The European Commission is proceeding with the formal adoption process of the Surveillance Performance and Interoperability (SPI) and Aircraft Identification (ACID) rules after the Single European Sky Committee approved implementation last Thursday in Brussels.
The regulations developed by EUROCONTROL and stakeholders, received mandates by the European Commission. EASA provided the essentially safety oversight role, according to the agency.
“We are delighted at the Single Sky Committee’s acceptance of both these rules,” said Luc Tytgat, EUROCONTROL’s Single Sky director. “The SPI one was the most challenging but ACID is a product that will prove to be a workable solution to a real problem and has already met with gratifyingly high level of acceptance.”
Once implemented, these regulations will help harmonize the performance and interoperability of surveillance systems as well as allow for the continuous and unambiguous identification of individual aircraft, according to EUROCONTROL.
The regulations will make a positive contribution to the efficiency and safety goals of the SES, stated the agency. The SPI implementing rules spells out for the performance and the interoperability of surveillance in the European Air Traffic Management (ATM) Network.
The rule will facilitate the transition to new surveillance technologies and applications, which will improve overall safety and efficiency in the ATM system. ACID will required Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSP) to use down-linked aircraft identification for identifying aircraft, without have to use a discrete Secondary Surveillance Radar (SSR) codes alone.
Source: Aviation Today