored at all times with no exceptions. All
published IVAO Rules and Regulations should be followed as well. This includes but not limited to
avoiding restricted airspace, establishing a safe enroute path to all IFR traffic and compliance by all IFR
traffic to follow RVSM.

 This position is expected to be on a 2-month evaluation-basis for assessment by IVAO HQ ATC

Operations review its performance and viable continuation or dissolvement.
 The interim 2-month evaluation period, is to be covered by qualified XM Controllers.
 Once an active Country ACC position is active, all countries responsibilities are automatically
transferred to the active ACC positon. Positive confirmation is to be established with proper
handover messages by using IVAO Aurora private chat messages.
 This OXMF_CTR Sector
 An amendment to this issuance will be issued if IVAO HQ ATC Operations approves the
continuation of this project beyond the 2-month evaluation period.
 Updates to this release is to be published with a running version on XM IVOA page.

Qualifications

During this evaluation phase and going forward, all interested XM controllers should have a minimum of
an APC rating as a controller and a Private Piot rating. Proper training and evaluation is to be followed in
advance to manning this OXMF_CTR ARTCC position by utilizing approved IVAO training application and
tools.

Credits
Document created by: Ahmad Dayeh on 8th of August, 2020
Reviewed by: George Hamaty on 15th of August, 2020
OXMF_CTR Project briefing Version 0.1