The Aeronautical Information Service, which is under the control of the Civil Aviation and Airports Authority (the OACA), guarantees the diffusion of information necessary for safety, regularity and efficiency of international and national air navigation within its responsibility area.
It is composed of the AIS Office, of the International Notam office (NOF) and the AIS units located in the aerodromes.
Responsibility area
The Aeronautical Information Service is in charge of collecting and spreading information throughout the territory of Tunisia and the air space rising above the high seas within the FIR / UIR Tunis.
Aeronautical publications
The aeronautical information is provided within the frame of the integrated aeronautical information package that includes the following elements:
- Aeronautical Information Publication (AIP);
- • AIP Amendments Service (AIP AMDT);
- • AIP Supplement (AIP SUP);
- • NOTAM and pre-flight information bulletins (PIB);
- • Aeronautical Information Circulars (AIC);
- • Checklists and summaries;
- • CD-ROM containing Tunisia AIP, AIP SUP and AIC in force and the latest AIRAC AIP AMDT AIRAC AIP and SUP.
Regular amendments of the CD-ROM are distributed every 56 days in compliance with the AIRAC schedule.
A CD-ROM containing all the current national regulatory texts in force at the date mentioned on the CD-ROM and of which the list is in GEN part of the Tunisia AIP. Users are invited to regularly consult the Official Newspaper of the Republic of Tunisia (Official Newspaper) and the Tunisia AIP, part GEN section GEN 1.6, for texts published after the date mentioned on the CD-ROM.
NOTAMs and monthly checklists linked in the website are issued by the aeronautical fixed service (AFS), while the PIB is available in the aerodrom AIS units. All other elements of the set are sent by mail.
