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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 />

Appendix B B-25<br />

B.2.3.10.9.1 Recommendations.—<br />

1. SIL is intended to reflect the integrity of the navigation source of the position in<strong>for</strong>mation broadcast, there<strong>for</strong>e<br />

the SIL value transmitted should be indicative of the true integrity of the ADS-B position data.<br />

2. If SIL in<strong>for</strong>mation is not provided by the navigation source, implementers should not arbitrarily set an SIL value<br />

of zero indicating unknown integrity.<br />

3. Unless there is a tightly coupled navigation source where SIL can be unambiguously determined <strong>and</strong> set<br />

dynamically, the ADS-B Transmitting Subsystem should provision <strong>for</strong> the static setting of SIL as part of the<br />

installation procedure.<br />

B.2.3.10.10 BAROMETRIC ALTITUDE INTEGRITY CODE (NICBARO)<br />

This 1-bit (ME bit 53, message bit 85) subfield shall be used to indicate whether or not the barometric pressure-altitude<br />

being reported in the airborne position message has been crosschecked against another source of pressure-altitude.<br />

The NICBARO subfield shall be encoded as shown in the following table. If an update has not been received from an onboard<br />

data source <strong>for</strong> NICBARO within the past 5 seconds, then the NICBARO subfield shall be encoded as a value of<br />

ZERO (0).<br />

Coding Meaning<br />

0<br />

1<br />

The barometric altitude that is being reported in the Airborne<br />

Position Message is based on a Gilham coded input that has not<br />

been cross-checked against another source of pressure-altitude<br />

The barometric altitude that is being reported in the Airborne<br />

Position Message is either based on a Gilham code input that has<br />

been cross-checked against another source of pressure-altitude<br />

<strong>and</strong> verified as being consistent, or is based on a non-Gilham<br />

coded source<br />

Draft<br />

Note 1.— The barometric altitude value itself is conveyed within the ADS-B Position Message.<br />

B.2.3.10.10.1 The NICBARO subfield provides a method of indicating a level of data integrity <strong>for</strong> aircraft installed with<br />

Gilham encoding barometric altitude sources. Because of the potential of an undetected error when using a Gilham<br />

encoded altitude source, a comparison shall be per<strong>for</strong>med with a second source <strong>and</strong> only if the two sources agree shall<br />

the NICBARO subfield be set to a value of “1”. For other barometric altitude sources (Synchro or DADS) the integrity of<br />

the data is indicated with a validity flag or SSM. No additional checks or comparisons are necessary. For these sources<br />

the NICBARO subfield shall be set to a value of “1” whenever the barometric altitude is valid.<br />

B.2.3.10.11 AIRCRAFT LENGTH AND WIDTH CODES<br />

This 4-bit (ME bits 21–24, message bits 53–56) subfield shall be used in the surface aircraft operational status message<br />

(subtype=1) to describe the amount of space that an Aircraft or Ground Vehicle occupies. The A/V length <strong>and</strong> width<br />

code shall be based on the actual dimensions of the transmitting Aircraft or Surface Vehicle as specified in the following<br />

table. Each aircraft or vehicle shall be assigned the smallest A/V length <strong>and</strong> width code consistent with its actual<br />

dimensions. Each A/V shall be assigned the smallest A/V length <strong>and</strong> width codes from the following table <strong>for</strong> which the<br />

actual length <strong>and</strong> width is less than or equal to specified upper bounds.<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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