Georgetown: The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) says plans are on the way to acquire an Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast (ADS-B) system to boost air traffic surveillance.
With ADS-B, each aircraft broadcasts its own GPS position along with other information like heading, ground track, ground speed, altitude, and other similar attributes.
Receivers on the ground will then collect this information and send it to air traffic control displays. The ADS-B information can be used to augment existing primary and secondary (transponder-based) radar or used in lieu of those radar technologies.
The implementation of ADS-B will increase the capacity of Guyana’s airspace to accommodate four times as much traffic/aircraft operations in the same airspace.
Work was done towards compliance with the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) Standards and achieving Category One rating under the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) International Aviation Safety Assessment (IASA) Programme.
There was also improvement in the staffing capacity of the Authority to enhance oversight functions.
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