EUROCONTROL delivers advances in six key areas helping to make SESAR a reality, EUROCONTROL (European Organization for the Safety of Air Navigation)
Release Date: 2010-05-25
Brussels, Belgium - In the past three months, EUROCONTROL, together with its partners, has made major steps forward in six key areas that will help to form the basis for Implementation Package 1 (IP1), the foundations of the SESAR programme.In close collaboration with the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), EUROCONTROL has set in concrete the technical foundation for tomorrow’s digital world of aeronautical information exchanges guaranteeing instantaneous access to accurate information. The latest product consists of an Aeronautical Information Exchange Model (AIXM-5) which will now become the universal standard and stepping stone towards the initial operational capability for digital Notices to Airmen (NOTAM) to be applied worldwide.
“This is a significant evolution compared to today’s relatively efficient but static systems as it sets new rules for improving efficiency, integrity and speed of information distribution amongst aviation players,” says Paul Bosman of EUROCONTROL.
AIXM-5 will also be used by the European Commission as a means to ensure compliance with the newly published Interoperability Regulation dealing with Aeronautical Data Quality.
EUROCONTROL’s FASTI Programme has just completed trials of System Supported Coordination (SYSCO) between Zurich and Geneva ACCs with partner skyguide, the Swiss ANSP. SYSCO is part of the FASTI package permitting controllers to send messages across borders screen to screen, allowing them to transfer traffic and engage in electronic dialogue without picking up the telephone. These messages also automatically update the neighbours’ systems thus further saving controller workload and improving the quality of service to airspace users.
The trials were a great success the Swiss controllers would like implementation now but will have to wait since the implementation roadmap is not yet finalized. This roadmap will contain stripless working methods, operational deployment of Mode S (ELS and EHS), CPDLC, SYSCO and will also bring together Geneva and Zurich under one operational concept within the next 4 to 5 years.
SYSCO is important for FABs as it can address the need to solve European fragmentation of systems by joining up ACCs in a chain making them and their systems work together across the network. All this using existing technology. Skyguide is part of FABEC where the partners have recently published their own SYSCO roadmap to implementation. More than twenty ANSP and FAB organisations participated in the trials’ open days. European coordination will now align the implementation planning and deployment of SYSCO between service providers in the coming five years.
| Type: | NORMAL |
| Company: | EUROCONTROL (European Organization for the Safety of Air Navigation) |
| Country: | Belgium |