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Old 30th October 2013 | 05:00
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underfire
 
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I would take most if not virtually all of that information with little basis in reality, especially that map provided...

The news brief on AirServices and Sydney. I am not sure where that came from, but this is from the Airservice Australia website:

Phase 1
Airservices has completed Phase 1 to build operational experience with GBAS technology, using a Honeywell’s demonstration GBAS, SLS-3000, at Sydney International Airport.

In November 2006, Airservices and Qantas launched the world’s first GLS approach. Since then, Qantas has flown more than 2,500 GBAS-supported approaches and trained over 700 pilots on GBAS operations. Pilots have consistently reported that GBAS provides extremely smooth and stable guidance. Qantas is equipping its entire B737NG fleet with GLS. In January 2009, Qantas obtained CASA approval of GLS operations on Airbus A380s. In the coming years, over 50 per cent of Qantas aircraft fleet will have GBAS capabilities.

Phase 2
Phase 2 commenced in the third quarter of 2009 to replace the Honeywell SLS-3000 system with the SLS-4000 SmartPath™ GBAS at Sydney. SmartPath™ is the world’s first and only GBAS which has received the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)’s system design approval. Airservices and CASA closely monitored this approval process.

Acceptance testing of the new system was carried out in August 2011 and a three-month test and evaluation period commenced in late 2011. Airservices intends to apply to the CASA to have GBAS Category I (CAT-I) operations approved for use at Sydney during 2012.

GBAS implementation program | Airservices

At this point in time, I believe it has been decided to moved the GBAS system from Sydney to YMML....

First off, the Russians jumped the boat on GBAS, and the system is not compatible with the current ICAO protocols. If you look at the Russian AIP, you will see that there are currently no operational systems in the country.

The European prototype is just that, a prototype.

The units listed in Norway, SCATI is DGPS, not GBAS.

Honeywell has deployed its SmartPath at Bremen, Germany, and is currently operational at Newark Liberty International in the US, while the systems are being deployed at Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, Malaga in Spain, and Memphis, Tennessee, and Houston, Texas, in the US.

While I am not sure of the operation in Bremen, it is shutdown in Newark due to the interferance issues (the poor siting decision of the antenna) and is being moved to Houston. Malaga and Memphis, well, those are perhaps HW dreams...

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