Aireon’s space-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) system will provide Air Traffic Controllers (ATCs) with unprecedented 100 percent surveillance of the entire airspace. Aireon’s system will perform in a similar way to ground based ADS-B systems and integrate seamlessly into the automation platforms where it will be treated as any other layer of surveillance. Optically, there may not even be a difference other than displaying more aircraft as “surveillance identified.”
All airspace in the world will have surveillance capabilities for ADS-B equipped aircraft without requiring investments in ground-based infrastructure by the Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs). For ATCs, this means there will no longer be any blind spots in Flight Information Regions (FIRs), enabling all ADS-B equipped aircraft to be displayed as “surveillance identified” no matter where they are.
Increased Operational Efficiency
- Increased responsiveness to pilot requests
- Improved aircraft track continuity
- Enhanced controller empowerment with more flexibility and control of aircraft in their region, allowing for tactical route/altitude changes
- Data integration with ATC/Air Traffic Management (ATM) automation systems
- Less requirement for mixed mode operations
- Improved predictability
Enhanced Safety
- Reduced risk of data loss through enhanced and continuous surveillance
- Reduced risk of loss of separation
- Enhanced situational awareness inside and outside a sector
- Visibility into transition zones with neighboring FIRs/ANSPs (reducing ops intruders)
- Elimination of blind spots and radar stitching across sector boundaries
- Reduction of gross navigation errors
- Early detection of emergency transponder codes (in current procedural airspace)
Global Harmonization
- Reduced complexity through harmonization of operating environment
