I, William Bruce Byron, Director of Aviation Safety, on behalf of CASA, make this instrument under regulation 207 of the Civil Aviation Regulations 1988.
Bruce Byron
Director of Aviation Safety and
Chief Executive Officer
6 June 2007
Civil Aviation Order 20.18 Amendment Order (No. 1) 2007
This instrument is the Civil Aviation Order 20.18 Amendment Order (No. 1) 2007.
2 Commencement
This instrument commences on the day after it is registered.
3 Amendment of Civil Aviation Order 20.18
Schedule 1 amends Civil Aviation Order 20.18.
[1] After subsection 9A
insert
9B Directions relating to carriage and use of automatic dependent surveillance – broadcast equipment
9B.1 In this subsection and Appendix XI:
ADS-B means automatic dependent surveillance – broadcast.
aircraft address means a unique 24-bit aircraft address code assigned to an aircraft in accordance with Annex 10 to the Chicago Convention.
approved equipment configuration means the requirements:
(a) set out in Appendix XI; or
(b) approved in writing by CASA and published from time to time in an Advisory Circular.
Note Equipment configurations approved by CASA are published in Appendix D of Advisory Circular 21-45.
9B.2 ADS-B transmitting equipment carried by an aircraft for operational use in Australia must comply with an approved equipment configuration.
9B.3 If ADS-B transmitting equipment carried by an aircraft does not comply with an approved equipment configuration, it must be deactivated before flight in Australia.
9B.4 ADS-B transmitting equipment carried by an aircraft for operational use in Australia must transmit:
(a) a flight identification that corresponds exactly to the aircraft identification mentioned on the flight notification filed with ATS for the flight; or
(b) if no flight notification is filed for the flight — a flight identification that is:
(i) for an aircraft registered on the Australian Civil Aircraft Register and operating wholly within Australian territory — the aircraft’s registration mark; or
(ii) for an Australian aircraft registered by a recreational aircraft administrative organisation — in accordance with the organisation’s operations manual; or
(iii) in any other case — the aircraft’s nationality or common mark and registration mark without any hyphen included; or
(c) another flight identification directed or approved by ATC.
[2] After Appendix X
insert
Appendix XI ADS-B transmitting equipment
1 ADS-B transmitting equipment must meet:
(a) TSO-C166 as in force on 20 September 2004; or
(b) TSO-C166a as in force on 21 December 2006; or
(c) ATSO-C1004 as in force on 2 October 2003; or
(d) ATSO-C1005 as in force on 22 December 2004; or
(e) another standard acceptable to CASA.
2 On and after 28 June 2012, the geographical position transmitted by the equipment must be determined by:
(a) a GNSS receiver that meets TSO-C145a or TSO-C146a as in force on 19 September 2002; or
(b) another system acceptable to CASA for this purpose.
3 The pressure altitude transmitted by the equipment must be determined by:
(a) a barometric encoder that meets:
(i) TSO-C88a as in force on 18 August 1983; or
(ii) ETSO-C88a as in force on 24 October 2003; or
(b) another system acceptable to CASA for this purpose.
4 The equipment must:
(a) allow the pilot to activate and deactivate it during flight; and
(b) transmit the current aircraft address.
Note The requirement in paragraph 4 (a) is met if the equipment has a cockpit control that enables the pilot to turn the ADS-B transmissions on and off.