Aircraft Identification Tag Study Equipment And Implementation Scenarios

The EUROCONTROL Experimental Centre (EEC) developed an innovative concept called aircraft identification tag (AIT), which aims at: (i) Reducing voice communication errors by allowing the controller to visually identify the aircraft that is currently using the voice channel. (ii) Improving the security of controller-pilot voice communications by allowing authentication of received voice communications. In July 2006, EUROCONTROL launched an initial feasibility study on the AIT concept to provide EUROCONTROL with enough information to decide and give orientations for a full feasibility analysis of the AIT concept, in view of a possible operational implementation. This paper summarizes the findings of the second deliverable of this initial feasibility study - AIT equipment and implementation scenarios.