| Extract from
Report of the
CNS Committee.
Thirty-First Eastern
Caribbean Working Group Meeting
(E/CAR/WG/31)
St. John’s, Antigua, 5 to 8 October 2009
2.5.1 Remoting of radar from Martinique to
Trinidad:
2.5.1.1 The Letter of Agreement (LOA) for the
remoting of radar from Martinique to Trinidad
was signed by the SNA/AG and the TTCAA on 4th
October 2007. A dedicated leased 64Kbps circuit
was
implemented between Martinique and Trinidad. The
circuit has been successfully tested end-to-end
and
radar data from the combined radars of
Martinique and Guadeloupe was presented at
Trinidad Piarco
ACC on 10th June 2009 and continues to be
displayed under pre-operational test conditions
at the Piarco
Area Control Centre. The routers to be installed
in Martinique and Trinidad have been tested
back-to-back
and are scheduled for installation by mid
November 2009. This installation will complete
the
Piarco/Martinique circuit for voice, AFTN and
radar data.
2.5.1.2 The initial request for the circuit
Guadeloupe/Trinidad was for voice only. This
requirement has since been re-evaluated and a
change request was generated and sent to the
PSTN service
providers: TSTT and France Telecoms. The new
circuit will be identical to the
Martinique/Trinidad
circuit. In addition to the primary function of
providing voice and AFTN connectivity it will
also serve as
a backup for the Martinique/Trinidad radar
circuit.
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2.5.2 Remoting of radar from Barbados to
Trinidad:
2.5.2.1 The LOA between Trinidad and Tobago and
Barbados for the remoting of radar data
from Barbados to Trinidad was signed on 17th
November 2006. A dedicated leased 64kbps circuit
was
installed and tested. The routers are scheduled
to be installed by mid November 2009. Discussion
is ongoing
between the Civil Aviation Authorities of
Barbados, Grantley Adams International Airport
Inc.,
TTCAA and their respective Radar manufacturers
on the details of connectivity to the Barbados
radar
system.
2.5.3 Trinidad and Tobago Radar
2.5.3.1 Trinidad and Tobago has installed a new
MSSR and PSR radar to replace its old radar
that was removed from service. Flight check
inspection of the new radar installation is
scheduled within
the fourth quarter of 2009. Upon commissioning
of the Trinidad and Tobago (new) radar the data
will be
fused with data from Barbados and the French
Antilles radars resulting in a seamless Enroute
Surveillance System covering all the airspace
west of 057ºW in the Piarco FIR. This phase of
the project
initially projected to be completed by the end
of the third quarter of 2008 is now anticipated
to be
operational by the end of the second quarter of
2010.
2.5.4 ADS-B and ADS-C implementation
2.5.4.1 Trinidad and Tobago signed a contract
with the successful bidder on 16th July 2007 for
a
turn-key project for a new state of the art ATM
system. The Air Traffic Management Automation
(ATM)
System is a central system that would integrate
all information/data necessary to perform safely
and
effectively air traffic management functions,
including air traffic flow management, at the
appropriate
level of automation as recommended by ICAO; and
to support control operations of Piarco ACC,
Piarco
TMA and the Towers at Crown Point and Piarco.
Approach and Tower. The system comes complete
with
Mode S MSSR/PSR radar, electronic flight strips
and integrates the most advanced flight data
processing
(FDP), surveillance data processing (SDP), data
link processing (DLP) and displays available
today.
2.5.4.2 The ATM system has the capability of
processing and displaying data from the
following
sources/sensors PSR/SSR/MSSR/ADS-B/ADS-C/TIS-B
and MLAT. The main phase of the
Modernization project which includes all new ATM
equipage in a new Area Control Centre and
Control
Tower buildings is anticipated to be realized
and fully operational within the second quarter
of 2011.
2.5.4.3 The decision to implement ADS in the
Piarco FIR was re-affirmed at the SUR/TF/3
Meeting, 10-11 September 2009, Mexico City,
Mexico. ADS-B trials are planned not before 2015
within
the FIR and ADS-C implementation in the oceanic
airspace is scheduled to coincide with the
commissioning of the main new ATM system in the
new air navigation facilities at Piarco within
the
second quarter of 2011.
2.5.5 Status of existing E/CAR digital
network contract
2.5.5.1 Trinidad and Tobago signed a Labour and
Equipment Maintenance Agreement for the
existing E/CAR AFS and VHF Aeronautical Mobile
Services (AMS) networks, with Telecommunications
Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT) for
maintenance of the AMS, AFTN interface and voice
equipment on the E/CAR islands. The Agreement
was deemed to have commenced on 1st January 2006
for an initial period of twenty-four (24) months
to be thereafter automatically extended by
successive
twelve (12) month periods unless terminated.
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