AVIATION SECTOR GETS CREATIVE ON IMPLEMENTING NEW TRACKING SIGNAL RULES
September 1st, 2016
THE CIVIL aviation industry and its suppliers are innovating solutions to comply with the new tracking rule from the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) which came into force in July and will be compulsory for new planes with a take-off mass exceeding 27,000kg from January 2021.
Captain Miguel Marin, ICAO Air Navigation Bureau acting chief operational safety and aircraft tracking lead, told Jane’s Airport Review that now the deadline had been imposed for aircraft to release position signals, “we leave it to industry to get creative” in working ...
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