Events

CNS Task Force meeting: 5-7 April at the NOAA Silver Spring, MD campus, 1315 East-West Hwy, Silver Spring, MD 20910

2016 ARINC NDB/NDBX Working Group :  Navigation Data Base (NDB) Subcommittee, February 23-25, 2016, in Opfikon, Switzerland

Aeronautical Charting Forum (ACF) 15-01 and Instrument Procedures Group meeting: October 27-29, 2015 at the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Headquarters in Reston, VA.

NGA Aero Week, 11-15 May 2015 at the Hilton Garden Inn Regency Conference Center, O’Fallon, Illinois.  The robust agenda of events scheduled for the week include working group meetings, general sessions, and equipment and capability demonstrations from the NGA Aero Team as well as a number of their partners.

RTCA Special Committee 217 (SC-217) Meeting:  Washington DC, June 15 – 19, 2015.

ARINC NDB Working Group:  MITRE, 202 Burlington Road, Bedford, Massachusetts, June 23 – 25, 2015, 9 am to 5pm.  The goal of the NDB Working Group is to assist aircraft operators, Manufacturers, regulatory authorities, and database suppliers to maximize the operational and economic benefits of FMS navigation by the exchange of technical information that improves overall system performance.

Aeronautical Charting Forum (ACF) 15-01 and Instrument Procedures Group meeting: April 28 – 30, 2015, hosted by Pragmatics Incorporated, at their Reston, Virginia location.

The Aeronautical Charting Forum is a public forum held two times every year and is the primary method of adding and modifying charting specifications.

The Instrument Procedures Group portion of the ACF includes briefings and discussions on recommendations regarding pilot procedures for instrument flight, as well as criteria, design, and developmental policy for instrument approach and departure procedures.

CNS Task Force Meeting, 7-9 April 2015 at MITRE Corporation, 7525 Colshire Drive, McLean, VA 22102

ARINC Navigation Database (NDB/NDBX) Working Group meeting, October 21 – 23, 2014 at Universal Avionics System Corporation in Tucson, AZ. During this meeting the NDB Subcommittee will review proposals for incorporation into the Navigation Data Base Standard, draft Supplement 21 to ARINC Specification 424 or ARINC Project Paper 424A.

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) – Aeronautical Working Group, Aero Week:  November 17 – 21, 2014 at the Hilton Garden Regency Conference Center, O’Fallon, IL.

Aeronautical Charting Forum (ACF) 14-02:  October 28 – 31, 2014, hosted by Innovative Solutions International at Pragmatics, Inc., Reston, Virginia.  ACF includes both Instrument Procedures Group (IPG) and the Charting Group (CG).

• Instrument Procedures Group includes briefings and discussions on recommendations regarding pilot procedures for instrument flight, and criteria, design, and developmental policy for instrument approach and departure procedures.
• The Aeronautical Charting Forum is the primary method of adding and modifying charting specifications.

Air Transportation Information Exchange Conference:  August 26-29, 2014, Washington, DC, USA  The FAA will host the fourth Air Transportation Information Exchange Conference on August 26-29, 2014.  Location is TBD.  The conference is intended for the aeronautical information, aviation meteorological (MET), and flight object communities.

Aeronautical Database Manufacturer Forum:  July 29, 2014.  AeroNavData is participating in this important newly formed Database Manufacturing Forum Web Conference.    Topics of interest:  discussion related to proposing Data Supplier/State Feedback and Resolution Process.