Originally Posted by gringo (Post 2967382)

I flew from Lagos to Addis, roughly the same as SEA to FLL, without talking to a single controller the entire way.

There’s a procedure in Africa where we all announced our locations, trying to keep a sense of situational awareness, but it wasn’t perfect.

SLOP’d the hell out of Africa.

but we don’t fly to Africa. And even though South America is decades ahead of the Dark Continent ATC wise, I still feel much better offsetting just because I’ve seen what happens when you don’t.

Also, wake turbulence becomes an issue; everyone flies the same route, and last thing I need is an upset because a 777 flew right overhead opposite direction 1,000’ above...

Originally Posted by captjns (Post 2967397)

Lots of heavies traversing between ME to SE Asia. Depending on winds SLOP is SOP. Same on published routes between US and NZ and Australia.

Originally Posted by TrojanCMH (Post 2968403)

FOM/OP Specs here at Spirit says SLOP is optional up to 2nm right of the airway. Not required. WATRS routes aren’t exactly busy like some of the other areas talked about on here.

The captain someone talked about who deleted the SLOP should have read the FOM where it says in bold that you don’t need permission to use it.


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Originally Posted by Omniscient (Post 2968411)

Perhaps the Captain simply just didn’t want that flight to operate with an offset? It’s still their authority whether or not to SLOP

Originally Posted by gringo (Post 2968560)

There’s a lot of people who don’t know what SLOP is; I remember following Lufthansa one time over the tracks listening to them seeking permission to SLOP over the HF. For an hour.

Originally Posted by bcpilot (Post 2969019)

I was about to ask this newbie question..

What is SLOP..??

Originally Posted by KCJake (Post 2969021)

Strategic Lateral Offset Procedure

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stra...fset_procedure