KINGSTON – The country’s aviation watchdog – the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) – intends to purchase an Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast (ADS-B) this year.
This was disclosed by its General Manager Zulifar Mohamed at the year-in-review press conference on January 31, 2014.
“This is a system for air traffic surveillance. With ADS-B, each aircraft broadcasts its own GPS position along with other information like heading, ground track, ground speed, altitude. Receivers on the ground then receive this information and send it to air traffic control displays,” Mr. Mohamed told reporters.
The ADS-B information can be used to augment existing primary and secondary (transponder-based) radar or used in lieu of those radar technologies. The implementation of ADS-B will increase the capacity of Guyana’s airspace to accommodate four times as much traffic/aircraft operations in the same airspace.
