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Sponsor: Birmingham Airport Limited

The proposal seeks to establish revised departure routes from runway 15 utilising Performance-based Navigation (PBN) technology, following the extension to the airport’s instrument runway.

Last updated: 20 August 2019

Runway 15 Southerly SIDs Date

Runway 15 Southerly SIDs Decision document (CAA change approval)

Note: BAL suspended its request for approval of the 2 northbound SIDs (as discussed in the Decision document, paragraph 17). BAL has re-designed the SIDs. The aim of the re-design work was to produce aircraft tracks that better reflected the proposals consulted upon. BAL has submitted these re-designs to the CAA (see below).

4 April 2016
Runway 15 Southerly SIDs AIRAC distribution date / AIP amendment 12 May 2016
Runway 15 Southerly SIDs change implementation date 23 June 2016
Runway 15 Southerly SIDs CAA PIR assessment 20 August 2019
Northbound SIDs Date
Northbound SIDs resubmission 18 December 2018
Northbound SIDs Operational Assessment Not available
Consulted vs Proposed SID centrelines Not available
Northbound SIDs Decision document 22 February 2019
Northbound SIDs distribution date/AIP amendment 11 April 2019
Northbound SIDs change implementation date 23 May 2019
Northbound SIDs PIR initiation date Not available
Northbound SIDs CAA PIR assessment Not available

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