Facility Training Criteria - LGA

New York ARTCC

LaGuardia Training Procedure

Rev. 2 — Revised: 2025-02-02

Clearance Delivery/Ground

• Facility Departure Exit Fix direction guide / valid exit points
  • Student should be able to tell which fixes/VORs belong to which gate
  • Student should understand scratchpad entries and be able to input entries during SB
  • Student should understand that a scratchpad entry should not be placed when no overlying controller is present
  • Student should understand sequencing based on exit chart (Top right of the Ground section of the LGA SOP)
• Preferred routes to neighboring airports
• Common airway and route amendments
• Identification of the appropriate departure controller
• Facility specific runway configuration
• Facility specific departure procedures
• Facility specific IFR operations
• Basic Class Bravo VFR Procedures (Class B VFR Operations)
• Skyline Route Procedures
  • Student should understand when to omit an initial altitude
  • Student should understand how to include the Skyline Route phraseology into a VFR clearance
• LGA Standard Instrument Departure (SID)
  • Climbs (and their associated RNAV departure) and how they interact with JFK
  • Climbs (and their associated RNAV departure) to use based on JFK config
  • Climbs (and their associated RNAV departure) to use based on LGA config
  • 6 climbs (and their basic procedure after departure)
    • Phraseology to issue a climb
  • 5 RNAV Departure Procedures
• Appropriate Frequency and Radio name

Local

Compliance with facility runway selection criteria

Facility specific departure heading procedures (DEP31)

• Student should understand the impact of LGA using ILS 13 on the EWR departures

Local VFR and Class Bravo procedures including visual reporting points and routes (Class B VFR Operations)

Knowledge of the airspace and its boundaries

Facility specific IFR ops including: LAHSO, LUAW, and anticipated separation

Tower radar display

Missed approach/Go-Around procedures

Helicopter operations

Tower and TRACON LOA

Local control airspace within NY Class B

Exclusion zones

Climb compliance

VFR Procedures

Departure

Facility Specific Departure Control Airspace & Delegation

• Student should understand the SUL operations and how the LGA configuration changes what they can/can't do

Facility Specific Traffic Flow Diagrams

Intra-Facility LOA's

Inter-Facility LOA’s

N90 Liberty Departure Procedures

• Student should understand when and how to hand off departures when Liberty Departure is staffed or covered by another position (typically, New York Center)
• Student should understand when and how to hand off/release departures when Liberty Departure is NOT staffed
  • Student should know how this procedure changes when BOS_CTR is online/offline

Appropriate position relief & transfer of control procedures (Signing On and Signing Off, Position Relief Briefings)

• Student should understand which controllers online could assume control of the position (NY_CTR, LGA_V_APP, or a N90 controller capable of covering LGA Departures)

Providing Services to Satellite Facilities

• Student should understand the interactions between departures from KLGA and KHPN

Point-Out Procedures

Approach

Facility Specific Approach Control Airspace & Delegation

Facility Specific Traffic Flow Diagrams

Intra-Facility LOA's

Inter-Facility LOA’s

Appropriate position relief & transfer of control procedures (Signing On and Signing Off, Position Relief Briefings)

Providing Additional Services to KHPN and KDXR

Point-Out Procedures

Arrival LOAs & Traffic Arrival Charts

Noise Abatement Procedures

Charted Visual Approaches & Commonly Used Instrument Approach Review

5 approach positions/frequencies/radio names

Airspace delegations

Video map

Special Use Line (SUL) and how EWR's configuration can change the procedures

Approach scratchpad entries

Arrival Routes (STARs) and their ending points

Approach flows based on runway config and descent points

ILS13 interaction with EWR

LOC31 interaction with JFK