Transport committee  Each country sets its own safety standards. Most countries belong to ICAO, and ICAO has recommended standards and practices. Canada is obviously a leading member of ICAO and like most developed countries adopts most of those standards and practices. Each country sometimes has res

Transport committee  I'm not sure what phase 2 is. I'll have to check on that.

Transport committee  That really relates to the PBN initiatives that I was talking about in my testimony. The Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal corridor was chosen initially because of the density of traffic in that corridor that produced a lot of positive results. However, performance-based navigation, sat

Transport committee  I guess there are two distinct issues. The issue of whether you have a prescriptive regulatory approach, or a performance-based one, has been around in aviation for quite awhile. We're really talking about matters of airworthiness, and operation, and so on. Noise regulations are

Transport committee  I think each particular complaint would have to be looked at specifically. I can tell you generally that the implementation of these changes was done over, first, a consultation period that lasted a better part of a year. However, of all of the changes in the flight paths that we

Transport committee  The system was developed as a proposal. We worked in this case in conjunction with the airports in Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal. The material was published. We set up special websites. We held public meetings with the noise management committees in all three cities. A whole host

Transport committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and members of the committee. Thank you for inviting me to appear before the committee as part of your study on innovative transportation technologies. I'm pleased to be here to speak of Nav Canada's strong track record in this area and the technologies

Transport committee  It would depend on the specifics. We have certain separation standards and procedures in air traffic control. If somebody was going to propose something that would violate those standards, well, then, we would have recourse to put a stop to it.

Transport committee  I should clarify that we're indicating, as a result of what happened in Vancouver, that in the future we will consult. But the consultation that we've been involved in up until now has really simply been through our membership on the airport noise management committees. So that c

Transport committee  Again, I don't want to be ducking the question, but Nav Canada has absolutely no jurisdiction on the aircraft noise standards.

Transport committee  As I think I indicated, you have to understand that the changes we made in Vancouver were not in the immediate area of the airport. They were quite a bit further back, and they were really in the transition zone from the en route airspace to the approach phase for Vancouver. So w

Transport committee  As we indicated, up to 10 nautical miles, or 19 kilometres, is usually the area where the airports will look into this. And the changes we've made, quite frankly, we've made in many locations over the years and they've never caused a problem. As I indicated, we were quite surpris

Transport committee  What we're indicating is that because this was the first time we ran into this type of situation in that category of airspace, we've made it a corporate undertaking. I'll repeat here tonight for the record that in the future when we have those types of changes that we're contempl

Transport committee  I really think, given the nature of these types of changes, it wouldn't be necessary. And I don't think the objective evidence indicates that there's a real issue.

Transport committee  I'm just giving you my opinion. These types of changes are usually non-controversial.