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This page and its child pages contain the coding guidelines for the minimum and conditional data for the airspace subjects as defined in PANS-AIM, for both ATS Airspace and Special Activity Airspaceactivity airspace.

In the PANS-AIMAIM Aeronautical Data Catalogue, only ATS airspace is defined as follows:

Airspaces of defined dimensions, alphabetically designated, within which specific types of flights may operate and for which air traffic services and rules of operation are specified (PANS-AIM, Appendix 1 Aeronautical Data Catalogue).

PANS-AIM lists the following types of ATS airspaces:

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Tip
titleAIP context
In an AIP, all of these types of airspaces are published in section ENR 2.1, except CTR which is published in AD 2.17. You may also find other types of airspaces published in these sections of an AIP ( e.g. OCA, UTA, ATZ, etc.), which are not listed in PANS-AIM.

According PANS-AIM , the following types of airspaces are considered Special Activity Airspacesdoes not define Special activity airspace but is does list a set of airspace types that are considered Special activity airspaces in the Aeronautical Data Catalogue:

  • Prohibited Area
  • Restricted Area
  • Danger Area
  • Military Exercise Area
  • Military Training Area
  • Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ)
  • Other

In the PANS-AIM Aeronautical Data Catalogue also properties for 'Aerial sporting activities airspace' and 'Other regulated airspace' are defined.

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titleAIP context

In an AIP, these types of airspaces (and other types) are published in the following sections:

  • ENR 5.1 Prohibited, restricted and danger areas

  • ENR 5.2 Military exercise and training areas and air defence identification zone (ADIZ)

  • ENR 5.3.1 Other activities of a dangerous nature
  • ENR 5.3.2 Other regulated airspaces
  • ENR 5.5 Aerial sporting and recreational activities

AIXM Model Overview

Include Page
ACGAC:Airspace (Overview)ACG
AC:Airspace (Overview)

Info
titleAIXM 5.2 Improvements

A change proposal (AIXM-391) for the next AIXM 5.2 version has been approved by the AIXM Change Control Board, through which the data type TextNameBaseType is modified, allowing also the use of lowercase characters.

The coding guidelines provided here are aligned with forward/backward conversion rules contained in the AIXM-391 Change Proposal.

Coding Examples

The figure below shows a simple example of a restricted area with the designator EAR7.

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More coding examples can be found in the DONLON AIXM 5.1.1 AIP data set filethe AIP Data Set - Specimen (DONLON).

No.DescriptionXPath Expression
ASE-EX-01ATS airspace, FIR//aixm:AirspaceTimeSlice[@gml:id='ASE_AMSWELL_FIR']
ASE-EX-02ATS airspace, TMA//aixm:AirspaceTimeSlice[@gml:id='ASE_NIBORD_TMA']
ASE-EX-03Special activity airspace,  Prohibited Area, Circle

//aixm:AirspaceTimeSlice[@gml:id='ASE_VAARDNOR_P']

ASE-EX-04Special activity airspace,  Restricted Area, Arc segment (Arc by centrepoint)//aixm:AirspaceTimeSlice[@gml:id='ASE_BRAVO_R']
ASE-EX-05Special activity airspace,  Restricted Area, Rectangle//aixm:AirspaceTimeSlice[@gml:id='ASE_BURGENVALK_R']
ASE-EX-06Special activity airspace,  Restricted Area, reference to state boundary (annotation)//aixm:AirspaceTimeSlice[@gml:id='ASE_WINSWUK_R']
ASE-EX-07Special activity airspace, Local type, reference to state boundary (xlink:href)//aixm:AirspaceTimeSlice[@gml:id='ASE_EAMOA01_MOA']
ASE-EX-08Special activity airspace,  Danger Area, Active weekday schedules//aixm:AirspaceTimeSlice[@gml:id='ASE_HORSHAM_D']
ASE-EX-09Special activity airspace,  Danger Area, within CTR//aixm:AirspaceTimeSlice[@gml:id='ASE_DONLON_D']
ASE-EX-10Airspace Corridor, Alert Area//aixm:AirspaceTimeSlice[@gml:id='ASE_ACR001_A']

ASE-EX-11

ASE-EX-12

ASE-EX-13

ATS airspace, CTA (Airspace aggregation by copying the geometry), Union of two airspace components

//aixm:AirspaceTimeSlice[@gml:id='ASE_DONLON_CTA'] |

/aixm:AirspaceTimeSlice[@gml:id='ASE_DONLON1_CTA_P'] |

/aixm:AirspaceTimeSlice[@gml:id='ASE_DONLON2_CTA_P']

ASE-EX-14

ASE-EX-15

ASE-EX-16		ATS airspace, TMA,  (Airspace aggregation by referencing), Union of two parts

//aixm:AirspaceTimeSlice[@gml:id='ASE_MAGNETTO_TMA'] |

//aixm:AirspaceTimeSlice[@gml:id='ASE_MAGNETTO1_TMA_P'] |

//aixm:AirspaceTimeSlice[@gml:id='ASE_MAGNETTO2_TMA_P']
ASE-EX-17ATS airspace, CTR (Point reference using aixm:Point annotations)//aixm:AirspaceTimeSlice[@gml:id='ASE_DONLON_CTR']

ASE-EX-18

DPN-EX-06

ATS airspace, ATZ (Point reference, Using xlink:href)

//aixm:AirspaceTimeSlice[@gml:id='ASE_DONLON_ATZ'] |

//aixm:DesignatedPointTimeSlice[@gml:id='DPN_EADH'] |

ASE-EX-19Aerial sporting activities airspace//aixm:AirspaceTimeSlice[@gml:id='ASE_DONBURG_PARACHUTE_JUMPING_AERA']

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