• Aeronautical Information Publication (AIP);
• Amendment service to the AIP (AIP AMDT);
• Supplement to the AIP (AIP SUP);
• NOTAM;
• Aeronautical Information Circulars (AIC); and
• Aeronautical charts

NOTAM and the related monthly checklists are issued via the Aeronautical Fixed Service (AFS). All other elements of the products are distributed online at; www.aip.scaa.gov.so

3.2  Aeronautical Information Publication (AIP)

The AIP of Somalia is the official basic aviation document intended primarily to satisfy international requirements for the exchange of permanent aeronautical information and long duration temporary changes essential for air navigation.

AIP Somalia is published in accordance with annex 15 in one volume and is in English language only. Somalia AIP is maintained up to date by the AIS headquarter through all its amendment service.

3.3  Amendment service to the AIP (AIP AMDT)

A brief description of the subjects affected by the amendment is given on the AIP Amendment cover sheet. New information included on the reprinted AIP pages is annotated or identified by a vertical line in the left margin (or immediately to the left) of the change/addition.

Each AIP page and each AIP replacement page introduced by an amendment, including the amendment cover sheet, are dated. The date consists of the day, month (by name) and year of the publication date (regular AIP AMDT) or of the AIRAC effective date (AIRAC AIP AMDT) of the information. Each AIP amendment cover sheet includes references to the serial number of those elements, if any, of the Integrated Aeronautical Information Package which have been incorporated in the AIP by the amendment and are consequently cancelled.

Each AIP AMDT and each AIRAC AIP AMDT are allocated separate serial numbers which are consecutive and based on the calendar year. The year, indicated by two digits, is a part of the serial number of the amendment, e.g. AIP AMDT 1/20; AIRAC AIP AMDT 1/20.

A checklist of AIP pages containing page number/chart title and the publication or effective date (day, month by name and year) of the information is reissued with each amendment and is an integral part of the AIP.

3.4  Supplement to the AIP (AIP SUP)

Temporary changes of long duration (three months and longer) and information of short duration which consists of extensive text and/or graphics, supplementing the permanent information contained in the AIP, are published as AIP Supplements (AIP SUP). Operationally significant temporary changes to the AIP are published in accordance with the AIRAC system and its established effective dates and are identified clearly by the acronym AIRAC AIP SUP.

AIP Supplements are separated by information subject (General— GEN, En-route—ENR and Aerodromes—AD) and are placed accordingly at the beginning of each AIP Part. Supplements are published on yellow paper to be conspicuous and to stand out from the rest of the AIP. Each AIP Supplement (regular or AIRAC) is allocated a serial number which is consecutive and based on the calendar year, i.e. AIP SUP 1/20; AIRAC AIP SUP 1/20.

An AIP Supplement is kept in the AIP as long as all or some of its contents remain valid. The period of validity of the information contained in the AIP Supplement will normally be given in the supplement itself. Alternatively, NOTAM may be used to indicate changes to the period of validity or cancellation of the supplement.

The checklist of AIP Supplements currently in force is issued in the monthly printed plain-language list of valid NOTAM.

3.5  NOTAM

NOTAM contain information concerning the establishment, condition or change in any aeronautical facility, service, procedure or hazard, the timely knowledge of which is essential for personnel concerned with flight operations. The text of each NOTAM contains the information in the order shown in the ICAO NOTAM Format and is composed of the significations/uniform abbreviated phraseology assigned to the ICAO NOTAM Code complemented by ICAO abbreviations, indicators, identifiers, designators, call signs, frequencies, figures and plain language. NOTAM are originated and issued for Mogadishu FIR and are distributed in series A only.

Series A:General rules, en-route navigation and communication facilities, airspace restrictions and information concerning major international aerodromes. This series is given national and international distribution.

3.6  Aeronautical Information Circulars (AIC)

The Aeronautical Information Circulars (AIC) The Aeronautical Information Circulars (AIC) contain information on the long-term forecast of any major change in legislation, regulations, explanatory or advisory nature liable to affect flight safety; and information or notification of an explanatory or advisory nature concerning procedures or facilities; information of a purely explanatory or advisory nature liable to affect flight safety; and information or notification of an explanatory or advisory nature concerning technical, legislative or purely administrative matters. AIC Somalia are issued in one series (A). AIC Series A contains information affecting both international and national civil aviation and is given international and national distribution.

Each AIC is numbered consecutively within each series on a calendar year basis. The year, indicated by two digits, is a part of the serial number of the AIC, e.g. AIC A 1/17. A checklist of AIC currently in force is issued as an AIC once a year.

3.7  Checklist and summary of NOTAM

A checklist of valid NOTAM is issued monthly via AFS. The checklist is followed by a list of valid NOTAM distributed by mail to all Information Package. It contains a plain language (in English) presentation of the valid NOTAM and information about the number of the latest issued AIP AMDT, AIRAC AIP AMDT, AIP SUP and AIC as well as the numbers of the elements issued under the AIRAC that will become effective or, if none, the NIL AIRAC notification.

3.8  Aeronautical Charts

Aeronautical charts are visual representations of a portion of the Earth specifically designated to meet the needs of air navigation.

3.9  Sale of publications

All the publications of the Aeronautical Information Services are available online for access on the AIM web www.scaa.gov.so

If no information was submitted for publication at the AIRAC date, a NIL notification will be issued by NOTAM not later than one AIRAC cycle before the AIRAC effective date concerned.