APG15-5/INP-63

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The 5th Meeting of the APT Conference Preparatory Group for WRC-15 (APG15-5) / Document
APG15-5/INP-63
27 July – 1 August 2015, Seoul, Republic of Korea / 20 July 2015

Malaysia

views and Proposls on GLOBAL FLIGHT TRACKING FOR CIVIL AVIATION

1. Background

Resolution 185 (Busan, 2014)

The ITU Plenipotentiary Conference Busan, 2014 adopted Resolution 185 “Global Flight Tracking (GFT) for Civil Aviation”, which stipulated:

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resolves

to instruct WRC-15, pursuant to No. 119 of the ITU Convention, to include in its agenda, as a matter of urgency, the consideration of global flight tracking, including, if appropriate, and consistent with ITU practices, various aspects of the matter, taking into account ITU-R studies,

instructs the Secretary-General

to bring this resolution to the attention of WRC-15 and ICAO,

instructs the Director of the Radiocommunication Bureau

to prepare a specific report on the matter as referred to in resolves above for consideration by WRC15.

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Following the adoption of Resolution 185 to include GFT on the WRC 2015 agenda, the Director of the Radiocommunication Bureau (BR) sent a note to ITU-R Working Party (WP) 5B and WP 4C to complete, as a matter of urgency, the corresponding studies, including any guidance on possible courses of action to be taken by WRC15.

Subsequently, BR Director will prepare a “specific report” to WRC-15 on the matter, including information provided by WP 5B and WP 4C regarding the outcome of the studies conducted and any guidance on possible courses of action to be taken by WRC-15.

This matter was discussed in APG15-4 in Bangkok (09 – 14 February 2015), where ad hoc-group was formed to consider contributions from members. APT preliminary view has been developed as below:

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“APT members support studies relating to global flight tracking for civil aviation that are ongoing in the ITU Radiocommunication Sector (ITU-R) including Working Parties 5B and 4C.”

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Global Flight Tracking

Flight tracking is provided in many locations today by various terrestrial and satellite technologies.

GFT for civil aviation is understood to be the ability to provide or obtain the position and identification of an aircraft anywhere in the world i.e. over the ocean, poles, dense landmass, and remote areas where civil aircraft may operate.

In addition, requirements of GFT, as envisioned by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), are to be a performance-based, using an approach in which the report of the location and identification of the aircraft could come from various sources/systems or combination of systems.

2. Views and Proposals

Malaysia supports the development of reports by WP 5B and WP 4C relating to Global Flight Tracking (GFT).

Malaysia can support possible spectrum allocation for GFT, provided that it does not constraint existing aeronautical safety systems.

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