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 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'] |