Tsela Aerospace

COURSE | PANS-OPS Refresher (Recurrent Training)

COURSE DETAILS
Course Name	PANS-OPS Refresher (Recurrent Training)
Date	TBA
Duration	5 days
Location	Sandton. Johannesburg. South Africa
Course Fee	ZAR 35 700 (South African Rands)

OVERVIEW

The Radar Terrain Clearance Chart (RTCC) aka Radar Minimum Altitude Chart, is an aeronautical chart used by Air Traffic Controllers to indicate the lowest altitude to which an ATC may safely vector an aircraft. The chart is usually predicated on a navigation beacon such as a VOR/DME, and establishes areas based on radials and distances to which descent is allowed.

This RTCC is course is designed to provide the knowledge and skills required to design RTCC’s.

COURSE CONTENT

Regulatory background
RTCC design criteria
Obstacle clearance criteria
Application of tolerances

INSTRUCTORS

Mr Tumelo Monyai
Chief Flight Procedure Designer: Tsela Aeronautical, South Africa

`Tumelo Monyai has 21 years aviation experience, having begun his aviation career in the South African Air Force (SAAF) in 1997. He is a qualified Air Traffic Controller (ATC) and holder of a Private Pilot License (PPL). He began his regulatory career at the Aircraft Accident and Incident Investigation Department of the South African Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA), and subsequently moved to PANS-OPS Flight Procedure Design in 2004. He left the SACAA as a Senior PANS-OPS Specialist in 2014 to become the Chief Flight Procedure Designer at Tsela Aeronautical (formerly Ndiza Aviation Solutions). Tumelo is the author of the Civil Aviation Regulations & Technical Standards for PANS-OPS in South Africa, namely CAR & CATS 173 Flight Procedure Design. He remains an adviser to the South African Department of Science & Technology as a member of the RSA Go Team in relation to the extension of EGNOS (European Geostationary Navigation Overlay System) to South Africa, for the implementation of SBAS (Satellite-Based Augmentation System) in South Africa.