A us carrier aircraft operating internationally with ads-B installed did not have the ads-B operatio...

Narrative:

While operating flights it came to my attention that these flights were filed and released by our company operations above flight level 290 in ads-B required airspace. The affected airspace were vietnam; china (sanya) and hong kong. I contacted operations a couple times during this week with questions about our equipment coding on our flight plans. The questions arose from inquiries from hong kong clearance delivery and departure control about our capabilities to accept altitudes FL290 and above. Operations informed me that the coding on the flight plans was correct and would look into the problem with the higher altitude confusion. The response I received; was that we were RNP4 authorized and should not be limited below FL290.after further research; I discovered that we do not have operations specifications approval to operate ads-B equipment in these fir's. I became aware of this after our last trip into vhhh.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A US carrier aircraft operating internationally with ADS-B installed did not have the ADS-B Operations Specification on file indicating its aircraft were authorized flight above FL290.

Narrative: While operating flights it came to my attention that these flights were filed and released by our company operations above flight level 290 in ADS-B required airspace. The affected airspace were Vietnam; China (Sanya) and Hong Kong. I contacted operations a couple times during this week with questions about our equipment coding on our flight plans. The questions arose from inquiries from Hong Kong clearance delivery and departure control about our capabilities to accept altitudes FL290 and above. Operations informed me that the coding on the flight plans was correct and would look into the problem with the higher altitude confusion. The response I received; was that we were RNP4 authorized and should not be limited below FL290.After further research; I discovered that we do not have Operations Specifications approval to operate ADS-B equipment in these FIR's. I became aware of this after our last trip into VHHH.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Attributes
ACN	1265531
Time
Date	201505
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZZ.ARTCC
State Reference	FO
Environment
Light	Night
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	B767 Undifferentiated or Other Model
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Cruise
Flight Plan	IFR
Component
Aircraft Component	Transponder
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying
Person 2
Function	Pilot Flying Captain
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy

A us carrier aircraft operating internationally with ads-B installed did not have the ads-B operations specification on file indicating its aircraft were authorized flight above FL290.