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SID, STAR and Approach (SSA) Data Encoder


SSA Data Encoding Solution

SSA Encoder allows the coding of SID, STAR and Approach procedures by assigning all the attributes needed by ARINC coding.

AIS organisations must guarantee the quality of the data distributed during flight planning and procedure design validation. The SSA data can be transferred to other data providers via ARINC files or saved into the IDS AERODB.  

 
The development of RNAV Instrument Flight Procedures is made up of a series of steps from the origination of data (i.e. surveys) to the navigation database coding and charting for final publication.

SSA Encoder is an add-on package to IDS’s FPDAM (Flight Procedure Design and Airspace Management) and manages the last step of uploading the data into the on-board navigation database. Quality control procedures must be present in each step to ensure the necessary levels of accuracy and integrity in the final distributed data.

The SSA Encoder is used to describe the procedure in an unambiguous fashion. It guides the designer through the ARINC coding of the SSA data associated with a procedure. Waypoints that are linked to the procedure, OCA/OCH values, MSA and SSA supplementary data tables can be maintained at the same time with the SSA Encoder interface.

SSA Encoder is very useful for CAA, ANSP departments and aircraft companies which are responsible for:

  • Procedure Design, coding and pre-validation;
  • Flight Inspections and flight planning.

    SSA Encoder can be deployed in 3 different configurations:

    1.    FPDAM and SSA Encoder connected to the central AIS database 

    • Automated loading of complex SSA data through the procedure design environment;
    • Temporary/definitive saving capabilities;
    • AERODB data source loading;
    • New data source assigned from the source interface;
    • online update of the SSA and related ARINC In/Out.

    2.    FPDAM and SSA Encoder connected to the “local” project database

     

    • Export of complex SSA data through the procedure design graphic environment;
    • Temporary/definitive saving capabilities;
    • ARINC 424 output.

    3.    SSA Encoder only connected to the central AIS database

     

    • Online update of the SSA tables ARINC Import/Export through Aero-Translators;
    • Temporary/definitive saving capabilities;
    • AERODB data source loading;
    • New source assigned from the source interface.