Mission

A4F Service’s mission is to provide Air Operators, IFR & VFR Procedure Design Organisations, CAAs, and ANSPs, both civil and military with aeronautical charting services aligned with:

• Their individual needs,
• International, European and national requirements and guidance and
• Human factors principles.

Vision

We have set out to become your trusted go-to partner when it comes to charting services and supporting quick situational identification and decision making in high-precision environments. 

Values

Our core values are:

• We provide quality and trust,
• Safety is our priority,
• We go the extra mile,
• We contribute towards the evolution of the industry.

Production of Aeronautical Charts

A4F Services is at its core an aeronautical chart production company. procedure design charts, ICAO Annex 4 charts, and air operator specific charts are all belonging to A4F Services’s charting portfolio. We are able to produce charts according to your requirements and specifications by using data from your regulated data sources. Moreover, we can also migrate your current status charts towards an automated charting environment.

ICAO Annex 4, 6, 15, PANS-OPS (Doc 8168), and the Aeronautical Chart Manual (Doc 8697) are taken into consideration.

Procedure Design Charts

When producing a procedure of any kind to or from an airport/heliport, a chart product of that procedure needs to be fashioned out to support the process of its safety assessment, flight inspection/validation and approval.

We have the experience and proven record to produce Procedure Design Charts out of the Procedure Design Report according to your requirements.

ICAO Charts

To comply with Annex 4 & 15 SARPs, States are required to produce a number of charts.

Using our experience, we produce your maps and charts according to ICAO Annex 15 requirements and ICAO Annex 4 definitions.

The transition of chart identification for PBN charts as outlined in PANS-OPS (Doc 8168) and ICAO Circular 353 are fully taken into account.

Pilot Approach Charts

In order to cope with the internal charting needs of air operators, end user/pilot charts are needed.

By using our excellent track record and experience we produce your chart compilations (e.g. FLIPS, EFBs, Operations Manual Part C) or just your charts for HEMS or HEL, OPS IFR and/or VFR, based on personalised layout requirements and cartographic symbology.

This includes RNP 0.3, RNP AR 0.3, 0.2, and 0.1 charts.

RNP approach procedure identification / RNP chart naming is in line with ICAO PANS-OPS (Doc 8168) and Circular 336-AN/195.

Pilot Departure Charts

ICAO PANS-OPS (Doc 8168) and Circular 336-AN/195 do not contain specific provisions for RNP departure procedure identification / RNP chart naming.

Therefore, the RNP chart naming provisions applicable to RNP approach procedures have been adapted for RNP departure procedure identification / RNP chart naming.

Aeronautical Charting Training

Our experienced charting team provides a thorough training for ab-initio aeronautical charts production. The training, which lasts for two and a half weeks, contains among others:

• Cartography principles introduction as well 
• The aeronautical data chain and aeronautical charting understanding 
• ICAO Aeronautical Charts according to Annex 4 general principles,
• Practical training (one and a half weeks): development of charts by participants like SID, STAR, Aerodrome Obstacle Chart Type A.

Besides the ab-initio training, a refresher course in charting production, lasting one working week, is also offered.

Development Support

Using our experience, we support system & product enterprises in the development of cartographic tools towards sophisticated widely automated aeronautical charting systems. One of such systems developed in Switzerland, is being successfully put into use for our aeronautical cartographic service.

Consultancy

Our experts provide strategic advice for your organization’s charting managerial, professional and technical teams. From concept development, planning and monitoring, we help implementing new international developments like the “AIS to AIM” and “the aeronautical data catalogue” in your organization.

A4F Services is a company founded in Switzerland which focuses its resources on providing customers with services around aeronautical charting. Our team has more than 40 years of aeronautical information management expertise. Our core area lies in aeronautical charting and data management processes at both national and international level. 

Our main expertise areas are:

• Operational and strategic knowledge for aeronautical and spatial information management,
• Process analysis,
• Data Management,
• AIM processes and organization,
• ICAO Annex 4 and 15,
• Aeronautical charting.

When trying to enumerate what distinguishes us from the others, we can say that:

• We are one of the few world companies building helicopter PINS charts
• We have tens of years of experience building charts in the Swiss challenging aviation environment
• We build individual solutions for both our civil and military partners
• We are part of a trusted network of aviation professionals, managing in this way to advise our clients in areas outside aeronautical data management and charting

Behind the founder of A4F Services are nearly half of century of Aeronautical Charting experience, particularly in:

• Service development
• System implementation
• Training and
• Cartographic processes

Occupying along the way leadership positions in Charting Production and Processing both in Skyguide and FOCA AIS, he now inspires and leads the way forward, with the ambition of making A4F Services an important charting provider.

RNP AR 0.3 (H) APCH & DEP

Swiss Air-Ambulance REGA received the world's first operational approval from the Swiss Federal Office of Civil Aviation (FOCA) for the RNP AR 0.3 approach and departure procedures at Interlaken Hospital with the Leonardo AW109 SP helicopter. These RNP AR Interlaken helicopter procedures were drawn up and finally approved in accordance with EASA and FOCA procedure regulations.

REGA's comprehensive application together with a Flight Operational Safety Assessment (FOSA) – prepared in accordance with the relevant European aviation regulations, a risk assessment, and the required crew training documents also served as the basis for FOCA's operational approval.

This new PinS procedure allows to conduct HEMS operations in even more severe weather conditions in high mountain areas.

Please contact us for RNP AR 0.3/0.1 (H) charting via .

APCH & DEP PROC Charts

The RNP AR 0.3 Procedure Design Charts and the Pilot Charts, for both, aproach and departure, are provided by A4F Services.

We supported the approval process from the start of procedure design to the final pilot charts and will update the procedure design and pilot charts, if and when required.

You can view such pilot chart examples by hovering over the chart inserts below and by clicking for the respective whole chart.

RNP 0.3, RNP AR 0.3, 0.2, 0.1 Charts

We can support you

Beside of RNP AR 0.3 (H) charts we developed RNP 0.3 (H) charts and have RNP AR (H) 0.2 and 0.1 in the pipline.

The development, evaluation, and amendment of these charts are done according to our data driven charting concept by using the aeroMAP Product.

The current overview of navigation specifications used for approach and departure procedures charts are as follows: