Full Description

This document contains Minimum Operational Performance Standards (MOPS) for Flight Information Services - Broadcast (FIS-B) system with Universal Access Transceiver (UAT). These standards specify system characteristics that should be useful to designers, manufacturers, installers and users of the equipment.

Compliance with these standards is recommended as one means of assuring that the equipment will perform its intended function(s) satisfactorily under all conditions normally encountered in routine aeronautical operation. Any regulatory application of this document is the sole responsibility of appropriate governmental agencies.

This document considers an equipment configuration consisting of the airborne processing and cockpit display of aeronautical and meteorological data known as FIS-B provided by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).1 Functions or components that refer to equipment capabilities that exceed the stated minimum requirements are identified as optional features.