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:
| 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. |
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:
In the PANS-AIM Aeronautical Data Catalogue also properties for 'Aerial sporting activities airspace' and 'Other regulated airspace' are defined.
In an AIP, these types of airspaces (and other types) are published in the following sections:
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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. |
The figure below shows a simple example of a restricted area with the designator EAR7.
More coding examples can be found in the AIP Data Set - Specimen (DONLON).
| 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'] |