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UK Civil Aviation Regulations

These are published by the CAA on our UK Regulations pages. EU Regulations and EASA Access Guides published by EASA no longer apply in the UK. Our website and publications are being reviewed to update all references. Any references to EU law and EASA Access guides should be disregarded and where applicable the equivalent UK versions referred to instead.

CAP 777, defines the responsibilities, purpose and parameters involved when constructing and revising an Air Traffic Control Surveillance Minimum Altitude Chart (ATCSMAC).

The main purpose of the charts are to ensure the appropriate minimum safe levels, in the vicinity of a defined area around the aerodrome (Surveillance Minimum Altitude Area) are promulgated in order to relieve controllers of the responsibility for determining the heights where the sequencing and separation of arriving IFR flights with Primary and/or Secondary Surveillance RADAR is taking place. They also provide pilots with an indication of the minimum altitudes which ATC will allocate when vectoring an aircraft below the published Minimum Sector Altitude (MSA).

Appendix D (ATCSMAC Approval Spreadsheet) is available as CAP777D.

Status:
Current
Review comment:
Update to information on Responsibility, and references to 'sponsor' in Appendix E.
Version:
5
Version date:
21-Sep-2018
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