Facility Training Criteria - JFK

New York ARTCC

Kennedy (JFK)

Rev. 4 — Revised: 2025-02-06

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
  • DEEZZ#
    • Transition selection
    • Climb/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 A380 and Boeing B747 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
  
• Intersection departures
  
• Overflow operations
  
• 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
  
• 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.
• 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
  
• 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 overflights on V16, T224, V1
  
• FRG interactions and services
  
• N90 VFR Class B operations
  • Flight following
  • Overflights
• 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
• Frequency management and prioritization of transmissions

Approach

• Usage of the JFK Video Map
  • Knowledge of the depicted airports, departure gates, departure fixes, and applicable radials/airways.
  • Knowledge of depicted VORs, approaches, and landmarks.
• JFK Approach airspace awareness
  • Vertical and lateral boundaries
  • Adjacent sectors
  • Satellite airspace
  • Coney and Belmont conditional airspaces
• Relevant entry STARs, fixes, speed and altitude restrictions issued by ZNY and ZBW
  
• Merging flows and sequencing aircraft
  
• Positive separation
  
• Speed control
  
• Consolidated wake turbulence separation
  
• Approach Concorde operations
  
• N90 VFR Class B operations
  • Flight following
  • Overflights
• Understanding of relevant LOA's
  • JFK ATCT-JFK LOA
    • Scratchpad usage
  • JFK-ISP LOA
  • JFK-LGA LOA
  • JFK-ZNY LOA
  • LOA control for turns
    

4L/R Configuration

• PACA (Pre-Arranged Coordination Airspace) usage
• Final box altitudes and management
• Simultaneous approaches to 4L/R and required separation
• Recognition of Coney airspace ownership

13L/R Configuration

• RNAV Z 13L/R operations
• Overflow operations: RNAV Z 13L + RNAV X 22L approaches
• ILS 13L operations
• PACA (Pre-Arranged Coordination Airspace) usage
• Final box altitudes and management

22L/R Configuration

• Satellite airspace awareness
• Final box altitudes and management
• Simultaneous approaches to 22L/R and required separation

31L/R Configuration

• PACA for JFK departures to Southwest gates
• Final box altitudes and management
• Simultaneous approaches to 31L/R and required separation

ISP sector operations (when not covered by a separate ISP_APP controller)

• Airspace awareness
• Lateral and vertical boundaries
• Adjacent sectors
• Towered and untowered fields within the sector
• VFR operations and coordination
• Departure gates
• Entry STARs for ISP sector airports
• HPN arrivals via BOUNO# STAR