Dutch Caribbean Air Navigation Service Provider (DC-ANSP) has announced that it has partnered with Aireon to deploy a space-based ADS-B surveillance service in the Curaçao Flight Information Region (FIR), the company said.
DC-ANSP will have 100 percent air traffic surveillance over the 300,000 square kilometers that make up Curaçao´s FIR. Adjacent to Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica and Colombia, the majority of this FIR is oceanic.
The Curaçao FIR is a major throughway for flights; DC-ANSP manages critical routes between the United States, Central America, South America, the Caribbean and Europe throughout the Curaçao FIR. Because of space-based ADS-B coverage, DC-ANSP´s air traffic controllers will be able to reduce separation and guide overflight efficiency in the northwestern sector of the Curaçao FIR.
Curacao has a January 1, 2020 ADS-B equipage mandate for part of the airspace where there is no conventional radar coverage. Users in Class A airspace must be ADS-B equipped.
Aireon LLC has deployed a space-based air traffic surveillance system for Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) equipped aircraft throughout the entire globe.
DC-ANSP was founded as Netherlands Antilles Air Traffic Control (NAATC) which was incorporated in Curaçao on 9 February 2005 and became operational on 1 April 2006. DC-ANSP is an Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP) which is responsible for the Air Traffic Services (ATS) within the Curaçao Flight Information Region (FIR).
