Facility Training Criteria - JFK

New York ARTCC

Kennedy (JFK)

Rev. 4 — Revised: 2025-02-03

Clearance Delivery and Ground

Level 1 & 2 material covered in Level Specific Training Criteria
Airport configuration and coordination with adjacent facilities
JFK Valid Exit System
JFK Common Amendments Table
JFK SIDs

• Flow diagram usage in the SOP
• Initial Altitude and Climb via SID phraseology
• JFK#
  • Climb selection
  • Conditions of use
  • Climb selection
  • Hybrid transition vs routing phraseology
  • Conditions of use
• DEEZZ#
  • Transition selection
  • Hybrid transition phraseology
  • Conditions of use
• SKORR#
  • Transition selection
  • Conditions of use
  • Concorde operations

JFK VFR Class B procedures
PDC usage (vTDLS)
Taxiway ownership on each configuration
Runway assignment to prop and turboprop aircraft
Taxiing procedures

• Taxiways A and B directions
• Runway crossing coordination
• Airbus 388 and Boeing 747 restrictions
• Conflict avoidance

Sequencing of departures

Frequency management and prioritization of transmissions

Local

Kennedy Level 1 material
Level 2 material covered in Level Specific Training Criteria
Understanding of relevant LOA's

• JFK ATCT-N90 LOA

JFK runway selection

• Coordination with other N90 facilities
• Belmont, Coney interactions with LGA
• ILS 13L interactions with LGA
• Taxiway ownership and parallel runway crossing instructions

LUAW procedures
Heading assignment on departure, when appropriate

• On the 13L/R configuration, efficient use of same runway separation to expedite departures
• Headings during special operations (ILS 13L and overflow)

Miles-in-trail requirements
Consolidated Wake Turbulence separation requirements
Overflow operations
Intersection departures
Management and coordination of missed approaches
JFK VFR Class B airspace delegations and procedures

• Adjacent sectors
• Overflights
• Shoreline transition procedures
• New York helicopter routes
• NY22 operations

Tower Concorde operations

Frequency management and prioritization of transmissions

Departure

Kennedy Level 2 material
Level 3 material covered in Level Specific Training Criteria
JFK Video Map

• Full knowledge of the depicted airports, departure gates, departure fixes, and applicable radials/airways.
• Basic knowledge of depicted VORs, approaches, and landmarks.

Understanding of relevant LOA's

• JFK ATCT-JFK LOA
• JFK-LIB LOA
• JFK-ISP LOA
• ISP North Gate departures
• JFK-LGA LOA
• Coney and Belmont conditional airspaces
• LGA SHIPP, WAVEY, DIXIE, and WHITE departures
• JFK-ZNY LOA

JFK Departure Airspace awareness

• Vertical and lateral boundaries; adjacent sectors
• 4L/R & 13L/R configurations: Interactions with PACA (Pre-Arranged Coordination Airspace)
• 22L/R configuration: Airspace along DPK R-221
• 31L/R configuration:
  • AOB 7,000 line
  • Airspace along DPK R-221
  • Interactions with PACA (Pre-Arranged Coordination Airspace)

MIT requirements
Proper handoff procedures

• Timely handoffs
• Direct handoffs to ZBW when Liberty not covered
• Direct handoffs to ZDC when N66 not covered

Noise abatement procedures: Vectoring above 2500 or over water on 22L/R and 31L/R configurations
Departure Concorde operations
IFR traffic on V16, T224, V1
FRG interactions and services
N90 VFR Class B operations

• Flight following
• Overflights

Frequency management and prioritization of transmissions