Arizona Practice Areas and Reporting Points

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Instructions and Disclaimers

Please carefully review all of the information on this page.

This page contains AFTW recommended practice area reporting points and procedures for the Phoenix-area, Northern Arizona, and Southern Arizona. Each pilot has the responsibility for knowing and following all required FAA practices and procedures.

Always practice FAA-recommended visual scanning procedures, even when communicating on practice area frequencies and utilizing ADS-B traffic information.

Remember that not all pilots know about these practice area frequencies and reporting points.

Please direct any pilots who are operating in the Phoenix-area to this site.

ForeFlight and Garmin Pilot GPS Overlays

Other Overlays

PDFs of Phoenix Practice Area Charts (last updated January 8, 2022)

VIDEOS: How to Download and Use the Overlays

ForeFlight

Garmin Pilot

No-Maneuver Zone

  • Click HERE for the PDF

 

The Stacks

Practice Area Videos

Thank you to Emmanuel Tempelman for providing these excellent videos!

Northern Arizona Practice Areas and Procedures

Southern Arizona Practice Areas and Procedures

Luke AFB / Rainbow Valley Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)

  • The official MOU only applies to certain operators.
  • All pilots are encouraged to follow these procedures.
  • Click HERE for the MOU.

KIWA – Allegiant RNA Visual Rwy 30L Approach Procedure
Be aware of Allegiant approaches during training flights

Arizona Skydiving Operations

  • Current Information (Google Doc)
  • We did this with a Google Doc so that each operator can easily update their own information as needed.
  • If you run a skydiving operation in Arizona, please contact the AFTW to get Editor access to the Google Doc.
  • Please spread the word to pilots and other skydiving operators. Thank you!