Aeronautical Information Services (AIS)

Standards and Recommended practices for Aeronautical Information Services were first adopted by the Council on 15 May 1953, and were designated as Annex 15 to the ICAO Convention. This Annex became applicable on 1 April 1954.

Each country provides aeronautical information concerning its own territory. It is published in the Aeronautical Information Publication (AIP) and in Notices to Airmen (NOTAM). ICAO personnel engaged in aeronautical information services do not provide actual service, but check on whether these services are provided in ICAO’s members States. NOTAM are classified into two categories, I and II. Both classes contain information concerning the establishment, condition or change in any aeronautical facility, service procedure or hazard the timely knowledge of which is essential to personnel concerned with flight operations.

Information generated by AIS and AIP system is directed to pilots before taking off. NOTAM information might include advice that a certain airspace will be temporarily closed because of rocket launching, for example, or that a non-directional radio navigation beacon at a particular location is inoperative.

In addition to NOTAM ICAO adopted a SNOWTAM, a special series of NOTAM informing about the presence or removal of hazardous conditions at airport due to snow, ice, slush or standing water on the aircraft movement areas of airports.

A pilot planning a flight will prepare his flight plan according to the NOTAM information. What information does a pilot need? This information is quite varied. First of all he wants to know which airway to follow to the aerodrome of his destination. Further information needed by the pilot is that about facilities available en route and at the point of destination, the length of the runways, the communication frequencies, meteorological information, etc. He fills out a flight plan giving the route he is to follow and the description of the route, the name of the aerodrome of his destination and also the name of the alternate aerodrome and other information. He must indicate whether he will fly IFR (Instrument Flight Rules) or VFR (Visual Flight Rules) or, a combination of both.

Having the information received from the pilot Air Traffic Control can control the flight.

Exercises

I. Ответьте на вопросы:

1. When did Annex 15 become applicable?

2. What is NOTAM?

3. What information does NOTAM contain?

4. Where is aeronautical information published?

5. Is AIP an international publication?

6. What is the task of ICAO aeronautical information services personnel?

7. When is the necessary information directed to pilots?

8. When does the pilot need the information?

9. What information does a pilot need to plan his flight?

10. How is a flight planned?

11. What flight rules there exist?

II. Переведите слова, обращая внимание на словообразующие элементы:

apply – appliance – applicable – applicant – application

provide – provider – provision - provisional

inform – informer – information – informal – informality – informative

direct – direction – directional – directly – director

locate - location - locally – localize – local

move – movement – movable – moveless - mover

service – serviceable – unserviceable

change – changeable – changeability – changeless

present – presence – presently – presentable – presentation

control – controllable – controller – uncontrollable

vary – variable – variability – variety – variation – variant

III. Найдите в тексте эквивалент следующим словосочетаниям:

стандарты и рекомендуемые практики, служба аэронавигационной информации, государства – члены ИКАО, выполнение полетов, зоны движения самолетов, частоты связи, запуск ракет, правила инструментального полета, правила визуального полета.

IV. Переведите на английский язык:

1. Аэронавигационная информация, касающаяся территории государства – члена ИКАО, публикуется в Сборнике аэронавигационной информации.

2. Сборник аэронавигационной информации содержит информацию о аэродромах вылета и назначения.

3. НОТАМ – международный сборник аэронавигационной информации, которая имеет большое значение для планирования и производства полетов.

4. Если аэродром назначения по каким-либо причинам закрыт, пилот следует на запасной аэродром, указанный в его плане полета.

5. Знание аэронавигационной информации обеспечивает безопасность и эффективность полетов.

6. Перед планированием полета пилот должен получить всю необходимую информацию, входящую в НОТАМ.

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