PANSA Aeronautical Information Request Service 1.0.0
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Abstract

PANSA Aeronautical Information Request Service is a CP1 compliant SWIM service. PANSA Aeronautical Information Request Service allows the service consumer to get aeronautical information concerning the actual and future infrastructure to be used by air traffic such as aerodromes, airspaces, navigation aids and ATS routes. The exact information needed by the service consumer can be specified in the request e.g. based on feature name or the location of the feature. The information returned is in the form of an AIXM 5.1 message.

Service Type
SWIM_COMPLIANT
Abbreviation
PANSA
Life Cycle
OPERATIONAL
Business Activity Type
INFORMATION_MANAGEMENT
Intended Consumer
AERONAUTICAL_INFORMATION_SERVICE_PROVIDER
AIR_TRAFFIC_SERVICE_PROVIDER
AIRPORT_OPERATOR
CIVIL_AIR_NAVIGATION_SERVICE_PROVIDER
CIVIL_AIRSPACE_USER
MILITARY_AIR_NAVIGATION_SERVICE_PROVIDER
MILITARY_AIRSPACE_USER
NETWORK_MANAGER
PROVIDER_OF_DATA_SERVICES
Information Exchange Category
AERONAUTICAL_INFORMATION_EXCHANGE
Application Message Exchange Pattern Entity
REQUEST_REPLY
ICAO Region
FIR WARSZAWA
Geospatial Categorisation Description
FIR EPWW
In-Operation Date
24-Dec-2025
Provider
PANSA

PANSA is responsible for air traffic management and navigation services in Poland. The key activities of the organisation include airspace management and ensuring safe and efficient flow of air traffic. Every day, the Polish Air Navigation Services Agency (PANSA) takes care of the safety of passengers of about 2 500 aircraft moving over Poland, and coordinates thousands of drone flights out of nearly 1 million registered in the PansaUTM system. The airspace we supervise and control covers more than 334 000 square kilometers and is one of the largest in Europe. PANSA is the only institution in Poland that trains and employs civilian air traffic controllers.

Provider Type
AERONAUTICAL_INFORMATION_SERVICE_PROVIDER
Point of Contact
General Information

PANSA Aeronautical Information Request Service uses OGC Web Feature Service queries to provide on-demand aeronautical information encoded in AIXM 5.1 format.

Data Services

Query and aggregate data from different sources, in order to produce e.g. flight manuals, FMS (Flight Management System)

Airport Operations

Provide and use aeronautical information/data supporting airport operations in order to facilitate the oversight of the airside operations, landside operations as well as information management related to the collection and distribution of daily flight information.

Aeronautical Information Management

Provide and consume aeronautical information in order to discharge the obligations of the ICAO Member States in line with the Chicago Convention and its Annexes, such as Annex 15 (Aeronautical Information Services), Annex 4 (Aeronautical Charts), facilitate cross-border data coordination, supporting LoAs, SLAs, etc.

Air Traffic Services

Use aeronautical information and data in FDP (Flight Data Processing) systems and ARO (Air Traffic Services Reporting Office) services.

Civil and Military Air Navigation Services

Use aeronautical information and data supporting the provision of air traffic and flow management, CNS (Communication Navigation Surveillance) services, aeronautical information and meteorologic services, SAR (Search and Rescue) services.

Network Management

Use aeronautical information and data for the management and provision of the European ATM Network services including ATFM, ATFCM, IFPS, etc.

Capabilities

The methods implemented by the service offer a large palette of aeronautical information data, required by customers who consume and provide harmonized and up-to-date data.

Provide Aeronautical Features in AIXM 5.1 Format

PANSA Aeronautical Information Request Service provides a query interface by means of the standardized OGC Web Feature Service (WFS) returning existing data according to the applied filters. When temporal filters are used, PANSA Aeronautical Information Request Service provides a temporal query interface (based on a Temporal Extension (WFS-TE)) returning the requested data in accordance with the AIXM 5.1 temporality.

Access

In order to be able to access and use PANSA Aeronautical Information Request Service, Consumers need to sign the Agreement.

Policy

The PANSA Aeronautical Information Request Service consumers may use data in order to integrate it in data products or facilitate their operations. Reselling data is prohibited.

Fair Use

Customers can be negatively impacted when data usage is disproportionate and for extended periods. As protection mechanism, PANSA Aeronautical Information Request Service service will restrict excessive requests originated from the same client.

Authentication

The authentication requires all users to sign the requests using an X.509 certificate.

Authorisation

In order to consume the PANSA Aeronautical Information Request Service services, the Data Consumer user must have the appropriate user roles corresponding to the user roles and associated permissions.

Time Behaviour - aeronautical-information-wfs

Response Time is designed in function of the operation complexity.- Low Complexity filter criteria in an AIS Data Query, the average response time is less or equal to 6 seconds- Medium Complexity filter criteria in an AIS Data Query, the average response time is less or equal to 9 seconds- High Complexity filter criteria in an AIS Data Query, the average response time is less or equal to 22.5 seconds- Very High Complexity filter criteria in an AIS Data Query, the average response time is less or equal to 75 seconds- Low complexity query parameters:-- (Dynamic) Feature Filter--- Validity - validTime--- Identifier.DataSource--- Interpretation--- NaturalDescriptorExtension-- Time slice Projection--- relevantTime--- Interpretation- Medium complexity query parameters:-- Any combination of Low complexity filter conditions and-- (Dynamic) Feature Filter--- By Feature time slice Simple Properties-- Time slice Projection--- By Feature time slice Simple Properties- High complexity query parameters:-- Any combination of filter conditions with:--- Low complexity--- Medium complexity and-- (Dynamic)Feature Filter--- By Feature time slice complex properties--- One Spatial Filter Condition-- Time slice Projection--- By Feature time slice complex properties- Very high complexity query parameters:-- Any combination of filter conditions with:--- Low complexity--- Medium complexity--- High complexity and-- (Dynamic)Feature Filter--- multiple Spatial Filter Condition

Availability

The availability of PANSA Aeronautical Information Request Service Service is at least 99,975%.

Recoverability

The unplanned unavailability of PANSA Aeronautical Information Request Service services shall not exceed 60 minutes (RTO = 60 minutes). In case of incidents PANSA Aeronautical Information Request Service service ensures that no data is lost (RPO = 15) followed by operational procedures to recover potential data losses.

Confidentiality

To ensure data confidentiality, the PANSA Aeronautical Information Request Service is accessed via HTTPS using mutual TLS (mTLS), which encrypts all messages and payloads during transmission over the network.

Integrity

The PANSA Aeronautical Information Request Service service payloads are wrapped with MD5 checksum algorithm providing the possibility to verify that data didn't suffer unintended corruption. Further, data integrity is ensured by the mTLS (which is based on TLS v1.2).

AIM

Aeronautical Information Management

AIP

Aeronautical Information Publication

AIRAC

Aeronautical Information Regulation and Control

AIRM

ATM Information Reference Model

AIS

Aeronautical Information Services

AIXM

Aeronautical Information Exchange Model

AMC

Airspace Management Cell

ARO

Air Traffic Services Reporting Office

ATFCM

Air Traffic Flow and Capacity Management

ATFM

Air Traffic Flow Management

ATM

Air Traffic Management

CDR

Conditional Route

CIR

Committed Information Rate

CNS

Communication, Navigation & Surveillance

D_AMC

AMC - manageable Danger Area

ADR

Airspace Data Repository

EASA

European Union Aviation Safety Agency

ECAC

European Civil Aviation Conference

FAT

Factory Acceptance Testing

FCM

Flow and Capacity Management

FDP

Flight Data Processing

FMS

Flight Management System

FRA

Free Route Airspace

FUA

Flexible Use of Airspace

GAT

General Air Traffic

GML

Geography Markup Language

GUID

Globally Unique Identifier

HTTP

Hypertext Transport Protocol

ICAO

International Civil Aviation Organization

ICD

Interface Control Document

IFPS

Integrated Initial Flight Plan Processing System

ITP

Information Technology Provider

MTOM

Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism

OAT

Operational Air Traffic

OGC

Open Geospatial Consortium

R_AMC

AMC manageable Restricted Area

RPO

Recovery Point Objective

RTO

Recovery Time Objective

SAR

Search and Rescue

SAT

Site Acceptance Testing

SLA

Service Layer Agreement

SLS

Service Level Specification

SOAP

Simple Object Access Protocol

SQT

System Quality Testing

SWIM

System-Wide Information Management

TLS

Transport Layer Security

URL

Uniform Resource Locator

UUID

Universally Unique Identifier

VPN

Virtual Private Network

WFS

Web Feature Service

WSDL

Web Service Description Language

XML

Extensible Markup Language

Information
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AIXM

https://aixm.aero

The Aerospace Data Repository (ADR) implements the Flexible Use of Airspace (FUA) data model extension which supports: AMC - manageable areas (D_AMC, R_AMC), conditional routes (CDR) and Free Route Airspace (FRA). The supported feature extensions can be found using the following link: https://aixm.aero/schema/5.1/extensions/EUR/EAD/ADR/EADADR_Features.xsd

https://aixm.aero/schema/5.1/extensions/EUR/EAD/ADR/EADADR_DataTypes.xsd
PANSA AIM System
CountDefault Constraint

As recommended in OGC WFS Profile best practices document, the CountDefault parameter is restricted to a value of 100. Consequently, all WFS requests that do not specify a value for the "count" parameter will return at most 100 results.

Spatial Filter

With reference to OGC Web Feature Service (WFS) PANSA Aeronautical Information Request Service supports the following spatial filters: BBox.

Temporal Filter

With reference to OGC Web Feature Service (WFS) (OGC 09-025r2). With reference to OGC Web Feature Service (WFS) Temporality Extension (OGC 12-027r3) PANSA Aeronautical Information Request Service does not implement the following use cases: Use case 1 and Use case 2,7.

Data Consumption

The PANSA Aeronautical Information Request Service is provided as a REST API based on WS-Light standards. To ensure system stability and fair usage, excessive or abusive request patterns may be subject to rate limiting or access throttling.

Normal Conditions

Under normal operating conditions, the Data Consumer sends requests compliant with the OGC Web Feature Service (WFS) and WFS Temporality Extension (WFS-TE) standards to the PANSA Aeronautical Information Request Service. The service processes spatial and temporal queries and responds with aeronautical information encoded in AIXM 5.1 format. Clients are expected to construct requests using supported operators as defined in the applicable standards.

Error Handling

The service provides error responses according to the OGC OWS ExceptionReport standard. Clients can expect clear feedback indicating the outcome of each request, following structured and consistent error reporting practices.

PANSA Aeronautical Information Request Service Interface

The interface is used to group the operations offered by the OGC Web Feature Service 2.0 Interface Standard.

PROVIDER_SIDE
REQUEST_REPLY
Operations
ExceptionReport
References
AIRM Semantic Correspondence

urn:aero:airm:1.2.0:ContextualModel:ATMBusinessTerms:Aeronautical_information

Reference

The semantic correspondence with AIXM 5.1 can be found here:

https://airm.aero/developers/advanced-search/1.2.0/Aeronautical%2520information?model=ContextualModel
Use of GML for Aviation Data

The GML Profile for aeronautical data is limited to 2D elements and includes only the features necessary for encoding geometries of type point, line/curve and polygon/surface (outer boundaries only). The following components of GML are out of scope for the AIXM GML Profile: Topology, Linear Referencing, Coverages. This additional GML component necessary to the ISO 19139 (gco /basicTypes.xsd), which is imported in the GML and AIXM metadata, needs additional types. These types are not included in this profile.

OGC Web Feature Service

This International Standard specifies the behaviour of a service that provides transactions on and access to geographic features in a manner independent of the underlying data store. It specifies discovery operations, query operations, locking operations, transaction operations and operations to manage stored parameterized query expressions.

WS LIGHT

REST (Representational State Transfer) is a set of constraints for designing and developing web-based systems that are scalable, reliable, and loosely coupled. REST APIs use HTTP methods (such as GET, POST, PUT, DELETE) to define actions that can be performed on resources. These methods align with CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations, which are used to manipulate resources over the web.

XML

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing arbitrary data. It defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable.

Revision Save Date
Thu, 04/09/2026 - 14:24
Schema version
v2