ANI/WG/1 — WP/06International Civil Aviation Organization 24/07/13North American, Central American and Caribbean Office (NACC) First NAM/CAR Air Navigation Implementation Working Group Meeting (ANI/WG/1) Mexico City, Mexico, 29 July to 1 August 2013

Agenda Item 4: Air Navigation Matters

Progress reports of the former Subregional Working Groups

FINAL REPORT OF CA/ANE/WG

(Presented by President of the CA/ANE/WG)

SUMMARY This note has the purpose of informing to the meeting the progress and agreements achieved through coordination made with the States of Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, during the existence of the CA/ANE/WG and the advances of COCESNA in Central America, in relation to the RBANIP regional objectives of performance (RPO).

References: RBANIP version May, 2011; IPBN ACNA COCESNA version August 10, 2011; and Final report of the Seventh Central American Air Navigation

Experts Working Group Meeting (CA/ANE/WG/7), México, City México, 5 to 9 July, 2012.

Strategic Objectives

This working paper is related to Strategic Objectives: A. Safety – Enhance global civil aviation safety C. Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development of Air Transport

1. Introduction 1.1 The working group of experts in air navigation of Central America (CA/ANE/WG) worked since its inception by mandate of the board of Directors of Central America Civil aviation, through annual meetings, having the last meeting CA/ANE/WG/7, held in Mexico City, Mexico, 5 to 9 March, 2012. 1.2 Under a scheme where there are committees who are represented by coordinators and who would report to the President of the CA/ANE/WG, it counted with the collaboration of specialists from States and COCESNA, in the areas of: AGA, AIM ATM, CNS, MET, SAR and SMS. So in this report we want to note the gratitude to those who collaborated with the activities, follow-up and support to the CA/ANE/WG. Also a special thanks to the specialists of the ICAO NACC Regional Office, they oriented very well the work of the Group since its inception.

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1.3 With the creation of the ANI/WG, the board of Directors of Central America Civil Aviation and COCESNA agreed on the consolidation of the regional working groups, as well as in being part of the new structure of the Group NAM/CAR/ANI/WG. At the same time indicating that through the Technical Committee of COCESNA there will be a follow-up to AIM, ATM and CNS topics. 1.4 CA/ANE/WG developed its activities in follow-up to the conclusions of the meetings of the board of Directors of Civil Aviation of Central America, of the meetings of Directors of Civil Aviation of North America, Central America and Caribbean (NACC/DCA) and in reference to the document RPBANIP, may 2011 version, approved by the NACC/DCA/4, and the PBN Implementation Plan (IPBN) in its version of the August 10, 2011, presenting the corresponding advance in the ANI/WG/1. 2. Follow up on the progress of the implementation of Regional Performance Objective

(RPO/PRP) in Central America 2.1 The Appendix to this note shows a compilation of the most important advances of COCESNA in collaboration with the States of Central America, in accordance with regional performance (ORP/RPO) objectives and the tasks of the plan of action for the regional PBN implementation. 3. Suggested action 3.1 We invite the meeting to take in consideration the contents of this working paper and its appendix.

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APENDIX

RPO1. - OPTIMIZATION OF THE STRUCTURE OF ATS ROUTES IN THE ENROUTE AIRSPACE COCESNA has supported the implementation of 18 RNAV routes in the upper airspace of the Flight Information Region (FIR) of Central America, expecting to add a minimum of eleven (11) more routes in 2013, thus providing benefits for efficiency in:

Reductions in fuel consumption; Aircraft capacity of flying closer to their favorite paths of flight; Increase the airspace capacity ; and Promote the use of advanced technologies (e.g., based on FMS arrivals) and ATC

decision making support tools (e.g., separation and sequencing), therefore the promotion of these technologies will increase efficiency

RPO 2.- IMPLEMENTATION OF THE FLEXIBLE USE OF AIRSPACE (FUA)

a) COCESNA knows that there are ATS agreements between the military

authorities and the Central American States. Some of them have established civil-military coordination committees; and

b) Coordination’s were made with the State of Belize for the reduction of prohibited

area (MZP1) in the path of Phillip S. Goldson international airport runway 07 approach, and suggestion where made to the State of Honduras to consider the reduction of the restricted area (MHR5), as well as to take in consideration of the reduction or elimination of prohibited or restricted areas that affect some of the PBN approaches.

RPO 3.- IMPROVE THE BALANCE BETWEEN DEMAND AND CAPACITY (DCB) Through the development of the project “Implementation of the air traffic flow management (ATFM) for the Central American States and COCESNA”, significant progress was achieved on the following activities:

a) Update of the projects work program; b) Regional coordination through regular teleconferences in the CAR Region with

the participation of COCESNA; c) Creation of an ATFM Center at the headquarters of COCESNA in Tegucigalpa,

Honduras; d) Publication and dissemination of the declared ATC Capacity by sectors of the

Area Control Center of Central America FIR (CENAMER ACC/FIC); e) Support has been provided to the State of Costa Rica in the creation of the ATFM

sub-Center; f) Support has been provided to the State of Guatemala in the creation of the ATFM

sub-Center; and

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g) It is projected that for the second half of 2013, an ATFM sub-Center will be enabled in COCESNA´s Central American Institute of Aeronautics Training (ICCAE), at El Salvador.

RPO 4 - IMPROVE THE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS OF AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT (ATM)

a) Creation of a modernization plan for the ATM automation systems in Central America;

b) A data radar sharing agreement between COCESNA-Cuba and preparing the

respective COCESNA-Jamaica agreement; c) Continuation of the analysis for automatic data dependent surveillance-broadcast

(ADS-B); and d) Trial planning for 2013, with automatic dependent surveillance-contract data

(ADS-C) and controller pilot data link communications in the Pacific oceanic sector of Central American FIR.

In support of the C2 project of GREPECAS, COCESNA has contributed in the coordination with experts from the States on various issues and their respective progresses are summarized as follows: Review of the Regional surveillance strategy for the implementation of back-up systems in the improvement of the situational awareness.

a) In accordance with the unified regional strategy of surveillance for the CAR

SAM region, specifically in the implementation in En route and TMA airspaces in the medium term (2010-2015), COCESNA has taken into account in the implementation of the new automated system AIRCON 2100 for CENAMER, the inclusion of features for processing and monitoring of data type like: conventional A/C mode radar, Mode S and ADS-B, ADS-C, and CPDLC, AIDC, and OLDI data exchange.

b) The features listed in the previous paragraph will be implemented in February

2014, with the entry into operation of the new ATS CENAMER (CPDLC) system. Given these new dates for implementation on systems of COCESNA, COCESNA proposed a new date to be considered for the evaluation of the improvements in the systems related to the situational awareness and automated to be on April 2014.

Improvement Guidelines for terrestrial and aerial electronic alarms.

a) Surveys regarding electronic alarms implemented in each State have been sent. Surveys from Guatemala, Cuba, Upper airspace of C.A. - COCESNA, Saint Marten have been received; and

b) A new date was set so that the pending Central American States can deliver the

survey, till June 18, 2013.

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Guidelines for the operational ADS-B implementation and data exchange.

a) The participation of the expert assigned for the execution of the task was proposed; and

b) The document implementation of ADS "C" was sent by SITA expert. This

document was already circulated to the expert members, so they can provide their input regarding the implementation of the ADS "B".

Pending actions The FAA will send its advances on the issue of ADS "B" implementation in the USA, on the basis which the experts may learn from these experiences and to develop an implementation guide for our use.

Guidelines to support the ATFM implementation. There is no significant progress to this date; no documentation has been received bye the responsible for this activity. Guidelines for the AIDC use in order to reduce coordination errors.

a) The Coordinator of this activity received the two guidelines for the use in the AIDC, one for the SAM region and one for the CAR NAM region; and

b) It will be analyzed at the forthcoming ICAO meetings, with the leadership

of Cuba, the alternative of unifying the use of a single Guide for CAR NAM and SAM regions

Guideline to elaborate the SIGMET in a graphical format. COCESNA has implemented since May 2013, a graphic tracking option to the SIGMET through its web page. You can see this graphic aid in the link: http://apps.cocesna.org/eAIM/servlet/metarview. RPO 5.- IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NEW ICAO FLIGHT PLAN FORM The project "Implementation of the new format of flight Plan (FPL) for COCESNA" met with the objective to establish a strategy for the implementation of the capacity management of the new FPL format through the aeronautics messaging system of Central America FIR and the main activities were:

Perform the necessary strategies to develop the work of implementation of the new flight plan form in the aviation messaging network;

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Update the Software of the Aeronautics Messaging System AFTN/AMHS of COCESNA;

Provide relevant training to ensure that the users operating in Central America would have the skills needed to use the software applications developed by COCESNA;

Create the necessary backup systems and the contingency plans for the project covering different scenarios, considering different technical and operational options;

System transition planning with, trials, internal and external tests; Make the necessary publications so that the users in the Central American FIR,

are kept informed also to create the chance so that the adjacent FIRs follow up on the realized work for future coordination between the different ATC facilities.

a) This RPO is completed successfully allowing a harmonized and coordinated to the new format transition model ICAO, from 15 November 2012, thanks to the work of the AC/ANE/WG and other working groups, users, operators and international organizations such as COCESNA, CANSO and IATA;

b) For these activities, the required improvements were introduced in the processing systems of the AFTN and planning enhancements to ATC systems; establish and review the bilateral agreements among the air navigation services providers (ANSP), of the adjacent air spaces and regions for the trials of the interface processing systems of the new ICAO Flight Plan (FPL) form;

c) Publication of standards and procedures required to avoid duplication or errors in

the presentation of the FPL; realization of training programs; and review of sufficient qualified personal in the ANSP; and

d) With this RPO actions been taken to improve and reduce the generation of

missing, degraded and duplicate flight plans. Progress achieved from the regional experience of the change to the new flight plan format The implementation of the new FPL in Central America led to the change of two types of aeronautical system 1) messaging systems and 2) Control centers. In the case of messaging systems of COCESNA, as coordinator of the developments made all corresponding updates internally For ATS automated systems, we proceeded with the hiring of the renewal of the CENAMER, Nicaragua and El Salvador systems. In respect with the other systems COCESNA installed a "converter" that allows to comply with the amendment, and it is in proper operation. Also, through a regional plan related to the socialization and training activities was made and given in all of Central America.

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RPO 6 - IMPROVE THE SEARCH AND RESCUE (SAR) SYSTEM The search and rescue (SAR) service provided by COCESNA inside the SRR Central America, is subject to the provisions in regional agreements entered into by COCESNA and members of the SRR Central America countries, as well as standards and international recommended practices, in accordance with article 25 of the on international civil aviation convention. The unit of search and rescue (SAR) RCC/SPOC in conjunction with technical engineers (IT) of COCESNA, have developed an application that will allow the States of Central America realize a direct registration of frequency 406 MHZ emergency equipment, which will help greatly with the task of registration by utilizing the SIAR (System Information Aeronautics Regional) It will enable the location in a timely manner of any aircraft or vessel in danger, or at the time that this requires help. This functionality will have specific records and also details of the aircraft, photographs of the same and the emergency team updated according to the new format of COSPAS-SARSAT The application can be installed in the coming months in each of the Civil Aviation authorities in Central America. In regards to the analysis of causes of beacons activation , SAR COCESNA coincides with the manuals of specialized SAR organizations, in the sense that the causes of false activation of beacons 406 MHz ELT is due to:

Improper installation on an aircraft; Improper handling of the equipment by the aircraft maintenance personnel; Malfunction of the ELT, PLB, EPIRB; Volunteer activation; Other unknown circumstances; and Environment conditions.

At the same time the search and rescue unit will also implement a new software in the coming months of the year which will be called "RCC/SPOC /SAR TRACKING SYSTEM" whose main function will be to receive all alert messages from the various emergency teams which are received in the FIR Central America placed directly on a map of the Central American FIR and the location of the aircraft or vessel according to their coordinates indicated in the message received, as well as showing all the radio beacons closer to that location, it will also be able to carry an electronic logbook, a "dashboard" or icon for comments that staff want to annotate, the air traffic controller report, monthly statistics of events, alerts, or "warnings" when these are located outside the Central-American FIR. SAR Agreements

a) The search and rescue Committee (COBUSA) leads the coordination of the activities of SAR implementation in Central America;

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b) An agreement between the Civil aviation authorities, and cooperation agreements

between the civilian and military authorities for the supply of the SAR service exists in Central America;

c) COCESNA already has letters of agreement or SAR agreements with all the

Central American States. In what refers to the adjacent States to the FIR in Central America;

d) With the States of Panama and Colombia SAR agreement already exist; and

e) Coordination continues for similar agreements with Mexico, Cuba and Ecuador.

Display of the information system for the regulations administration (SIAR) and registration of 406 MHz ELT emergency equipment.

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Display of the system's messages of alert RCC/SPOC /SAR TRACKING SYSTEM

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RPO 9 OPTIMIZATION AND MODERNIZATION OF COMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE

a) ATS Voice channel between El COCO APP and the Area Control Center (ACC) of Panama implemented;

b) Channel ATS voice Merida ACC and Belize APP implemented;

c) Operation of the AMHS system in Central America;

d) Improvements to the CAMSAT communications network;

e) Arrangements for testing of the data processing CPDLC and ADS-C for the Pacific Ocean sector of the Central American FIR (search for solution to deficiency);

f) Initial tests to improve VHF AMS communications at FIR Kingston through COCESNA cooperation; and

g) Implementation plans and trials of direct exchange of data (OLDi) in Central America.

Improve the coverage of VHF and HF Panama and Jamaica have requested COCESNA help to study the installation of VHF equipment in COCESNAs place of Puerto Cabezas (PZA), to resolve the VHF communications problems in the border area between their FIRs. With Jamaica we have already made arrangements with the MEVA service provider to enable and test a channel between Tegucigalpa and Kingston, and currently the configurations and trials are being carried out. At PZA site trials have been already performed with VHF systems and found correct coverage in the places of interest. At the end of the installation and testing of the environment through the MEVA network will make tests corresponding to the operating systems of Jamaica.

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Plans to improve AMHS/HF coverage for the Pacific oceanic area of the C.A. FIR.

Facility at El COCO island

COCESNA and the ICE (Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad) signed an agreement that allows COCESNA to install a systems of communications (AMS/VHF) frequency 124.1 MHz at Coco Island (in the South Pacific), for the implementation a VPN from CENAMER to the site through the internal network of COCESNA infrastructure and the ICE has been bought, the system is currently in a trial period of quality and coverage.

In conclusion the site on the island is not the best at this time, due to the low height of the terrain and the tower, however this installation is helpful to cover the Northwest sector and part of the East and part of the South of the island and it can work as a backup system to the equipment installed at that frequency (124.1 MHz) Poas Volcano and Cerro Buenavista.

According to the statement made by the ICE in the near future, they intend to develop a project that includes the location of a tower in one of the highest points of the island, allowing overcoming the current constraints presenting the coverage, in accordance with the developed feasibility. Improvements to the HF systems COCESNA realized a study of the HF communications in the Pacific zone, the result of the study reflects that to improve the HF communications in the Pacific ocean region of the Central American FIR, it requires the installation of a high-gain antenna, and the use of seasonal HF frequencies, COCESNA already contracted the development of this project which will be done simultaneously with the modernization of the CENAMER control center.

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The project will be developed in two stages: The first corresponding to the site of reception in San Pedro Sula, antennas and equipment have already been installed and is intended to end for the day, June 14, 2013. Below are pictures of already installed equipment and antennas The second corresponding to site transmitter receiver of Laguna del Pedregal, this stage required the acquisition of a new site by COCESNA, the land has already been acquired and topography works are currently hired, planning indicates that this stage will be after February 17, 2014

ATS Voice communications

A new ATS channel between La Aurora Control and Tapachula, Mexico, has been installed and is in proper operation this will improved the coordination between both centers and avoid arrivals from Central America with too much altitude to initiate IFR approaches with instruments in the international airport of Tapachula.

OCO-PAN circuit, during the days of the 5 to 16 of September, 2011 COCESNA

completed the full installation of a VSAT node of its satellite telecommunications network circuit. At same time other services remain enabled like ATS Panama Control - El Coco, hot line FXS channel.

In the NACC WG 03 a meeting was held between MEXICO and COCESNA

which agreed to implement communications between Belize and Mérida the following actions where agreed:

a) The implementation of a communication channel at a technical level using the

existing infrastructure. It was COMPLETED; and b) Signature of the corresponding letter of agreement Belize - COCESNA – Mérida.

Status in PROCESS

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Implementation of a digital terrestrial network in Central America, in support of the CAMSAT COCESNA is currently in the process of modernization of its microwave network, the main features of this new communications network are as follows: It will be a private digital communications network, covering the entire Central American region. With capacity of 40 Mbps each way radio. It will be based on IP technology, which will allow a better integration with current and future services. Uses open architecture teams / COTS and technology (state of the art technology). It is flexible and scalable to facilitate changes and the growth of the network. It is high availability (redundancy features). Intelligence distributed on the Backbone nodes, without common point of failure with traffic prioritization and centralized management. In 2011 the installation of the radio links in the Central American region concluded (except Guatemala which took place in 2012). Currently the final stage of implementation is being realized, which consists of the implementation of the access network. COCESNA for that has contracted the BT company. Teams are already installed and expected that services are migrated for the month of July 2013. The microwaves network will become the new principal platform for aeronautical communications of voice and data in Central America it will be used by COCESNA, DGAC and airports Implementation of the AIDC/OLDI in FIR Central America COCESNA and Central American States have signed a contract with INDRA that will modernize the Control centers of CENAMER, Managua and El Salvador in its first stage. These new systems include OLDI and AIDC capabilities and contractually requested the supplier to corresponding integrations between centers with these features as will go to modernizing. Evaluation of coverage radar and identify improvements to meet the operating requirements A contract has been made for the renovation of the SSR secondary radar of Las Nubes which sends data to the Managua control center (such equipment is owned by the DGAC of Nicaragua) project is now in its implementation phase and is expected to come into operation at the beginning of the second half of 2013. Implementation of radar data sharing COCESNA-CUBA Exchange: Considering the support that it would give to the air traffic management in the respective flight information regions (FIR), as well as in air traffic flow management(ATFM) and following the guidelines by the region on the radar data exchange strategies, both COCESNA and Cuba have expressed an interest for this kind of Exchange, through which COCESNA would provide Cuba with data from its SSR radar located at Grand Cayman, and Cuba would provide to COCESNA San Julian radar data. The agreement has already been signed and technical information exchange has been done. CUBA has to upgrade its MEVA station in order to make the Exchange.

Currently COCESNA performs trials of the radar data being received from Panama, COCESNA already supplies PANAMA with radar data from Puerto Cabeza radar and Panama shares Enrique Malek de David radar data. The Exchange is currently in evaluation period by both parties.

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ADS-B, ADS C trials:

ADS-B COCESNA is currently testing an ADS-B receiver located in Cerro de Hula and the presentation of the data is in CENAMER, the data collection is intended to be used in the framework of regional studies.

ADS C, CPDLC COCESNA conducted analysis of the information on ADS-C, CPDLC in the South Pacific area with the result that effective systems are available in the market, and there is technical feasibility of installing them in the Control Center, and have coverage in the area of interest. CENAMER Control Center counts with data link servers ADS/CPDLC (Data Link Servers - DLS). The system has the capability of management of ADS/CPDLC communications via connections to the networks of Data Link providers, it can perform the exchange of messages between the aircraft and the Terminal of data binding, the data distribution ADS to the subsystem of processing of Surveillance Radar (SDP) for tracking ADS and ADS/SSR tracks as well as the recording of completed messages.

Currently interconnection problems are being solved with the service provider, for the provision of FANS services to the CENAMER Control Center. The supplier already installed the links of fiber and router equipment into the

equipment MACC room, which were connected to the servers responsible for communication and treatment of the protocols and data. (See diagram of interconnection and images below)

Routers installed by the service provider

Installation of fiber optic

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RPO 10. IMPLEMENTATION of the World Geodetic System - 1984 (WGS-84) and e-TOD It is known that most of the States of Central America have ended their WGS-84 uprising, but we don't have information of their plans of action related to eTOD. COCESNA has presented significant progress in the implementation of the system of geographic information (GIS) and initiated the incorporation of the model of information exchange and aeronautical data (AIXM) for the electronic version of the Aeronautics information publication (AIP) of Central America. AIM/COCESNA has collaborated with the Spanish translation of the first version of the "Manual of electronic data of obstacles and terrain” under the task "Developments for the provision of electronic data on the terrain and obstacles (e-TOD) in the States", of the G1 CAR project of the AIM program of GREPECAS. RPO 11. IMPLEMENTATION OF THE TRANSITION TO THE AERONAUTICS INFORMATION MANAGEMENT (AIM) CA/ANE/WG was informed of the implementation of quality systems in the AIS of Costa Rica and Nicaragua, in terms of the AIM of COCESNA in transition to the AIM is known as follows:

a) Transition plan AIM COCESNA, updated on March 8, 2013; b) Recertification ISO 9001: 2008 of the system of quality management (QMS) of

the AIM, within the integrated system of management of COCESNA (SIGC);

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c) The implementation of a geographic information system (GIS) for the production

of the cartography of Central America, aeronautical information publication (AIP) and AIP of Honduras by AIM/COCESNA; and

d) COCESNA has developed the electronic version of the integrated aeronautics

information documentation (IAIP) in Central America with the integration of the model for the exchange of information and aeronautical data (AIXM).

RPO 12. IMPROVE THE AVAILABILITY OF METEOROLOGICAL INFORMATION With the collaboration of the management of technology (GT) of COCESNA, the NOTAM and MET information has been available since the month of May 2013, being this information available the 24 hours, which you may observe thru the following links. NOTAM http://apps.cocesna.org/eAIM/servlet/notamview OPMET http://apps.cocesna.org/eAIM/servlet/metarview

Display of message NOTAM in force of the FIR Central America and messages available H24 OPMET NOF:

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Example of a SIGMET message posted by LMO/MWO of the FIR Central America and its orientation in graphical format: LOCATION INDICATOR: MHTG RECEIVED: 101415 BEGIN DATE: 07/10/2013 14:15:00 END DATE: 07/10/2013 18:15:00 MESSAGE: AHH594 101415 GG MHCCYSYX MHCCZQZX 101415 MHTGYMYX WSHO31 MHTG 101415 MHTG SIGMET 4

VALID 101415/101815 MHTG- MHTG CENTRAL AMERICAN FIR EMBD TS OBS AT 1345Z WI N1074 W09857-N1088 W09787-N0831 W09577-N0713 W09756 -N0788 W09833 TOP F480 MOV W 05KT NC=

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