Mexico and Canada Centers?

[blantonl]

Folks,

Does anyone know what entities aircraft that are transiting the US into Mexico and Canada contact for ATC communications?

For instance, each day an KLM 747 flies over my location here in San Antonio Texas at high altitude on the way to Mexico City (coming from Frankfurt). At times, it is a spectacular sight with beautiful contrails. However, I've always wondered who they contact when they cross the US Mexico border and on what frequencies, as I've been unable to catch what frequency they switch to when Houston Center hands them off.

Does anyone have any documentation or information on this?

 

[muscanga]

Mexico's Centers

Here in Mexico the SENEAM (Service of Navigation on the Mexican Airspace) is in charge of the ATC.
Mexico is divided in 4 Centers (Mexico, Mazatlan, Monterrey and Merida) to handle all the traffic.
In the example of the KLM 747 (coming from Amsterdam, Lufthansa comes from Frankfurt to Mexico City) crossing the border it is delivered to Monterrey Center Sector 1 in 124.5, then to Mexico Center Sector 1 in 126.6, later to Sector 6 in 126.0 and then it's transfered to Mexico Terminal Area in 129.6 to make all the approach process for Mexico City Airport.

Hope this answers your question about flights in the mexican airspace.

 

[brandon]

Great info muscanga
On the topic of Mexican ATC freqs, aircraft heading into Baja Caifornia from the SoCal area switch to Mazatlan center on 128.3. You will hear comms in English and Spanish. I think it would be cool to document the freqs for other areas in Mexico.

 

[Jay911]

Nav Canada is a private (former government) agency that handles all air traffic control comms in the country. We have seven ACCs, which are equivalent to the USA's ARTCCs.

(below taken from Wikipedia)

Canada has seven Centers, which are operated by NAV CANADA. The ICAO code for each Canadian Center is the same as the last two letters of the three-letter code of the location prefixed by "CZ".

Edmonton Area Control Centre, Edmonton, Alberta (CZEG)
Gander Area Control Centre, Gander, Newfoundland (CZQX) - Oceanic [toward UK --j.] and domestic
Moncton Area Control Centre, Riverview, New Brunswick (CZQM)
Montreal Area Control Centre, Montreal, Quebec (CZUL)
Toronto Area Control Centre, Toronto, Ontario (CZYZ)
Vancouver Area Control Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia (CZVR)
Winnipeg Area Control Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba (CZWG)

(above taken from Wikipedia)

The above ACCs are entered in the RR DB.

 

[Luis_C]

This PDF file I got here must give you all the information needed for Mexico Centers.

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=7abf700135581940d2db6fb9a8902bda

There you can see where is Mexico, Mazatlan, Monterrey and Merida Centers, the divisions and the frequencies used in each place.

 

[fdxpilot]

I know this is an old thread but does anyone have the attached map of Mexico's air traffic control centers?

 

[Dreamflight767]

This PDF file I got here must give you all the information needed for Mexico Centers.

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=7abf700135581940d2db6fb9a8902bda

There you can see where is Mexico, Mazatlan, Monterrey and Merida Centers, the divisions and the frequencies used in each place.

Hi Luis_C:

The link you provided isn't working. Could we try something else? Thank you.

 

[Citywide173]

Hi Luis_C:

The link you provided isn't working. Could we try something else? Thank you.

You did notice that the link is 10 years old and that Luis C hasn't posted since 2009?

 

[Luis_C]

So yeah, it's normally bad rap to post in a 10 years old thread, and to ask something to an user who has not posted since 2009. But I think today is Dreamflight767 lucky day, because I am here and I even got that file seating in my computer!!

Got it to Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/s/a382nfyoua2f3oz/CSA H-1 8 JUNE 2006.pdf?dl=0

 

[Citywide173]

Miracles do happen! Thank you for sharing.

 

[mws72]

If anyone is still reading this thread:

https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/aeronav/digital_products/ifr/

this page has the charts you can use for south of the US.