Six More Airlines Join Eurocontrol's ADS-B Trials

Six more airlines have joined Eurocontrol's ADS-B (automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast) Pioneer Airlines Project meant to help operators obtain airworthiness approval for their existing ADS-B equipment.

Air France, Air Mediterranee, Air One, Turkish Airlines, United Airlines and Volkswagen have joined the project, which was commenced last year as part of Eurocontrol's CASCADE program, which is coordinating the implementation of initial ADS-B applications in Europe.

The six carriers join 11 others that became part of the project in 2006.  In total, more than 400 aircraft, representing a range of Airbus, ATR, Boeing and Dassault aircraft types, are now involved, generating more than 500,000 ADS-B certified flights per year in European airspace. The aircraft will provide air navigation service providers with certified surveillance data that will allow them to bring their ADS-B ground stations to a state of operational readiness by late 2008 or early 2009.

In the meantime, Eurocontrol, Airservices Australia, the FAA and Nav Canada, are working together to define the ADS-B standards that will be used from 2015 onwards.  10-23-2007.

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