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NavCanada's Gander oceanic airspace is the busiest in the world. It falls within the shortest great circle distance between North America and Europe. Up to 1,000 flights a day transit the airspace - the vast majority of aircraft are large commercial carriers. Gander ACC airspace handles approximately 400,000 aircraft movements annually.
Gander is home to three NAV CANADA facilities: the Area Control Centre (ACC), Air Traffic Control Tower and International Flight Service Station (IFSS). All three facilities play a key role in ensuring the safe and efficient movement of aircraft in domestic airspace and international oceanic airspace assigned to Canada.
The Gander ACC is responsible for controlling aircraft in the western half of the north Atlantic oceanic airspace, as well as sharing the control of Atlantic Canada's domestic airspace with its other ACC in Moncton.
The international airspace over the North Atlantic is divided up into seven areas. The Gander Area Control Center provides oceanic air traffic control services on behalf of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), from the east coast of Canada to about halfway across the North Atlantic (30 degrees west longitude, between 45 and 65 degrees north latitude).
The Gander oceanic airspace is the busiest in the world. Up to 1,000 flights a day transit the airspace - about half eastbound and half westbound). The Gander ACC uses the Gander Automated Air Traffic System to process all flights within its control area. It is the most sophisticated system of its kind in the world. The Gander ACC employs some 270 staff, 150 of which are Air Traffic Controllers.
The control tower at the Gander airport handles traffic within a 13-km radius. It is responsible for controlling aircraft movement within that control zone - aircraft landing, departing and transiting that airspace up to an altitude of 3000 feet above ground. It co-ordinates the movement of all Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) traffic with its control zone.
The IFSS located at the Gander ACC maintains voice (HF and VHF) communications with aircraft which fall outside radar coverage (beyond 200 nautical miles.)
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FOR MORE INFORMATION
NAV CANADA
Gander Area Control Centre
2C Memorial Drive, P.O. Box 328
Gander, Newfoundland, Canada A1V 1W7
Telephone (709) 651-5228
Facsimile (709) 651- 5235
URL www.navcanada.ca
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