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 the PANS-AIM Aeronautical Data Catalogue , 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 lists the following types of ATS airspaces:
- FIR/UIR
- CTA
- TMA
- CTR
AIP context
PANS-AIM does 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.
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 5.3.2 Other regulated airspaces
- 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 AIXM 5.1.1 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, Prohibited Area, Circle | //aixm:AirspaceTimeSlice[@gml:id='ASE_VAARDNOR_P'] |
| ASE-EX-04 | Special activity airspace, Restricted Area, Arc segment (Arc by centrepoint) | //aixm:AirspaceTimeSlice[@gml:id='ASE_BRAVO_R'] |
| ASE-EX-05 | Special activity airspace, Restricted Area, Rectangle | //aixm:AirspaceTimeSlice[@gml:id='ASE_BURGENVALK_R'] |
| ASE-EX-06 | Special activity airspace, Restricted Area, reference to state boundary (annotation) | //aixm:AirspaceTimeSlice[@gml:id='ASE_WINSWUK_R'] |
| ASE-EX-07 | Special activity airspace, Local type, reference to state boundary (xlink:href) | //aixm:AirspaceTimeSlice[@gml:id='ASE_EAMOA01_MOA'] |
| ASE-EX-08 | Special activity airspace, Danger Area, Active weekday schedules | //aixm:AirspaceTimeSlice[@gml:id='ASE_HORSHAM_D'] |
| ASE-EX-09 | Special activity airspace, Danger Area, within CTR | //aixm:AirspaceTimeSlice[@gml:id='ASE_DONLON_D'] |
| ASE-EX-10 | Airspace 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-17 | ATS 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-19 | Aerial sporting activities airspace | //aixm:AirspaceTimeSlice[@gml:id='ASE_DONBURG_PARACHUTE_JUMPING_AERA'] |