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Satellite-based aircraft tracking on the way for NZ

22 Sep 2016

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For more information:

Emily Davies

Head of Public Affairs Airways New Zealand

Email: communications@airways.co.nz

Mobile:  +64 21 815 149

 

How ADS-B works

With Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast, the aircraft position is no longer calculated by ground-based radar.

Instead, the aircraft’s systems will determine its position using GPS and the ADS-B transponder will transmit this and other information to a national network of ground receivers, which will then update the air traffic management system.

The ADS-B network updates the aircraft’s location every second, while existing radar calculates the position approximately every five seconds.

ADS-B extends the capability of Multilateration radar systems currently in place at Queenstown Airport and Auckland Airport.

 

About Airways New Zealand

Airways is a world-leading commercial Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP), and operates in New Zealand as a State-Owned Enterprise (SOE).

We look after key aviation infrastructure around New Zealand and manage the more than 1 million traffic movements per year into and around New Zealand’s 30 million square kilometres of airspace.

Airways provides air traffic control and engineering training, and has delivered air traffic management, Flight yield revenue management solutions, navigation services and consultancy in more than 65 countries.

For more information about Airways please visit www.airways.co.nz