EANPG/49 - REPORT INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION REPORT OF THE FORTY-NINTH MEETING OF THE EUROPEAN AIR NAVIGATION PLANNING GROUP (Paris, 27 to 29 November 2007) PREPARED BY THE EUROPEAN AND NORTH ATLANTIC OFFICE OF ICAO NOVEMBER 2007 The designations and the presentation of material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of ICAO concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. i European Air Navigation Planning Group i TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF CONCLUSIONS ............................................................................................................................ iv LIST OF DECISIONS .................................................................................................................................... v 0. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................... 1 Place and Duration .................................................................................................................................... 1 Attendance................................................................................................................................................. 1 Officers and Secretariat ............................................................................................................................. 1 Conclusions and Decisions........................................................................................................................ 1 Agenda....................................................................................................................................................... 1 1. REVIEW OF SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENTS.............................................................................. 2 Election of the President of the ICAO Council ......................................................................................... 2 Action by the Air Navigation Commission and the Council on the EANPG/48 Report........................... 2 Increasing the efficiency of PIRGs............................................................................................................ 2 Comprehensive Regional Implementation Plan for Aviation Safety in Africa ......................................... 2 Special AFI RAN Meeting ........................................................................................................................ 3 ICAO 36th Assembly ................................................................................................................................3 Developments in the EUR/NAT Office..................................................................................................... 3 Proposal for a Fifth Edition of Doc 7030 .................................................................................................. 4 SATCOM Data Link performance issues.................................................................................................. 4 2. PREVIOUS EANPG FOLLOW UP ...................................................................................................... 4 3. AVIATION SAFETY.............................................................................................................................. 5 ATM safety framework monitoring .......................................................................................................... 5 Reporting and analysis system .................................................................................................................. 5 ATM safety – double regulation in some ICAO EUR Region States ....................................................... 6 4. PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION ISSUES .............................................................................. 7 Proposals for amendments of ICAO provisions.................................................................................... 7 Mandatory guarding of emergency channel 121.5 MHz........................................................................... 7 Use of SSR code A2000 and the carriage and operation of SSR mode S airborne equipment ................. 8 Use of discrete codes to maintain individual aircraft identification .......................................................... 8 Carriage and operation of SSR Mode-S airborne equipment .................................................................... 9 24 bit aircraft address in the flight plan................................................................................................... 10 Formation flights in the EUR RVSM airspace........................................................................................ 10 Flexible Use of Airspace ......................................................................................................................... 11 Proposal for amendment to Annex 15 ..................................................................................................... 12 Short term conflict alert (STCA) procedures .......................................................................................... 13 Tactical parallel offset ............................................................................................................................. 13 Proposal for amendment to Part VI – Meteorology of the EUR Basic Air Navigation Plan .................. 15 Communications, Navigation and Surveillance .................................................................................. 15 Communication roadmap ........................................................................................................................ 15 Implementation of 8.33 kHz channel spacing ......................................................................................... 17 Implementation of SAFIRE..................................................................................................................... 18 Data link services implementation .......................................................................................................... 19 VHF Data Link sub-band ........................................................................................................................ 20 Data Link Steering Group (DLSG) report............................................................................................... 21 Digital broadcast/Aeronautical systems immunity.................................................................................. 22 EANPG49 Report 2006 ii European Air Navigation Planning Group ii Aviation spectrum pricing ....................................................................................................................... 23 AMHS address register............................................................................................................................ 24 AFS location indicator............................................................................................................................. 25 AFS training, documentation and development study issues .................................................................. 27 24-bit aircraft address.............................................................................................................................. 28 RNAV-1 Infrastructure assessment procedure ........................................................................................ 29 Language proficiency requirements..................................................................................................... 29 Language Proficiency Requirements Implementation Workshops ......................................................... 29 Language Proficiency Testing Requirements.......................................................................................... 30 Action Plan to assist States in implementing the language proficiency requirements ............................ 31 Aeronautical Information Services ...................................................................................................... 31 Aeronautical Information Management (AIM) ....................................................................................... 31 Electronic Terrain and Obstacle Data (eTOD) ........................................................................................ 34 Meteorology............................................................................................................................................ 37 Guidance on the use of the term “Meteorological Authority”................................................................. 37 Status of implementation of the IAVW in the EUR Region ................................................................... 37 Implementation of SIGMET and AIRMET............................................................................................. 38 Transition to an optimized regional OPMET exchange scheme (RODEX)............................................ 38 Implementation of the new provision related to TAF in Amendment 74 to Annex 3............................. 39 MET support to ATM.............................................................................................................................. 40 Revised Terms of Reference of METG................................................................................................... 40 5. MONITORING.....................................................................................................................................