Montreal Area Control Centre

Montreal Area Control Centre is one of 7 Area Control Centres in Canada operated by Nav Canada. Montreal ACC is located in a building on the outskirts of Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport.
From this ACC, air traffic controllers provide en route and terminal control services to aircraft in the Montreal Flight Information Region. The Montreal FIR airspace covers the entire province of Quebec, parts of eastern Ontario, the eastern shore of James Bay, Hudson Bay, the western section of Newfoundland and Labrador and the Nunavut region that includes Iqaluit. The Montreal FIR is bordered by 6 Flight Information Regions. To the east are the Moncton and Gander FIRs, to the south is the Boston Air Route [Traffic Control Center|Boston ARTCC], to the west are the Toronto and Winnipeg FIRs and the Edmonton FIR to the north.

Aerodrome classes

The Montreal ACC assumes control of the following classes of airports:
Class C

CYUL – Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport in Montreal, QC
CYMX – Montréal-Mirabel International Airport in Mirabel, QC
CYHU – Montréal/Saint-Hubert Airport in Saint-Hubert, QC
CYOW – Ottawa Macdonald–Cartier International Airport in Ottawa, ON
CYQB – Québec City [Jean Lesage International Airport] in Sainte-Foy, QC
CYRC - Chicoutimi/Saint-Honoré Aerodrome in Saint-Honoré, QC

Class D

CYJN – Saint-Jean Airport in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC

Class E

CYBC – Baie-Comeau Airport in Baie-Comeau, QC
CYFB – Iqaluit Airport in Iqaluit, NU
CYGP – Michel-Pouliot Gaspé Airport in Gaspe, QC
CYND – Gatineau-Ottawa Executive Airport in Gatineau, QC
CYGL – La Grande Rivière Airport near Radisson, QC
CYYY – Mont-Joli Airport in Mont-Joli, QC
CYUY – Rouyn-Noranda Airport in Rouyn-Noranda, QC
CYZV – Sept-Îles Airport in Sept-Iles, QC
CYVO – Val-d'Or Airport in Val-d'Or, QC
CYWK – Wabush Airport in Wabush, NL

This FIR contains several Class G aerodromes that are in uncontrolled airspace and IFR clearances are required to enter or leave controlled airspace.

Peripheral station (PAL) frequencies

Within each FIR, there are transmitter sites that allow the relay of distant communication from aircraft back to the ACC. These links are called a peripheral station. They re-transmit the voice and data communication over high speed data links between the ACC and the remote transmitter. There are several PALs in the Montreal FIR:

Brevoort 132.025 & 134.85
Brisay 119.4 & 126.5
Brockville-Thousand Islands Regional 134.675 & 231.95
Campbellford 135.05 & 398.4
Chibougamau 127.3 133.025 & 253.2
Chisasbli 132.325
Inukjuak 132.675
Iqaluit 132.8 134.55
Kapuskasing 133.975
Kuujjuaq 132.45 & 133.2 134.2 135.1 135.8
La Grande Rivière 132.1 133.775
La Tuque 134.5
Lac Levesque 134.225
Mont-Joli 132.625 134.65 & 227.2
Mont-Laurier 126.575 127.875
Moosonee 118.975
Ottawa 124.275 134.975 266.8 127.7 128.175 135.15 & 247.0 & 252.5 128.775
Pembroke 135.2 & 278.5
Puvirnituq 134.725
Québec 124.0 & 127.85 322.8 135.025 & 270.9
Rivière-du-Loup 125.1 & 29.6
Rouyn 120.725
St-Adrien 123.925 & 133.225 132.35
Schefferville 132.9
Sept-Iles 135.55 & 381.9
Sherbrooke 132.55 & 226.0
Timmins 133.975 & 381.4
Trois-Rivières 128.225
Val-d'Or 125.9 & 308.3
Wabush 132.25

Montreal Frequencies

Below FL240 – 118.9, 124.65, 126.9, 132.85, 268.3
Below FL290 – 125.15, 134.15, 135.6, 229.2, 245.0, 294.0
FL290 & above – 134.4, 287.2, 350.7