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Apart from existing functions like flight plan filing of data from multiple sources. How to use and
(with change, delay, and cancelation messages) validate the data is crucial in developing UTM
and notification (movement messages), new airspace. Other sessions included Cooperative
services are introduced. These include a Planning Separation of Stratospheric Operations – these
Service for operators to receive feedback on were primarily from Loon and Airbus Zephyr.
available routings considering constraints and a Their launches now are primarily from Australia
Trial Service which tests potential changes on a and the US in Class G airspace, then going
“what if” basis. Later functions of FF-ICE/R2 build through Class B, A and then F. They make use of
on a Connected Aircraft (CA) Concept to improve Temporary restricted airspace for their launch and
the trajectory inflight. recovery. Within the upper airspace they utilize
a form of UTM taken from best practices today,
The deliverables of FF-ICE/R1 should be approved however the density of aircraft is far less. Other
during the next meeting. This comprises proposed sessions included, UAS Operations over the High
amendments to Annex 2, PANS-AIM and PANS Seas; comparison on how Drones are regulated
ATM and the new ICAO Doc 9965 Manual on and Deconfliction and Separation Management.
FF-ICE with Volume I – Concept and Volume II - The next Drone Enable will be in Rio de Janeiro,
Implementation Guidance. The meeting discussed Brazil, 9-11 September 2020.
comments made on these documents, noted
the experiences of tabletop exercises and the ICAO Separation and Airspace Safety Panel (SASP)
development status of connected applications The 33rd working group meetings of the SASP
like FIXM. was held at ICAO Montreal 12-22 November 2019.
As with all SASP meetings it was a full agenda
A “notional sunset date” of 2030 was proposed that covered a range of subjects from En-route
for FPL2012 but it will be challenging to convince separation minima and procedures – horizontal,
all stakeholders. New prefixed codes in flight plan En-route separation minima and procedures –
field 18 under NAV/ and SUR/ were proposed vertical; Terminal area separation minima and
for PBN (e.g. “NAV/ PBNM1M2) and ADS-B procedures; Safety assessment methodologies for
respectively. A tri-panel coordination meeting the future ATM environment as well as Reduced
of the ATMOPSP, CP-OPDLWG and ATMRPP is Vertical Separation Minima (RVSM) issues and
planned for mid-2020. The next meeting is the High Altitude Balloon Operations. Areas of note
full panel meeting, ATMRPP/4 in Montreal, 23 - included the Development of PBCS network
27 March 2020, followed by WG/39 in November outage contingency procedures, an update on
2020. Contingency Hazard Areas, and the development
of an Implementation Manual for separation
ICAO Drone Enable/3 minima using ATS surveillance systems where VHF
The DE/3 was held from Nov 12-14, 2019 in voice communication is not available, particularly
ICAO, there were approximately 1200 delegates weather deviations, allowing turns in ITP.
in attendance. As a symposium, this event was
mostly about presentations and education – ICAO Secretariat Study Group on Cybersecurity
there are no statements, policies, SARPs, or the (SSGC)
like that come out of a Symposium. Updates The seventh meeting of the ICAO Secretariat
from ICAO included the fact that there is now a Study Group on Cybersecurity (SSGC) took
dedicated UAS section of the ICAO public website. place at the beginning of December. The main
In addition to other important information, ICAO activity of the meeting was the drafting of the
has published model UAS regulations which are ICAO Cybersecurity Action Plan requested by the
purely to be used as a template. ICAO Assembly. The majority of time during this
meeting was dedicated to writing the action plan,
There are still many safety considerations with which was evaluated sentence by sentence. It is
respect to overloading the 1090MHz spectrum hoped that eventually the end goal should have
especially if UAS all start using ADS-B. There were a risk management system that includes safety,
some interesting presentations on building UTM security, and cybersecurity. However, that may be
airspace which are dependent on the collection too ambitious for now.