Tower

The primary station is Tower South (EDDB_S_TWR). Tower North can be staffed as soon as Berlin Delivery is connected.

AoR Berlin-Brandenburg Airport

Procedures

CTR

• Mandatory Reporting Points: November (North), Mike (South)
• D(CTR) from GND to 2500 ft
• Traffic circuits between both runways are not allowed 
• ED-R 4 and ED-R 146 north of the CTR
• Many hospitals north of the CTR

CTR Berlin - © openflightmaps.org

Departure Routes

• Departures from both runways are always independent (no waiting or coordination required)
• Parallel departures have to exactly stay on the published procedure
• All departing aircraft are sent to Bremen Radar / Berlin Departure when airborne
  • Departures of runway 07L/25R to Departure North (DBDN) - 134.425
  • Departures of runway 07R/25L to Departure South (DBDS) - 120.625
• Parallel departing aircraft are only independent as long as both stay on a published procedure (vectored / visual departures are not independent and therefore require coordination between both Tower)

Departure Separation

• Same runway, different SID: min. 3 NM
• Same runway, same SID: min. 5 NM
• Same runway, different WTC: apply wake turbulence separation

Additional spacing:

• Preceding on Z-SID, succeeding on Q-SID: 2 additional NM required
• Preceding on K-SID, succeeding on B-SID: 2 additional NM required

Efficiency

• Target arrival spacing in 5-6 NM at touchdown
• Use spacing between arriving aircraft to depart aircraft waiting at the holding point
• The usage of Reduced Runway Separation (when possible) is very helpful

Mode of Operations

• Dependent Parallel Approaches: 3 NM diagonal separation to aircraft on the parallel runway
• Independent Parallel Approaches: parallel approaches allowed
  • Independent Parallel Approaches Operations are only permitted when N_TWR and S_TWR are staffed, in addition, F_APP and D_APP need to be controlled by different controllers 
• More details here: EDDB/EDDP - Airport Betriebsmodus
  

Handoff to Ground

• Aircraft will switch to Ground automatically once vacated
  • Information to the pilots via the ATIS mandatory 
    
  • Support pilots who are not switching to Ground automatically 

Visual Swingover

• Only allowed during critical situations
  

Reduced diagonal separation

A reduced diagonal separation of at least 1,5 NM may be used during dependent parallel approaches.  

• Prior coordination of reduced separation is necessary
• Pilots need to be informed via the ATIS (&pda)
• Both aircraft have to be established 
• Reduced separation is only allowed between the threshold and 10 NM final

Use of Runways

• Normal Ops:
  • Both runways are active for departing and arriving traffic
  • Dependent Parallel Ops (3 NM diagonal separation)
• High Traffic Ops:
  • Both runways are active for departing and arriving traffic
  • Dependent Parallel Ops (1,5 NM diagonal separation)
• Very High Traffic Ops:
  • Both runways are active for departing and arriving traffic
    
  • Independent Paralell Ops
• Low Visibility Ops / Low Visibility Procedures:
  • Always to be used during LVP conditions
  • Departures via 25L, Arrivals via 25R
  • Departures via 07L, Arrivals via 07R
• Adverse Weather Ops:
  • To be only used when many Go Arounds due to weather are expected (e.g. due to CB or strong wind)
  • Departures via 25L, Arrivals via 25R
  • Departures via 07L, Arrivals via 07R
    

Go Around

• Handoff of Go Aorunds to Berlin Departure
• Coordination with Berlin Departure necessary
  

VFR-Ops

• VFR movements preferred via runway 25R/07L
• Crossing of the airport as to be coordinated between both Tower controllers

Schönhagen

• Stop of arriving aircraft via runway 25L, during RNP approach in EDAZ (Potential conflicts with Go Arounds on runway 25L)
• Departures from runway 25L can depart as long as:
  • The pilot ensures a good rate of climb after departure (to be expected for all Jets/Turboprops)
    
• Special procedures only apply during 25-Ops