Purpose & Scope
These 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 Airspace.
In PANS-AIM, only ATS airspace is defined:
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).
According PANS-AIM the following types of airspaces are considered as ATS airspaces:
- FIR/UIR
- CTA
- TMA
- CTR
AIP context
For all of them, the AIXM data type codeAirspaceType provides a corresponding value.
According PANS-AIM, the following types of airspaces are considered Special Activity Airspaces:
- Prohibited Area
- Restricted Area
- Danger Area
- Military Exercise Area
- Military Training Area
- Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ)
- Other
AIP context
In an AIP, these types of airspaces 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 5.5 Aerial sporting and recreational activities
For Prohibited Area, Prohibited Area, Prohibited Area and Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ), the AIXM data type codeAirspaceType provides corresponding values. Other airspaces may be encoded as described in page Basic Data of Airspace.
AIXM Model Overview
Coding Examples
The figure below shows a simple example of a Restricted Area with the designator EAR7.
Coding Examples can be found in the AIXM DONLON ACGAIP file.
| No. | Description | XPath Expression |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ATS airspace type FIR | //aixm:Airspace//*[aixm:type='FIR'] |
| 2 | Special activity airspace type Danger Area | //aixm:Airspace//*[aixm:type='D'] |
| 3 | Transition Altitude | //aixm:AirportHeliport//aixm:transitionAltitude |