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The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines and Aireon signed a partnership to leverage space-based surveillance technologies to track aircraft safety events
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CAAP and Aereon on June 26 inked a non-binding MOU that allows the former access to the latter’s Safety Dashboard — a real-time analytics tool that tracks aircraft safety events
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Under this agreement, CAAP will have a three-month trial of the Safety Dashboard Platform at no cost
The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) and Aireon, a US-based company specializing in satellite-powered air traffic surveillance, have signed a partnership to leverage space-based surveillance technologies to track aircraft safety events.
CAAP and Aereon on June 26 inked a non-binding memorandum of understanding that allows the former access to the latter’s Safety Dashboard — a real-time analytics tool that tracks aircraft safety events like Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) alerts, emergency squawks, Risk of Runway Overrun, rejected takeoffs, Time-to-Conflict and global national satellite system interference.
Under this collaborative agreement, CAAP will have a three-month trial of the Safety Dashboard Platform at no cost to the government.
CAAP in a statement said this access to Aireon’s data will be beneficial for regional data sharing with other Southeast Asian countries.
During the 59th Directors General of Civil Aviation Conference last year, civil aviation authorities from the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore signed an MOU to share aviation safety data and information to enhance safety.
The Aireon Safety Dashboard is a web-based tool that provides air navigation service providers (ANSPs) with a visual overview of key safety indicators in the airspace. It helps ANSPs identify, monitor, and analyze leading indicators of risk, such as TCAS resolution advisories, transponder alerts, and the risk of runway excursions.
Aside from the new MOU, CAAP and Aireon in December last year also signed an agreement to deploy the latter’s space-based automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) data for controlling and separating aircraft in the Manila Flight Information Region (FIR).
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The Manila FIR, one of the largest in the region at nearly three million square kilometers, has seen a significant jump in regional and overseas traffic. The adoption of Aireon surveillance data will allow air traffic controllers to have unparalleled visibility of air traffic, which is particularly important over the ocean and in remote regions.
