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AIR TRANSPORT NAVIGATION EMMA KELLY /PERTH Australia gears up to install nationwide ADS-B system Airservices to issue tenders for deployment which will be most extensive to date Airservices Australia's board has almost nationwide surveillance aviation aircraft and helicopters, approved a project to install capability above flight level 300 The service provider says that automatic dependent-surveillance (30,OO0ft/9,150m), says Airservices. ADS-B can provide radar-like sur- broadcast (ADS-B) ground stations Airservices was due to issue ten- veillance throughout the country throughout the country in what ders for the programme last week, at a tenth of the cost of radar cover- will be the most extensive deploy- calling for the ground stations to age. Reduced separation standards ment of the technology to date. be operational by the end of 2005. with ADS-B will allow more aircraft The Australian air traffic service Position and altitude data from to fly at optimum levels, reducing provider proposed earlier this year ADS-B-equipped aircraft will be operating costs and emissions, an ADS-B upper airspace pro- automatically transmitted by the Airservices sought operator feed- gramme that would involve the ground stations to Airservices' con- back earlier this year. Airlines sup- installation of 20 ADS-B ground trol centres in Brisbane and port it, but would require early stations throughout Australia. Melbourne, where the data will be returns on investment and priority Currently radar coverage is only integrated with the Thales-based in the air traffic control system, provided on the eastern and south Australian Advanced Air Traffic The service provider says ADS-B- eastern seaboards and over Darwin System (TAAATS). equipped aircraft will receive opera- in the north and Perth in the west, Airservices already has one tional priority. It expects many air- with the rest of the country subject ADS-B ground station, supplied by lines to implement ADS-B when to procedural control services. The Sensis, installed near Bundaberg in they install Mode S Enhanced and ADS-B ground stations with the Queensland as part of a trial Elementary surveillance capabilities, radar network would provide involving regional and general required in Europe by mid-2005. MARKETPLACE • Japan Airlines (JAL) has firmed up a deal to acquire seven General Electric CF6-80C2B7F- powered Boeing 767-300ERs through an operating lease arrangement with Mitsubishi. The lease deal is seen by indus try observers as a "stopgap" measure aimed at meeting fleet modernisation requirements until Boeing 7E7s can be acquired later this decade. Deliveries will begin next year and continue through September 2006. • Southern Air has purchased two ex-KLM Boeing 747-200s -one -200 Special Freighter and one -200B combi Stretched Upper Deck - in a deal arranged by Cabot Aviation. • GE Capital Aviation Services has placed three Boeing 737-300 freighters with Iceland-based Bluebird Cargo. The aircraft are being converted to freighters by Israel Aircraft Industries and will be delivered from April 2004. • Kalitta Air has purchased an ex-China Airlines 747-200 freighter in a deal arranged by Focus Aviation. % WINGS Before we worked in partnership with the most important companies worldwide to design, develop and manufacture aerospace propulsion systems at the forefront of technology. We carried out MR&O services for several global airlines ensuring hours and hours of flight in perfect safety Now we will continue to do this JcU.(J -Y"[''<^U.->c <=je><?S Ow Avio S.p.A. - Vide I Maggio, 99 10040 Rivalta di Torino (Turin), Italy -vvww.aviogroup.it Avio will be present at the Aviation Expo China 2003 Beijing, September 17-20, Hall 8 - Stand 13
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