Working Group C

Working Group C

May 27-30 2002

Work Plan toward drafting Chapter 8 and 9

1. 
   Chapter 8: Identification of ATM operating concepts to be supported, from now till 2015, by aeronautical communications and surveillance services
   

1. 
   Identification of classes of airspace, homogeneous for a given ATM concept , level of air-traffic density and aircraft required avionics equipage , (HCA)
   
2. 
   Definition of operating concepts
   
3. 
   Mapping of operating concepts onto homogeneous airspace classes
   in a tabular format , including the time dimension : years 2005, 2010 and 2015
   
4. 
   Transition between operating concepts and systems:
   a) transition in time , from a given concept to a future one, for a given HCA
   

c) transition to new systems and compatibility with legacy systems

5. 
   Sources : reference and applicable documents
   

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  Get MACONDO’s WP1 executive summary from EUROCONTROL and generate draft v1 by 15^th June
  
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  Review, consolidate with other sources, disseminate to FAA and other AMCP WGC Members with the objective of getting additional inputs (e.gr FAA ADS-B concepts of operation) and comments by 1^st July
  
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  Consolidate above into draft v 2 and disseminate prior to KOBE meeting, by mid-September
  

2. 
   Chapter 9 : Communication service requirements:
   

1. 
   Scope: this is definition of communications operations requirements to support the above-identified concepts and airspace classes from a ATS provider’s perspective. It includes the identification of required communication enablers, such as point to point and broadcast modes, air-ground and air to air voice and data communications
   
2. 
   AOC concepts and communication requirements are expected to come from IATA and other aircraft owners/operators representative bodies. If and when available the AOC class of requirements will be consolidated together with ATS class into the AMCP/8 report with the goal of maximizing technical and economic users’ benefits.
   

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  Contents : synthesis from MACONDO’s study WP 2 augmented with relevant extracts from other sources
  
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  Work-plan:
  a) Obtain executive summary of above-mentionned study by mid July
  

3. 
   Generate draft v1 by 1^st week of September and disseminate to AMCP Members
   
4. 
   Get comments and consolidate into draft V2 by 3^rd week of September in time for KOBE meeting
   

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