BAY OF BENGAL
January 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLA SOUTH Asia regional meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has agreed to set up a Central Reporting Agency (CRA), which would evaluate ground and airborne ADS/CPDLC systems performance in an operational trial for the Bay of Bengal area. The meeting heard of earlier assessments that the CRA would be "critical to enabling states to implement operational ADS and CPDLC systems", performing "the essential technical analysis of these systems (and) the investigation of system failures and other technical malfunctions." The ...
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