Air France Flight 447 disappeared in 2009, Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 and Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went missing last year. The series of deadly accidents brought lack of full-time aircraft tracking into the spotlight and saw International Air Transport Association (IATA) and International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) come forward in December 2014 with a new standard requiring commercial aircraft to report their position every 15 minutes.
Malaysian Airlines and Singapore Airlines were the first to test the FlightTracker developed by SITA in an answer to the call made by ICAO and IATA. The tests were declared successful in February 2015.
Since then only 15 airlines have installed the fight tracking system although we are half way through to the deadline set by the flight regulators to November 2016, Tengrinews reports.
FlightTracker fuses together existing aircraft positioning sources including ADS-B, ATC radar, ACARS and ADS-C, to provide position data from aircraft to fill gaps in terrestrial coverage and give complete global tracking, even for oceanic routes. Besides, it extrapolates the data on the airline’s flight plans and can automatically generate alerts when the aircraft leaves its course.
The 15 companies that are already using Flight Tracker include Air Asia India, Air Costa, Malaysia Airlines, Norwegian Air Shuttle, Oman Air, Royal Brunei and Singapore Airlines.
But they constitute a mere 6% of the number of the airlines up for the upgrade and hold a very modest portion of the passenger transportation market.
07/09/15 Tengri News
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Malaysian Airlines and Singapore Airlines were the first to test the FlightTracker developed by SITA in an answer to the call made by ICAO and IATA. The tests were declared successful in February 2015.
Since then only 15 airlines have installed the fight tracking system although we are half way through to the deadline set by the flight regulators to November 2016, Tengrinews reports.
FlightTracker fuses together existing aircraft positioning sources including ADS-B, ATC radar, ACARS and ADS-C, to provide position data from aircraft to fill gaps in terrestrial coverage and give complete global tracking, even for oceanic routes. Besides, it extrapolates the data on the airline’s flight plans and can automatically generate alerts when the aircraft leaves its course.
The 15 companies that are already using Flight Tracker include Air Asia India, Air Costa, Malaysia Airlines, Norwegian Air Shuttle, Oman Air, Royal Brunei and Singapore Airlines.
But they constitute a mere 6% of the number of the airlines up for the upgrade and hold a very modest portion of the passenger transportation market.
07/09/15 Tengri News
