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Technical Provisions for Mode S Services and Extended Squitter

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DRAFT - Working Paper ASP TSGWP11-01 <strong>for</strong> review by the TSG during the meeting in June 2011 in Paris<br />

A-92 <strong>Technical</strong> <strong>Provisions</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Mode</strong> S <strong>Services</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Extended</strong> <strong>Squitter</strong><br />

A.3.2.2.2.3 Traffic in<strong>for</strong>mation block<br />

Each TIS traffic data message shall contain two 21-bit traffic in<strong>for</strong>mation blocks whose structure is shown below. The six<br />

fields in a traffic in<strong>for</strong>mation block shall describe one TIS alert aircraft. One TIS traffic data message shall be able to<br />

define one or two alert aircraft.<br />

Note.— A number ‘n’ of TIS traffic data messages may be uplinked in a given scan to convey in<strong>for</strong>mation on up to<br />

2n alert aircraft.<br />

Traffic bearing Traffic range Relative altitude Altitude rate Traffic heading Traffic status<br />

A.3.2.2.2.3.1 Traffic bearing<br />

6 bits 4 bits 5 bits 2 bits 3 bits 1 bit<br />

The 6-bit traffic bearing field shall contain the bearing angle from the own-aircraft heading to the alert aircraft, quantized<br />

in 6 degree increments. The valid range <strong>for</strong> the traffic bearing field shall be 0 to 59 (with the exception described below).<br />

Note.— Since this bearing angle is defined by TIS with respect to its measured own-aircraft heading, corrections<br />

from an airborne heading source can be applied.<br />

If there is only one alert aircraft in a given TIS traffic data message, the traffic bearing field in the unused traffic<br />

in<strong>for</strong>mation block shall be set to the value 63 (a bearing angle greater than 360 degrees) <strong>and</strong> the remainder of the bits in<br />

the traffic in<strong>for</strong>mation block shall be ignored. This shall be termed as a “null alert” block.<br />

A.3.2.2.2.3.2 Traffic range<br />

The 4-bit traffic range field shall contain the distance between own-aircraft <strong>and</strong> the alert aircraft. A non-linear range<br />

encoding shall be used to minimize the number of bits required <strong>for</strong> this field as follows:<br />

Traffic range<br />

value (r)<br />

Range<br />

(in increments of 230 m (0.125 NM))<br />

Draft<br />

0 0 < r ≤ 1<br />

1 1 < r ≤ 3<br />

2 3 < r ≤ 5<br />

3 5 < r ≤ 7<br />

4 7 < r ≤ 9<br />

5 9 < r ≤ 11<br />

6 11 < r ≤ 13<br />

7 13 < r ≤ 15<br />

8 15 < r ≤ 18<br />

9 18 < r ≤ 22<br />

10 22 < r ≤ 28<br />

11 28 < r ≤ 36<br />

12 36 < r ≤ 44<br />

13 44 < r ≤ 52<br />

14 52 < r ≤ 56<br />

15 r > 56<br />

DRAFT - Working Paper ASP TSGWP11-01 <strong>for</strong> review by the TSG during the meeting in June 2011 in Paris

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