ADS-B EQUIPAGE

Automatic dependent surveillance - broadcast airborne equipage monitoring

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At EUROCONTROL, in the context of our wider automatic dependent surveillance - broadcast (ADS-B) activity, we have been monitoring ADS-B airborne equipage in Europe since 2000.

Through our ADS-B equipage monitoring task, we provide data on aircraft equipage rates and related metrics.

We base ourselves on surveillance data gathered by our own infrastructure, as well as data provided by air navigation service providers (ANSPs), ensuring that this process is efficient and cost-effective for our Member States and other stakeholders.

To showcase our activity, the following data illustrates the evolution of aircraft equipage with ADS-B version 2 to comply with the European Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1770 of 12 September 2023.

ADS-B v2 equipage

Aircraft
96.5%
Flights
98.4%

Note: This graph presents the ADS-B v2 equipage rate of aircraft and flights operating in the NM area. The aircraft equipage rate is the percentage of ADS-B v2 equipped aircraft with respect to the total aircraft fleet. The flights equipage rate is the percentage of flights performed by ADS-B v2 equipped aircraft relative to the total number of flights.

This graph presents the ADS-B v2 equipage rate of aircraft operating in the NM area per market segment. The aircraft equipage rate is the percentage of ADS-B v2 equipped aircraft with respect to the total aircraft fleet. The aircraft classification has been derived following the STATFOR market segment rules.

Our ADS-B density map represents the proportion of flights equipped with ADS-B v2 with respect to the total number of flights derived from EUROCONTROL Network Manager. Regions outside of the NM area do not include local traffic.

≥ 99%
(99-97]%
(98-95]%
(95-90]%
< 90%

Our ADS-B airborne equipage TMAs map depicts the ADS-B airborne equipage in the terminal airspace of the top 200 European airports. It is estimated as the proportion of aircraft equipped with ADS-B v2 with respect to the total number of aircraft operations (arrivals and departures).

The equipage rate is represented by the colours based on the legend below.

Note: For more information click on the corresponding circle.

≥ 99%
(99-97]%
(98-95]%
(95-90]%
< 90%

ADS-B v2 equipage – EU aircraft

EU
97.1%

Note: This graph presents the ADS-B v2 equipage rate of aircraft operating in the NM area and registered in the EU27+4 States (EU’s 27 Member States, as well as Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and UK).

ADS-B v2 equipage – Non-EU aircraft

Africa
90.0%
Asia
98.1%
North America
96.8%

Note: This graph presents the ADS-B v2 equipage rate of aircraft operating in the NM area and registered outside of the EU27+4 States. These aircraft are mainly long haul.

Note:

ADS-B version 2 corresponds to the EUROCAE ED-102A/RTCA DO-260B Minimum Operational Performance Specification (MOPS).
Information shown in the graphs has been recalculated in January 2021 following an enlargement of our monitoring capabilities to a complete coverage.

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