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# SPA.ETOPS.115 ETOPS en-route alternate aerodrome planning minima

ANNEX V (Part-SPA) · Regulation (EU) No 965/2012 · EAR revision 27 Mar 2026

Official sources: [EASA Easy Access Rules (opens in a new tab)](https://www.easa.europa.eu/en/document-library/easy-access-rules/easy-access-rules-air-operations) · [EUR-Lex 2012/965 (opens in a new tab)](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32012R0965)

IR Implementing rule

## SPA.ETOPS.115 ETOPS en-route alternate aerodrome planning minima

(a) The operator shall only select an aerodrome as an ETOPS en-route [alternate aerodrome](https://avioverse.aero/glossary/easa/alternate-aerodrome) when the appropriate weather reports or forecasts, or any combination thereof, indicate that, between the anticipated time of landing until one hour after the latest possible time of landing, conditions will exist at or above the planning minima calculated by adding the additional limits of Table 1.

(b) The operator shall include in the operations manual the method for determining the operating minima at the planned ETOPS en-route alternate aerodrome.

Table 1

Planning minima for the ETOPS en-route alternate aerodrome

| Type of approach                                                                             | Planning minima                    |
| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------- |
| Precision approach                                                                           | DA/H + 200 ft RVR/VIS + 800 m⁽¹⁾   |
| Non-precision approach or [Circling](https://avioverse.aero/glossary/easa/circling) approach | MDA/H + 400 ft⁽¹⁾ RVR/VIS + 1500 m |
| ⁽¹⁾ VIS: visibility; MDA/H: minimum descent altitude/height.                                 |                                    |

IR · SPA.ETOPS.115 — Regulation (EU) No 965/2012 · Air OPS Easy Access Rules · EAR revision 27 Mar 2026

[All rules in SUBPART F: EXTENDED RANGE OPERATIONS WITH TWO-ENGINED AEROPLANES (ETOPS)](https://avioverse.aero/regulations/easa/air-ops/part-spa/subpart-f)

Consolidated from the EASA Easy Access Rules (revision 27 Mar 2026, extracted 2 Nov 2026) for convenience. Not the official publication — verify against the Official Journal of the European Union and the EASA publications before operational use.