AMCP/7-WP/__
AERONAUTICAL MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS PANEL
WORKING GROUP C
Montreal, Canada
15-19 October 2000
Agenda Item 2: Overview of Recent Developments
STATUS OF RELATED ACTIVITIES IN RTCA
Presented by Brent Philips
1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Activities in RTCA related to air/ground communications systems of interest to the AMC Panel have continued since the last report to WGC/1 (October 2000). This paper is an update of progress and document completions since that time.
2 DISCUSSION
2.1 The following are summaries of the status of communications-related products of RTCA and EUROCAE/RTCA. Previously approved products of each working body are not listed.
RTCA SC-165 -- AMSS (SATCOM)
AMS(R)S Data Link MASPS DO-270 approved 10 Oct 2001
(Generic for all systems)
DO-210D Change No. 2 SC-165 completed 3 Oct 2001
(GSO AMSS MOPS) PMC consideration 28 Nov 2001
DO-262 Change No. 1 SC-165 completed 3 Oct 2001
(NGSS AMSS MOPS) PMC consideration 28 Nov 2001
RTCA SC-172/EUROCAE WG47 -- Future VHF Digital Communications
MOPS, VDL Mode 3 DO-271 approved 12 October 2001
DO-224A MASPS Change No. 1 PMC approved 12 Oct 2001
MOPS, VDL Mode 2
Physical Layer only EUROCAE ED-92 approved ~ Jan 2001
Complete MOPS SC-172 completion Dec 2000
(EUROCAE test procedures proposal
under evaluation; may delay MOPS)
DO-224A MASPS Change No. 2 future work being assessed
RTCA SC-186 -- ADS-B
MOPS for 1090 MHz ADS-B DO-260 approved 13 Sep 2000
Application of Airborne Conflict DO-263 approved 14 Dec 2000
Management: Detection, Prevention
and Resolution
DO-260 (1090 MHz MOPS) Change #1 SC-186 completion Dec 2001
MASPS for Airborne Separation SC-186 completion June 2002
Assurance
MOPS for UAT SC-186 completion June 2002
MOPS for Airborne Surveillance and SC-186 completion June 2002
Separation Assurance Processing (ASSAP)
MASPS for Traffic Information SC-186 completion Mar 2002
Service, Broadcast
RTCA SC-188 -- HF Data Link
MOPS DO-265 approved 14 Dec 2000
MASPS SC-188 completion 19 Nov 2001
RTCA SC-189/EUROCAE WG-53 -- Air Traffic Services Safety and Interoperability Requirements
Guidelines for Approval of the DO-264 approved 14 Dec 2000
Provision and Use of ATC
Supported by Data Communications
RTCA SC-194 -- ATM Data Link Implementation
Concepts For Services Integrating DO-269 approved 12 June 2001
Flight Operations and Air Traffic
Management Using Addressed
Data Link
Future work: Next meetings 5-8 November 2001
WG1 Data Link Operations Concept and
Implementation Plan
WG2 Flight Operations and ATM Integration
WG3 Human Factors
RTCA SC-195 -- Flight Information Services (FIS) Communications
MASPS for FIS/B DO-267 approved 15 Mar 2001
DO-267 Change No. 1 SC-195 completed Oct 2002
RTCA SC-198 -- Next-Generation Communications (NEXCOM)
Response to the Report of the RTCA DO-273 approved 12 Oct 2001
Chairman's Committee on NEXCOM
Next-Generation Air/Ground Communi- DO-274 approved 12 Oct 2001
cations (NEXCOM), Principles
of Operation
Revised ToR adding: PMC approved 12 Oct 2001
· Principles of Operation for · SC-198 completion Jan 2002
VDL-3
· Transition plan for VDL-3 · SC-198 completion Mar 2003
Implementation
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