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Introduces detailed procedures for handling military helicopters inbound and outbound to Oakey, conducting operations within the Oakey Flying Training Area, and on the manoeuvring area.

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Changes:

  • OK ADC Airspace Jurisdiction.

Additions:

  • Manoeuvring Area Operations
  • Insights to Flying Training Areas, SAAFRs and Transit Areas.
  • ADC and TCU helicopter departure and arrival procedures
  • Processing helicopters operating in LFAs.

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CC: @m-9c for the ADC airpace profile update

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m-9c commented Jan 1, 2026

CC: @m-9c for the ADC airpace profile update

AIRAC 2601 contains update of OK ADC airspace to 3000.

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mattk04 commented Jan 6, 2026

@llamavert thanks for putting this together, this is clearly a lot of work.

From what I can see, the majority of the LFAs actually extend beyond OK TCU's jurisdiction (only L1 and L5 appear to remain completely inside). This may require some coordination rules with the surrounding/overlying enroute sector to obtain traffic information for aircraft operating in the LFAs, since it appears they are just danger areas and not restricted.

The AD2 Supp lists OK TCU's jurisdiction as only the extent of R654A-D which includes SFC to F125, but we've got it listed as SFC to F210. This was obviously grandfathered in before these changes but based on your research, can you see anything which would suggest which is the most correct? Given the nature of the operations expected in the airspace, I'd imagine it would be F125 but I'm not familiar with the area.

I also couldn't find any charts in the AD2 Supp showing the SAAFRs or Transit Areas, just the LFAs and FTAs. Is there one that you have which we could use to develop some resources for our controllers (either in the SOPs or as a vatSys map)?

At the moment, I'm tempted to include the FTAs but leave the LFAs/SAAFRs/Transit Areas out unless we can clarify their dimensions, jurisdiction and use cases a little more.

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@mattk04 Let me reach out inside RAAFv, one of them has designed the gates for willy that ill use in my pr.

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