Appendix 2 # AI Categories AI Products/Services/ Subcategories Product(s)/Features Type/Comments BSS AUS Construction/Status X Designated Movement and Non-Movement Areas X In-Ground Lighting/Status X Lighted Sign/Status X Work-in-Progress (WIP). Also known as Personnel and Equipment Working (PAEW) X Ground Markings/Lighting Status X Taxiway Surface Condition (FICON) X Braking Action X Apron (including ramp areas and parking) Construction Status X In-Ground Marking Status X In-Ground Lighting Status X Apron Surface Condition (FICON) X Page 9
Appendix 2 # AI Categories AI Products/Services/ Subcategories Product(s)/Features Type/Comments BSS AUS Lighting (Aerodrome/Airport/ Heliport) Ground Lighting System Status Commissioning, decommissioning, outages, changes in classification or operation. Includes various lighting systems. Includes approach and runway lighting and PCL status and frequency change. X NOTE: Ground lighting status needs to be harmonized with lighting listed under runway, taxiway, and apron areas.
Services (Aerodrome/Airport/ Heliport) Emergency Services Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting (ARFF) availability. X Fuel Availability Includes potential impact on flight operations,
e.g., delays possible in fueling diverting aircraft. X Fuel Quality Indicator Status Changes Fuel quality for type aircraft (e.g., the DOD issues an “F” series NOTAM for denoting compatibility of fuel in foreign countries).
X Fuel Price Status NOTE: This is not a State-provided NOTAM. X Customs Availability/Status X Page 10
Appendix 2 # AI Categories AI Products/Services/ Subcategories Product(s)/Features Type/Comments BSS AUS 2 Airspace Airspace Restrictions – Prohibited/Restricted/ Danger (P/R/D) areas (ICAO) and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) SAA SAA initiatives are broken down into first-tier and second-tier initiatives. Most DOD SAA airspace would activate static SAA data resident in an onboard database. SAA data also includes dynamic TFR status information.
X SAA – First Tier Aerial Refueling Tracks X Aerial Refueling Anchors NOTE: Not listed in SAA Concept of Operations (ConOps).
X Altitude Reservations (ALTRV) – Stationary X ATC Assigned Airspace (ATCAA) X (Military) Visual Routes (VR) X (Military) Instrument Routes (IR) X Military Operations Areas (MOA) X Orbit Areas X Prohibited Areas X Page 11
Appendix 2 # AI Categories AI Products/Services/ Subcategories Product(s)/Features Type/Comments BSS AUS Restricted Areas X Special Flight Rules Areas (SFRA) X TFRs X Section 91.137(a)(1) – Protect persons and property on the surface or in the air from a hazard associated with an incident on the surface.
Example: Chemical spills, volcanic eruptions.
X Section 91.137(a)(2) – Provide a safe environment for the operation of disaster relief aircraft. Example: firefighting, avalanche control.
X Section 91.137(a)(3) – Prevent an unsafe congestion of sightseeing and other aircraft above an incident or event which may generate a high degree of public interest. Example: Outdoor assembly, aircraft accident site.
X Section 91.138 – Temporary flight restrictions in national disaster areas in the State of Hawaii. X Section 91.141 – Flight restrictions in the proximity of the Presidential and other parties.
Example: Presidential and other VIP movements.
X Section 91.143 – Flight limitation in the proximity of space flight operations. Example X Page 12
Appendix 2 # AI Categories AI Products/Services/ Subcategories Product(s)/Features Type/Comments BSS AUS areas include: Cape Canaveral AFS, NASA Wallops. Launches include military, commercial, and NASA operations.
Section 91.144 – Temporary restriction on flight operations during abnormally high barometric pressure conditions. Example: Flight operations in Alaska.
X Section 91.145 – Management of aircraft operations in the vicinity of aerial demonstrations and major sporting events. Examples:
Super Bowl, Indy 500, air shows involving highperformance aircraft aerobatic teams.
X 14 CFR part 99, § 99.7 – Special security instructions. Example: Certain military facilities, potential terrorist targets. Examples: Nuclear power plants, specific military installations.
X Temporary Special Use Airspace (SUA) Temporarily expands existing airspace in support of DOD requirements X Warning Areas X SAA – Second Tier Aerobatics Areas X Aircraft Manufacturers’ Test Airspace X Alert Areas X Commercial Space Launch and Reentry Areas X Glider Operations Areas X Page 13
Appendix 2 # AI Categories AI Products/Services/ Subcategories Product(s)/Features Type/Comments BSS AUS Parachute Jumping Areas X Controlled Airspace Change in hours of operation of the controlling facility Includes applicable radio frequency connectivity to controlling facility.
X Terminal Maneuvering Area (TMA)/Control area (CTA)/Controlled zone (CTR) Status Facility providing ATC control closed ICAO TMA/CTA/CTR terms replaced by class of airspace in the United States. X 3 Services ATC Facility Hours of operation Includes the resulting airspace definition when ATC services are not available. Also includes times of operation of temporary air traffic control towers and functions.
X Weather Automated Weather Services Status X FIS-B/UAT FIS-B Service Volume and Status X ADS-B/Traffic Information Service – Broadcast (TIS-B) ADS-R/TIS-B Service Volume and Status X Ground Broadcast Transceiver (GBT) Location Changes X 4 Points and Navigational Aids (NAVAID) Waypoints and fixes Changes in names, locations, and/or restrictions In the United States, generally handled via Procedure NOTAMs. X NAVAIDs Status of ground-based navigation facilities including commissioning/ decommissioning, X Page 14
Appendix 2 # AI Categories AI Products/Services/ Subcategories Product(s)/Features Type/Comments BSS AUS out-of-service, unmonitored, and unusable areas.
NOTE: List is incomplete as there are many more NAVAID products and/or features that could be added here, such as hazardous in-flight weather advisory (HIWAS), Very high frequency Omnidirectional Range (VOR) voice, distance measuring equipment (DME), instrument landing system (ILS), markers, etc.
Whether Class 1 NAVAID monitoring is unavailable X ILS glide slope changes due to X snow Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Infrastructure GNSS Constellation/Outage Status X GNSS Unreliable Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) potentially unreliable for navigation X GPS potentially unreliable for surveillance X Page 15
Appendix 2 # AI Categories AI Products/Services/ Subcategories Product(s)/Features Type/Comments BSS AUS 5 Communications Frequencies Frequency Change Notices NOTE: List is incomplete as there are many other Comm NOTAMs and/or features that could be added here.
X 6 Surveillance Radar Radar System Status Includes loss of Radar coverage due to temporary wind turbine interference, loss of secondary radar coverage.
X Other surveillance means TIS-B/ADS-B Status X 7 Procedures Land and Hold Short Operations (LAHSO) Temporary changes Includes changes resulting from temporary changes in the LDA, or temporary changes in runway signage, marking or lighting.
X Departures/SIDs Changes to SIDs Includes decluttering logic. X Arrivals/STARs Changes to STARs Includes decluttering logic. X IAP Includes RNAV/RNP procedures available NOTAMs/Digital Automatic Terminal System (D-ATIS) messages when available. X Changes to IAPs X Holding procedure changes Changes to procedures; holding air speed changes X Page 16
Appendix 2 # AI Categories AI Products/Services/ Subcategories Product(s)/Features Type/Comments BSS AUS Other (e.g., Obstacle Departure Procedure (ODP)) Changes to required minimum climb gradients X Changes to minimums due to lighting outages or other environmental reasons X 8 Routes Airways Changes in the Airway Minimum En Route Altitude (MEA) In U.S., generally handled via procedural NOTAMs. X Tracks North Atlantic (NAT)/Pacific Tracks Daily updates. X 9 Obstructions Obstructions, including towers, cranes, stacks, etc.
Includes permanent as well as temporary obstruction changes/ status X Obstruction lighting outage changes/status X Wind turbines Includes new single- and multiple-site wind turbine changes/status NOTE: Charted wind turbines located in BSS section. X Temporary obstruction status Moored balloons and kites Example: High-Altitude Aerostat in Florida Keys. X Tall vessels in a ship channel, near airports Highly dynamic. Examples: General Edward Lawrence Logan INTL (KBOS); Philadelphia INTL (KPHL).
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Appendix 2 # AI Categories AI Products / Services / Subcategories Product(s) / Features Type / Comments BSS AUS Unlit obstructions Applies to uncharted obstructions. X 10 Miscellaneous Airspace Hazard Alerts Laser Light Activity – Planned Planned/scheduled (non-hostile) activity. X Laser Light Activity – Hostile Requires immediate NOTAM issuance by ATC. X Solar Flare Activity Expected impact on the National Airspace System (NAS) and international flight operations. X Noise-Sensitive Areas Daily noise sensitive areas Activates noise sensitive areas (stored as BSS).
Daily cumulative noise NOTAMs support VFR noise reduction procedures, AC category of use, and RNAV (RNP) approach and departure routings. X Bird Activity Bird Activity – Migratory Bird Activity – Local Off-airport Areas (e.g., landfills) NOTE: Could impact unmanned aircraft operations. X Bird Activity – On or in the Could make use of advanced sensor technology vicinity of the airport such as new foreign object damage (FOD) systems and Internet-based data collection systems. X 11 Other Pointer NOTAMs X Graphical NOTAMs Graphical NOTAMs currently published in FAA’s NTAP;
includes complex textual and/or graphical procedures Published as required, in support of specific events.
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Appendix 3 APPENDIX 3. ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS Terminology or Explanation Acronym A/FD Airport/Facility Directory AAtS Aircraft Access to SWIM AC Advisory Circular ACARS Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System AD Aerodrome ADS-B Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast AFS FAA Flight Standards Service AFSS Automated Flight Service Station AI Aeronautical Information AIM Aeronautical Information Manual AIP Aeronautical Information Publication AIR FAA Aircraft Certification Service AIRAC Aeronautical Information Regulation and Control AIRMET Airmen’s Meteorological Information AIS Aeronautical Information Services AIXM Aeronautical Information Exchange Model AMDAR Aircraft Meteorological Data Relay Page 1
Appendix 3 Terminology or Explanation Acronym ANSP Air Navigation Service Provider AOC Airline Operations Center AR Authorization Required ARP SAE Aerospace Recommended Practices ARTCC Air Route Traffic Control Center ASDE-X Airport Surface Detection Equipment, Model X ASOS Automated Surface Observing System ATC Air Traffic Control ATIS Automated Terminal Information Service ATM Air Traffic Management ATS Air Traffic Service ATSP Air Traffic Service Provider AUS Data Link Aeronautical Update Service AWOS Automated Weather Observing System BIRDTAM Bird Notice to Airmen BSS Data Link Baseline Synchronization Service CAA Civil Aviation Authority CDM Collaborative Decision Making Page 2