SPA.ETOPS.115 ETOPS en-route alternate aerodrome planning minima

(a) The operator shall only select an aerodrome as an ETOPS en-route alternate aerodrome when the appropriate weather reports or forecasts, or any combination thereof, indicate that, between the anticipated time of landing until one hour after the latest possible time of landing, conditions will exist at or above the planning minima calculated by adding the additional limits of Table 1.

(b) The operator shall include in the operations manual the method for determining the operating minima at the planned ETOPS en-route alternate aerodrome.

Table 1 Planning minima for the ETOPS en-route alternate aerodrome

Type of approach Planning minima
Precision approach DA/H + 200 ft

RVR/VIS + 800 m

Non-precision approach or

Circling approach

MDA/H + 400 ft

RVR/VIS + 1500 m