In-Trail Procedures (ITP) is an application of Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) that allows aircraft to change flight levels in areas where current non-radar separation standards would prevent desirable altitude changes. The ITP avionics receive ADS-B Out position reports from aircraft at intermediate flight levels that could be blocking the desired climb or descent maneuver. The most recent standard for ADS-B broadcast is RTCA/DO-260B [1]. This is also known as Version 2. Equipage is mandated by 2020 in the US for the same aircraft that carry transponders. Equipage is mandated in Europe by 2015 for forward fit aircraft and by 2017 for retrofit aircraft. Standards have been developed for the ADS-B data accuracy requirements for ITP [2, 3]. The standards are straightforward to apply to aircraft equipped with transponders certified to DO-260B [1]. The standards are less straightforward to apply for aircraft equipped with transponders certified to the earlier standards of ADS-B, which are known as Version 0 or Version 1 [4, 5]. This paper shows that crosschecking ADS-B data with Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) data is an effective mitigation technique for uncertain ADS-B horizontal position accuracy and integrity for legacy Version 0 and Version 1 ADS-B transponders.


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    Title :

    Using TCAS surveillance to enable legacy ADS-B transponder use for in-trail procedures


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    Publication date :

    2012-10-01


    Size :

    724856 byte





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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