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a reliable indicator of safety perfor- essary Working Papers for the ADOP. Working Group 5 is the Operations
mance worldwide. Aerodrome Design and Operations Group and IFALPA assisted in the work
Panel and Instrument Flight Proce- to convert the existing Part IV to An-
Obstacle Limitation Surface Task dures Panel (IFPP). nex 6 into the required format as re-
Force (OLSTF) quested by the ICAO Secretariat and
The Task Force has been working over Performance Based Navigation this is now broadly aligned with An-
a number of years, reviewing the cur- Study Group (PBN SG) nex 6 Part I. A new Working Group
rent Obstacle Limitation Surfaces The Study Group is nearing the end has been formed to rewrite the RPAS
(OLS) and working on revised surfaces of a long process of rewriting the PBN Manual. The Manual will be in 2 vol-
that would reflect the type of opera- Manual. This meeting in March was umes; Volume 1 will contain an Over-
tions and aircraft in use today. In ad- primarily an editorial meeting as there view of RPAS International IFR Opera-
dition, as the new surfaces; Obstacle is a need to complete the manual by tions; and Volume II will contain the
Free Surface (OFS) and Obstacle Eval- the end of the July meeting. The man- Implementation of RPAS Provisions.
uation Surface (OES) will require an ual would then be sent out to various The Working Group (WG 8) will be
Aeronautical Study, the Task Force has ICAO Panels (NSP/SASP/ATMOPSP/ made up from representatives from
now developed a full description of an FLTOPSP/IFPP) for comment 26 Au- all the other WGs.
Aeronautical Study and how to do this gust - 25 October. However, there
Study. were still outstanding issues related ICAO Panel Project Team (PPT) for
Advanced RNP and VNAV which took the next edition of the Global Air
This meeting resulted in the consoli- most of the week long meeting to re- Navigation Plan (GANP) Face to
dation of several concepts and the TF solve. Face Meeting (F2F)
now has a firm proposal for revised The Panel Project Team (PPT) was set
surfaces. Further coordination will be Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems up to help develop all the various
necessary with the Instrument Flight Panel RPASP threads and modules for the Aviation
Procedures Panel (IFPP) to ensure the This was the first of three Panel meet- System Block Upgrades (ASBUs) which
proposed surfaces do not pose any ings planned for this year. Work con- form part of the Global Air Navigation
issues with existing and future proce- tinued in the working groups devel- Plan (GANP).
dures. oping Standards and Recommended
Practices (SARPS) and guidance mate- Most of the work of the PPT has been
The next meeting will be for an edito- rial for the integration of international carried by selected ICAO Panel mem-
rial team to work on the text for Aero- IFR operations by Remotely Piloted bers and updated via conference calls
nautical Studies and prepare any nec- Aircraft (RPAs). but this face to face meeting was to