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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-94 <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.3.2.2.2.3.4 Altitude rate<br />

The 2-bit altitude rate field shall indicate whether the alert aircraft is climbing, descending, or level. An altitude rate of<br />

500 ft/min shall be used as a threshold. The encoding of the TIS altitude rate field shall be:<br />

A.3.2.2.2.3.5 Traffic heading<br />

Altitude rate field value Altitude rate<br />

0 Unused<br />

1 Climbing (>500 ft/min)<br />

2 Descending (>500 ft/min)<br />

3 Level<br />

The 3-bit traffic heading field shall contain the heading of the alert aircraft quantized to 45-degree increments. This<br />

heading shall be based on the <strong>Mode</strong> S ground interrogator track <strong>for</strong> the alert aircraft.<br />

Note.— The coarse quantization of traffic heading is sufficient to aid the pilot receiving the TIS alert message to<br />

visually acquire the traffic alert aircraft.<br />

A.3.2.2.2.3.6 Traffic status<br />

The 1-bit traffic status field shall identify the type of alert represented by this traffic in<strong>for</strong>mation block. A status value of<br />

“ZERO” shall indicate a “proximity” alert <strong>and</strong> a status value of “ONE” shall indicate a “threat” alert.<br />

A.3.2.2.2.4 H<strong>and</strong>ling multiple TIS alerts<br />

As described above, the traffic data in<strong>for</strong>mation <strong>for</strong> a given scan shall consist of one or more TIS traffic data messages.<br />

The last traffic in<strong>for</strong>mation block of the last TIS uplink message <strong>for</strong> this scan shall be a null-alert block if there is an odd<br />

number of alert aircraft in this message. The null-alert condition shall be indicated by the value 63 decimal in the traffic<br />

bearing field of the traffic in<strong>for</strong>mation block.<br />

Draft<br />

A.3.2.2.2.4.1 The TIS traffic in<strong>for</strong>mation blocks within a given TIS traffic data message shall be arranged with the highest<br />

priority alerts first. All traffic in<strong>for</strong>mation blocks with the status “threat” shall precede traffic in<strong>for</strong>mation blocks with the<br />

status “proximity”. Within a status class, the traffic in<strong>for</strong>mation blocks shall be put in order of increasing traffic range.<br />

Note.— This ordering ensures that the most critical traffic alerts will be at the head of the list of traffic in<strong>for</strong>mation<br />

blocks. There<strong>for</strong>e, TIS will report on the most significant aircraft up to the limit of the number of messages transferable in<br />

one scan.<br />

A.3.2.2.3 TIS TRAFFIC DATA MESSAGES GROUPING MECHANISM<br />

A.3.2.2.3.1 The mechanism <strong>for</strong> grouping TIS traffic data messages <strong>for</strong> a given scan shall be based on the message<br />

type field in each message as described in §3.2.2.2.<br />

A.3.2.2.3.2 Since the <strong>Mode</strong> S Comm-A protocol can deliver multiple copies of the same message, the initial step in<br />

message grouping shall be a check to eliminate duplicate messages. This shall be accomplished by a bit comparison of<br />

successive messages received with the same message type.<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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