Advanced Surface Movement Guidance and Control System
Advanced Surface Movement Guidance and Control System is a system at airports having a surveillance infrastructure consisting of a Non-Cooperative Surveillance (e.g. SMR, Microwave Sensors, Optical Sensors etc.) and Cooperative Surveillance (e.g. Multilateration systems). A-SMGCS has 4 levels,[1] level 1 and 2 have been validated by EUROCONTROL Airport Operations and Environment division in Eurocontrol located in Brussels, Belgium and work is ongoing to verify requirements for further implementation levels in coordination with ICAO, FAA etc. It uses the aircraft’s transponder transmission as the primary indication of airborne status. [2]
ICAO Definition
[edit]ICAO Doc 9830 defines A-SMGCS as follows:
Advanced surface movement guidance and control system (A-SMGCS). A system providing routing, guidance and surveillance for the control of aircraft and vehicles in order to maintain the declared surface movement rate under all weather conditions within the aerodrome visibility operational level (AVOL) while maintaining the required level of safety.
List of Airports with FAA approved SMGCS Plans
[edit]| U.S. Airports with FAA Approved Low Visibility Operations / | ||||
| Surface Movement Guidance and Control Systems | ||||
| (LVO/SMGCS) Operations | ||||
| OpSpec/Mspec/LOA C056/C078/C079 | Updated November 19, 2015 | May 24, 2016 | ||
| Airport ID | Airport | City | State | Region |
| ANC | Ted Stevens Anchorage International | Anchorage | AK | AAL |
| FAI | Fairbanks International | Fairbanks | AK | AAL |
| LIT | Bill and Hillary Clinton National / Adams Field | Little Rock | AR | ASW |
| FAT | Fresno Yosemite International | Fresno | CA | AWP |
| BFL | Meadows Field Airport | Bakersfield | CA | AWP |
| LAX | Los Angeles International | Los Angeles | CA | AWP |
| ONT | Ontario International | Ontario | CA | AWP |
| SFO | San Francisco International | San Francisco | CA | AWP |
| DEN | Denver International | Denver | CO | ANM |
| BDL | Bradley International | Windsor Locks | CT | AEA |
| IAD | Washington Dulles International | Washington | DC | AEA |
| TPA | Tampa International | Tampa | FL | ASO |
| ATL | Hartsfield - Jackson / Atlanta International | Atlanta | GA | ASO |
| DSM | Des Moines International | Des Moines | IA | ACE |
| BOI | Boise Air Terminal / Gowen Field | Boise | ID | ANM |
| ORD | Chicago O'Hare International | Chicago | IL | AGL |
| RFD | Chicago / Rockford International | Rockford | IL | AGL |
| FWA | Fort Wayne International | Fort Wayne | IN | AGL |
| IND | Indianapolis International | Indianapolis | IN | AGL |
| SDF | Louisville International - Standiford Field | Louisville | KY | ACE |
| MSY | Louis Armstrong New Orleans International | New Orleans | LA | ASW |
| BOS | General Edward Lawrence Logan International | Boston | MA | AEA |
| ACK | Nantucket Memorial | Nantucket | MA | AEA |
| ORH | Worcester Regional | Worcester | MA | AEA |
| BWI | Baltimore / Washington International Thurgood Marshall | Baltimore | MD | AEA |
| BGR | Bangor International | Bangor | ME | AEA |
| PWM | Portland International Jetport | Portland | ME | AEA |
| DTW | Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County | Detroit | MI | AGL |
| MSP | Minneapolis - St. Paul International / World-Chamberlain | Minneapolis | MN | AGL |
| MCI | Kansas City International | Kansas City | MO | ACE |
| STL | St. Louis Lambert International | Saint Louis | MO | ACE |
| GTF | Great Falls International | Great Falls | MT | ANM |
| CLT | Charlotte / Douglas International | Charlotte | NC | AEA |
| GSO | Piedmont Triad International | Greensboro | NC | AEA |
| RDU | Raleigh-Durham International | Raleigh | NC | AEA |
| OMA | Eppley Airfield | Omaha | NE | ACE |
| MHT | Manchester | Manchester | NH | AEA |
| EWR | Newark Liberty International | Newark | NJ | AEA |
| SWF | Stewart International | Newburgh | NY | AEA |
| CLE | Cleveland Hopkins International | Cleveland | OH | AGL |
| DAY | James M Cox Dayton International | Dayton | OH | AGL |
| ILN | Wilmington Air Park | Wilmington | OH | AGL |
| EUG | Mahlon Sweet Field | Eugene | OR | ANM |
| PDX | Portland International | Portland | OR | ANM |
| MDT | Harrisburg International | Harrisburg | PA | AEA |
| PHL | Philadelphia International | Philadelphia | PA | AEA |
| PIT | Pittsburgh International | Pittsburgh | PA | AEA |
| PVD | Theodore Francis Green State | Providence | RI | AEA |
| GSP | Greenville Spartanburg International | Greer | SC | ASO |
| FSD | Joe Foss Field | Sioux Falls | SD | AGL |
| TYS | McGhee Tyson | Knoxville | TN | ACE |
| MEM | Memphis International | Memphis | TN | ACE |
| BNA | Nashville International | Nashville | TN | ACE |
| AUS | Austin-Bergstrom International | Austin | TX | ASW |
| DFW | Dallas / Fort Worth International | Dallas | TX | ASW |
| AFW | Fort Worth Alliance | Fort Worth | TX | ASW |
| HOU | William P Hobby | Houston | TX | ASW |
| IAH | George Bush Intercontental / Houston | Houston | TX | ASW |
| SLC | Salt Lake City International | Salt Lake City | UT | ANM |
| RIC | Richmond International | Richmond | VA | AEA |
| SEA | Seattle-Tacoma International | Seattle | WA | ANM |
| GEG | Spokane International | Spokane | WA | ANM |
| MSN | Dane County Regional - Truax Field | Madison | WI | AGL |
| MKE | General Mitchell International | Milwaukee | WI | AGL |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ A-SMGCS on Skybrary
- ^ Babar, Sultan (2023-10-05). "Sultan M. Babar - Physician Informaticist - The Moving Medicine Blog". sultan.babar.me. Retrieved 2024-09-25.
- ^ "Flight Operations Branch – LVO/SMGCS Program". Archived from the original on 2016-10-14. Retrieved 2016-10-13.
Further reading
[edit]- Advanced Surface Movement Guidance and Control Systems (A-SMGCS) Manual
- Validation Master Plan for A-SMGCS Implementation Level I
- Validation Master Plan for A-SMGCS Implementation Level II