EFRO Rovaniemi

Runways:
03/21, 3,000 x 60 metres

ILS CAT II - Europe’s northernmost category 2 instrument approach system.

Concorde has also visited Rovaniemi several times, bringing British tourists to see Santa Claus.

Come and see the Santa Claus at his home before the Christmas!

Rovaniemi is a city in Northern Finland (Lapland) near the Arctic Circle that is known as the home town of Santa Claus.

Rovaniemi is a very popular charter destination especially at winter time due to the exotic nature, reindeer, the northern lights, darkness at winter time (only a couple of hours daylight time).

Real pilots don't fly without charts. All the required real-world up-to-date charts can be found at DOWNLOADS/CHARTS. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to open the files.

Please note especially that the Rovaniemi (EFRO) charts (as well as many others) changed very recently!

Sceneries for Rovaniemi (EFRO):

Flight Simulator 2000: Default scenery recommended.

Flight Simulator 2002: EFRO 2.0 by FISD, FinnClass 2.01, FinnTerrain 1.0

Flight Simulator 2004: EFRO 2.0 by FISD, FinnClass 2.01, FinnTerrain 1.0

For other airports (like Helsinki-Vantaa), please see our Sceneries page.

All the relevant ATC positions will be manned during the event:

• EFRO_V_TWR (Rovaniemi Tower)
• EFRO_V_APP (Rovaniemi Approach)
• EFRO_R_APP (Rovaniemi Arrival, optional)
• EFPS_V_CTR (Rovaniemi area control center covering Northern Finland)
• EFES_V_CTR (Tampere area control center covering Southern Finland)
• EFHK_V_APP (Helsinki Approach)
• EFHK_V_TWR (Helsinki Tower)
• Probably other ATC positions will be manned as well

Currently booked positions: ATC booking.

Instructions for the air traffic controllers (in Finnish).

The primary voice server in use is voice.vatsim.fi. In case of network problems, vacc-fin.net may be used.

The correct Roger Wilco server and channel always available in the controller's ATIS message.

Be sure to have Roger Wilco configured for "Slow Modem"!

Some routes to/from Rovaniemi:

Helsinki-Vantaa - Rovaniemi (EFHK-EFRO):
ANT UY75 OUK UM857 ROI

Rovaniemi - Helsinki-Vantaa (EFRO-EFHK):
UT9 UTUNU UM857 ORM DCT

Oulu - Rovaniemi (EFOU-EFRO):
M857

Rovaniemi - Oulu (EFRO-EFOU):
M857

Kemi-Tornio - Rovaniemi (EFKE-EFRO):
Y78

Rovaniemi - Stockholm-Arlanda (EFRO-ESSA):
BABUX UP609 SIPRI UT31 HMR

Stockholm-Arlanda - Rovaniemi (ESSA-EFRO):
RESNA UP609 BABUX

Tallinn - Rovaniemi (EETN-EFRO):
BALTI UY75 OUK UM857 ROI

Rovaniemi - Tallinn (EFRO-EETN):
UT9 UTUNU UM857 ORM DCT EESTI

Information for foreign visitors: Flying in/to Finland tutorial.