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PANS-AIM requires for the DME an elevation to be coded. The DME.location will be coded with the ElevatedPoint.elevation attribute.

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titleOpen question elevation for Navaid feature

Has also the ElevatedPoint.elevation for the Navaid.location be coded?

Depending on the type of DME, different accuracy is required.  In AIXM, the ElevatedPoint.verticalAccuracy attribute is provided for that purpose (according to PANS-AIM Appendix 1, Table A1-5, for DME.type equal-to 'PRECISION' 3m accuracy is required; for all other types it is 30m (100ft)).

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Coding examples can also be found in the Sample AIP Data Set - Specimen (DONLON):

No.DescriptionXPath Expression

NAV-EX-01

VOR-EX-01

DME-EX-01

VOR/DME

//aixm:NavaidTimeSlice [@gml:id ='NAV_BOR'] |

//aixm:VORTimeSlice [@gml:id ='VOR_BOR'] |

//aixm:DMETimeSlice [@gml:id ='DME_BOR']

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