Purpose & Scope
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 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).
PANS-AIM lists the following types of ATS airspaces:
- FIR/UIR
- CTA
- TMA
- CTR
AIP context
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 (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 5.5 Aerial sporting and recreational activities
AIXM Model Overview
Coding Examples
The figure below shows a simple example of a Restricted Area with the designator EAR7.
More coding examples can be found in the DONLON AIXM5.1.1 AIP data set file.
| No. | Description | XPath Expression |
|---|---|---|
| ASE-EX-01 | ATS airspace, FIR | //aixm:AirspaceTimeSlice[@gml:id='ASE_AMSWELL_FIR'] |
| ASE-EX-02 | ATS airspace, TMA | //aixm:AirspaceTimeSlice[@gml:id='ASE_NIBORD_TMA'] |
| ASE-EX-03 | Special activity airspace, Danger Area | //aixm:AirspaceTimeSlice[aixm:type='D'] |
| AHP-EX-01 | Transition Altitude | //aixm:AirportHeliport//aixm:transitionAltitude |