Textual Amendments
F1Annex 6 substituted (20.11.2021) by The Aviation Safety (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1203), regs. 1(2), 29
An aeronautical information services (AIS) provider shall establish information management resources and processes that are adequate to ensure the timely collection, processing, storing, integration, exchange and delivery of quality-assured aeronautical data and aeronautical information within the ATM system.
An AIS provider shall ensure the provision of aeronautical data and aeronautical information necessary for the safety, regularity and efficiency of air navigation.
An AIS provider shall receive, collate or assemble, edit, format, publish, store and distribute aeronautical data and aeronautical information concerning the entire territory and airspace of the United Kingdom and Crown Dependencies as well as those areas over the high seas for which the United Kingdom is responsible for the provision of air traffic services.
An AIS provider shall ensure that aeronautical data and aeronautical information are available for:
personnel involved in flight operations, including flight crews, flight planning, and flight simulators;
ATS providers responsible for flight information services, and
the services responsible for pre-flight information.
An AIS provider shall provide 24-hour service for NOTAM origination and issuance in its area of responsibility and for pre-flight information needed in relation to route stages originating at any aerodrome or heliport in its area of responsibility.
An AIS provider shall make available to other AIS providers aeronautical data and aeronautical information required by them.
An AIS provider shall ensure that procedures are in place to assess and mitigate safety risks to aviation arising from data and information errors.
An AIS provider shall clearly indicate that aeronautical data and aeronautical information provided for and on behalf of the United Kingdom are provided under the authority of the United Kingdom, irrespective of the format in which it is provided.
An AIS provider shall ensure that:
aeronautical data and aeronautical information conforms with the ‘Aeronautical Data Catalogue’ referred to in ICAO PANS-AIM (Doc 10066);
data quality is maintained; and
automation is applied to enable the processing and exchange of digital aeronautical data.
An AIS provider shall ensure that formal arrangements are established with:
all parties transmitting data to them; and
other AIS providers, when exchanging aeronautical data and aeronautical information with them.
An AIS provider shall ensure that:
the format of aeronautical data is based on an aeronautical information exchange model designed to be globally interoperable; and
aeronautical data is exchanged through electronic means.
An AIS provider shall ensure that tools and software used to support or automate aeronautical data and aeronautical information processes perform their functions without adversely impacting on the quality of aeronautical data and aeronautical information.
An AIS provider shall ensure that verification and validation techniques are employed so that the aeronautical data meets the associated data quality requirements (DQRs) specified in point AIS.TR.200.
An AIS provider shall collect and preserve metadata.
An AIS provider shall ensure that:
digital data error detection techniques are used during the transmission or storage of aeronautical data in order to support the applicable data integrity levels specified in point AIS.TR.200(c); and
the transfer of aeronautical data is subject to a suitable authentication process such that recipients are able to confirm that the data or information has been transmitted by an authorised source.
An AIS provider shall ensure that error reporting, error measurement and corrective action mechanisms are established and maintained.
An AIS provider shall identify, in the aeronautical information products, except for NOTAM, the aeronautical data and aeronautical information that do not meet the DQRs.
Where aeronautical data or aeronautical information is duplicated in the AIP of more than one State, the AIS providers responsible for those AIPs shall establish mechanisms to ensure consistency between the duplicated information.
When providing aeronautical data and aeronautical information in multiple formats, an AIS provider shall ensure that processes are implemented for data and information consistency between those formats.
An AIS provider shall issue an AIP.
An AIS provider shall:
issue permanent changes to the AIP as AIP amendments; and
ensure that the AIP is amended or reissued at such regular intervals as necessary to ensure that the information is complete and up to date.
An AIS provider shall:
issue, as AIP supplements, temporary changes of long duration (three months or longer) and information of short duration which contains extensive text or graphics;
regularly provide a checklist of the valid AIP supplements; and
publish a new AIP supplement as a replacement when an error occurs in an AIP supplement or when the period of validity of an AIP supplement is changed.
An AIS provider shall issue as an AIC any of the following:
a long-term forecast of any major change in legislation, regulations, procedures or facilities;
information of a purely explanatory or advisory nature which affects flight safety;
information or notification of an explanatory or advisory nature, concerning technical, legislative or purely administrative matters.
An AIS provider shall review at least once a year the validity of an AIC in force.
An AIS provider shall ensure that the following aeronautical charts, where made available:
form part of the AIP or are provided separately to recipients of the AIP:
aerodrome obstacle chart – Type A;
aerodrome/heliport chart;
aerodrome ground movement chart;
aircraft parking/docking chart;
precision approach terrain chart;
ATC surveillance minimum altitude chart;
area chart;
standard arrival chart – instrument (STAR);
standard departure chart – instrument (SID);
instrument approach chart;
visual approach chart; and
en route chart; and
are provided as part of the aeronautical information products:
aerodrome obstacle chart – Type B;
world aeronautical chart 1:1 000 000;
world aeronautical chart 1:500 000;
aeronautical-navigation chart – small scale; and
plotting chart.
An AIS provider shall:
promptly issue a NOTAM whenever the information to be distributed is of a temporary nature and of short duration or when operationally significant permanent changes, or temporary changes of long duration (three months or longer), are made at short notice, except for extensive text or graphics; and
issue, as a NOTAM, information on the establishment, condition, or change of any aeronautical facility, service, procedure or hazard, the timely knowledge of which is essential to personnel involved with flight operations.
Compliance with point AIS.OR.200 shall not inhibit the urgent distribution of aeronautical information necessary to ensure the safety of flight.
If available, an AIS provider shall ensure that digital data is in the form of the following data sets:
AIP data set;
terrain data set;
obstacle data sets;
aerodrome mapping data sets; and
instrument flight procedure data sets.
An AIS provider shall ensure that a checklist of valid data sets shall be regularly provided.
Each data set shall include a minimum set of metadata to be provided to the next user.
An AIS provider shall ensure that the AIP data set, if available, contains the digital representation of aeronautical information of lasting character, including permanent information and long-duration temporary changes.
An AIS provider shall ensure that terrain and obstacle data, if available, are provided in accordance with point AIS.TR.350.
An AIS provider shall ensure that terrain data, if available, is provided:
for Area 1, as laid down in point AIS.TR.350; and
for aerodromes to cover:
Area 2a or parts of Area 2a, as laid down in point AIS.TR.350(b)(1);
Areas 2b, 2c and 2d or parts of those Areas, as laid down in points AIS.TR.350(b)(2), (3) and (4), for terrain:
within 10 km from the aerodrome reference point (ARP); and
beyond 10 km from the ARP if the terrain penetrates the horizontal plane 120 m above the lowest runway elevation;
the take-off flight path area or parts of that area;
an area, or parts of an area, bounded by the lateral extent of the aerodrome obstacle limitation surfaces;
Area 3 or parts of Area 3, as laid down in point AIS.TR.350(c), for terrain that extends 0.5 m above the horizontal plane, passing through the nearest point on the aerodrome movement area; and
Area 4 or parts of Area 4, as laid down in point AIS.TR.350(d), for all runways where precision approach Category II or III operations have been established and where detailed terrain information is required by operators to enable them to assess the effect of terrain on decision height determination by use of radio altimeters.
An AIS provider shall ensure that obstacle data, if available, is provided:
for obstacles in Area 1 whose height is 100 m or higher above ground;
for aerodromes, for all obstacles within Area 2 that are assessed as being a hazard to air navigation; and
for aerodromes, to cover:
Area 2a or parts of Area 2a, for those obstacles that penetrate the relevant obstacle data collection surface;
objects in the take-off flight path area or parts of that area, which project above a plane surface having a 1.2 % slope and having a common origin with the take-off flight path area;
penetrations of the aerodrome obstacle limitation surfaces or parts of those surfaces;
Areas 2b, 2c and 2d, for obstacles that penetrate the relevant obstacle data collection surfaces;
Area 3 or parts of Area 3, for obstacles that penetrate the relevant obstacle data collection surface; and
Area 4 or parts of Area 4, for all runways where precision approach Category II or III operations have been established.
An AIS provider shall ensure that aerodrome mapping data sets, if available, are provided in accordance with point AIS.TR.365.
An AIS provider shall ensure that instrument flight procedure data sets, if available, are provided in accordance with point AIS.TR.370.
An AIS provider shall:
distribute available aeronautical information products to those users who request them;
make available the AIP, AIP amendments, AIP supplements, NOTAM and AIC by the most expeditious means;
ensure that NOTAM are distributed through the aeronautical fixed service (AFS), whenever practicable;
ensure that international exchange of NOTAM takes place only as mutually agreed between the international NOTAM offices and multinational NOTAM processing units concerned; and
arrange, as necessary, the issuance and receipt of NOTAM distributed by telecommunication to satisfy operational requirements.
An AIS provider shall ensure that:
for any aerodrome or heliport, aeronautical information relative to the route stages originating at the aerodrome or heliport is made available to flight operations personnel, including flight crew and services responsible for pre-flight information; and
aeronautical information provided for pre-flight planning purposes includes information of operational significance from the elements of the aeronautical information products.
An AIS provider shall ensure that aeronautical data and aeronautical information are amended or reissued to keep them up to date.
An AIS provider shall ensure that information concerning the circumstances listed in point AIS.TR.505(a) is distributed under the AIRAC system.
An AIS provider shall ensure that:
the information notified under the AIRAC system is not changed further for at least another 28 days after the AIRAC effective date unless the circumstance notified is of a temporary nature and would not persist for the full period;
the information provided under the AIRAC system is distributed or made available so as to reach recipients at least 28 days in advance of the AIRAC effective date; and
implementation dates other than the AIRAC effective dates are not used for pre-planned operationally significant changes requiring cartographic work or for updating of navigation databases.
An AIS provider shall:
ensure that NOTAM are provided in accordance with point AIS.TR.510; and
provide a ‘trigger NOTAM’, as laid down in point AIS.TR.510(f), when an AIP amendment or an AIP supplement is published in accordance with AIRAC procedures.
An AIS provider shall:
amend or reissue data sets at such regular intervals as may be necessary to keep them up to date; and
issue permanent changes and temporary changes of long duration (three months or longer) made available as digital data in the form of a complete data set or a subset that includes only the differences from the previously issued complete data set.
In addition to point ATM/ANS.OR.B.005(a)(6) of Annex 3, the AIS provider shall ensure that personnel responsible for the provision of aeronautical data and aeronautical information are:
made aware of and apply the following:
the requirements on aeronautical information products and services, as specified in Sections 2 to 5;
the update cycles applicable to the issuing of AIP amendments and AIP supplements for the areas for which they provide aeronautical data or aeronautical information;
adequately trained, competent and authorised for the job they are required to do.]