ED Decision 2018/004/R

Balloons shall have a secondary surveillance radar (SSR) transponder with all the capabilities required in accordance with point (b) of point SERA.6005 of the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 923/2012 and, if the flight takes places in airspace of a third country, the law of that third country.

ED Decision 2018/004/R

General

1. The secondary surveillance radar (SSR) transponders of balloons being operated under European air traffic control should comply with any applicable single European sky legislation.
2. If the single European sky legislation is not applicable, the SSR transponders should operate in accordance with the relevant provisions of Volume IV of ICAO Annex 10 to the Chicago Convention, ‘Aeronautical telecommunications’.

SUBPART BAS — BASIC OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS