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Safe Altitude Area (SAA) Sector (GA022)
DGIF baseline 2026-1, the latest. Earlier baselines: timemap.
RDF: ga022.ttl
- Name
SafeAltitudeAreaSector- Kind
- FeatureType
- Definition
- A subdivision of a Safe Altitude Area (SAA) within which there is a single set of minimum altitudes.
- Description
- A safe altitude area defines an obstruction-free minimum altitude for safe aircraft operations within 25 nautical miles of an aerodrome. An SAA is usually divided into sectors, allowing lower altitudes at certain areas around the aerodrome, based on where common aircraft operations may take place.
- Accepted
- 2013-10-18
- Geometry
- point, multipoint, curve, multicurve, surface, multisurface, solid, multisolid
- Subtype of
- ZI028 Feature Entity
- Attributes
- ESA Emergency Safe Altitude (ESA) — multiplicity 0..1; datatype MeasureMeta
- MSA Minimum Sector Altitude (MSA) — multiplicity 0..1; datatype MeasureMeta
- RWOI terms naming it
Source: DGIF 2026-1 QEA model, DGIWG. Standard: DGIWG 206-3. Licence: CC BY 4.0, © DGIWG.