ENAV, the first and only Air Navigation Service Provider in the world to be listed on a Stock Exchange, has been an exhibitor at the Canso World ATM Congress ever since the first edition of the Event which will take place from 6 to 8 March, in a renovated Pavilion of the Madrid exhibition complex, Institución Ferial de Madrid (IFEMA). The event, now in its sixth edition, is the most important international event in the Air Traffic Management (ATM) sector and hosts the main Providers and the most prestigious industries related to the world of air transport every year, with more than 190 exhibiting companies from over 120 countries. A large number of hosted buyers and international guests will be visiting the stand for institutional and business meetings that will make the presence of the Company at the Canso World ATM Congress 2018 even more effective. ENAV plays a fundamental role in the most important international projects and programs such as SESAR Joint Undertaking, SESAR Deployment Manager, BLUE MED, BLUEGNSS, 4-Flight/Coflight and it’s a significant shareholder in major international companies, AIREON and ESSP-EGNOS. The Company is also involved in a series of working tables within international Institutions and Organizations such Eurocontrol, ICAO, the European Commission and CANSO. ENAV is leader in providing high quality services and solutions for Air Traffic Control, and commercializes a wide range of services, products and consulting, worldwide, including Aeronautical Consulting and Design, Maintenance and Engineering, Training, Flight Inspection and Meteo Services. ENAV will participate, as speaker, in various scheduled seminars and planned international working groups during the Event, with the commitment, expertise, and passion that have always distinguished the Company.
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Enav is the Italian company which offers services for air traffic control and other essential air navigation services in Italian skies and national airports. Airspace is a precious and limited resource that must be managed punctually, safely and in operational continuity and which must be in line with the growth of the aeronautical sector. Enav provides a safe flight environment to thousand of aircrafts in our skies and harmonious traffic conditions on a daily basis.
Title: Beyond the Virtual Centre concept, a Digital Transformation of ATM in the Cloud
Speaker: Luigi Mazzucchelli, ENAV Technical Department Head ATM Systems Platforms - ENAV
Title: ENAV Decision Support System (DSS). A powerful ally to ensure highest level of Safety in ATS Units
Speaker: Marco Giancarli, Business Development Department - ENAV
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Title: Italian Solution to Enable U-Space
Speaker: Cristiano Baldoni, ENAV Technical Department Head of CNS, Meteo and ICT Security - ENAV
Title: Safeguarding Continuity of ILS Services, an innovative service-oriented solution
Speaker: Davide Tangorra, Head of sales - ENAV
ENAV has the international dimension at the heart of its daily work.It is one of the major European Air Navigation Service Providers, in terms of volume of controlled Airspace and movements as well as investments in technology innovation and R&D, also including programmes and partnerships at global level. ENAV has an outstanding expertise in Air Traffic Management (ATM) operations and services, in the development and validation of new concept of operations and procedures and in working with the supply industry to innovate, design, engineer and plan the implementation of new systems to safely support the Air Traffic Controllers in their highly demanding tasks. In line with its mission, ENAV has a leading role in the European and Mediterranean area while also working with the neighbor-ing regions by promoting synergies with other Service Providers and supporting the implementation of the Single European Sky. ENAV is also fully involved in all initiatives aimed at addressing the main challenges the aviation industry has to face today: the coordination of the research and development activities in the SESAR field, the deployment and coordinated rationalization of the air navigation systems, the growing need for the digitalization and virtualization of Air Traffic Management platforms, the synchronized implementation of technological and operational priorities, the need for an enhanced regulatory framework appli-cable at regional and global level as well as the emerging needs such as satellite technologies, drones and UTM. ENAV strategy and cooperation activities aim at developing synergies with the major ATM stakeholders to continuously improve the safety and quality of services provided and to explore the opportunities offered by the technology innovation for the benefit of all customers and finally the wider aviation community. ENAV plays an important role in the development of the A6 Alliance, the strategic partnership amongst some of the key Air Navigation Service Providers in Europe that in 2018, as a major driver for ANSP business and investments, will be steered by the ENAV Ceo Roberta Neri. ENAV, through acknowledged experts, actively contributes to the work of international institutions and organizations such as ICAO, EASA, Eurocontrol, EUROCAE as well as its trade association CANSO (Civil Air Navigation Services Organization). The international domain represents one of the key pillars for the future of aviation and ENAV is fully committed to provide its contribution.
Strongly convinced
of the pivotal role of the SESAR Joint Undertaking (SJU) in the Single European
Sky framework to conduct a delivery-oriented and performance-driven Research
& Innovation (R&I) Programme, ENAV renewed its full participation in
the SJU and its active support to SESAR 2020 Programme in seamless continuation
with the work conducted in the first Devel-opment Phase - SESAR 1.
ENAV in SESAR 2020 Wave 1 (2016-2019) at
a Glance
Contribution of 1,100 man-months
Participation in 16 Projects (out of
24), 2 of which with “Coordinator” role
Coordinator of PJ22-SEabird “Validation
and Demonstration Engineering”
Coordinator of PJ03a-SUMO “Integrated Surface Management”
The SESAR 2020 Programme generates an innovation
pipeline towards deployment, by demonstrating the viability of techno-logical
and operational solutions already developed in SESAR 1 (2008-2016) in larger
and more operationally-integrated envi-ronments. SESAR 2020 is ensuring a
continuous flow of research results moving towards innovation and deployment.
The Programme currently consists of 24 projects – Industrial Research &
Validation and Very Large Scale Demonstrations and it is organised in two phases:
Wave 1 for the years 2017- 2019 and Wave 2 for the remaining years up to 2021.
More specifically, Wave 1 sees ENAV committed to the
study of several operational concepts and technologies built upon the work
already achieved with SESAR 1. 16 projects – of which 2 with leading role – are
carried out by ENAV in a number of do-mains such as airports, en-route and
terminal area along with planning, information management and IOP. More than 20
vali-dation activities planned by ENAV in Wave 1 address all Maturity Levels
(V1 to V3) and validation techniques.
ENAV got the leadership of the “Validation and
Demonstration Engineering” (PJ22 – SEabird) to support effective collaborative
requirements management and collection of all engineering data in the
Programme, expected to strengthen the work done in the previous Validation
Infrastructure Adaptation and Integration (SESAR1 WP3); in addition, ENAV
coordinates the research stream on “Integrated Surface Management” (PJ03a –
SUMO), continuing the work performed under SESAR 1, focused on the definition
and validation of operational concept related to the Guidance function of the
Advanced-Surface Movement Guid-ance and Control System (A-SMGCS) to support
controllers and flight crews in ground operations.
ENAV contribution in SESAR 2020 is complemented by a
number of national and international partners, named Linked Third Parties
(LTP): BULATSA, CIRA, Deep Blue, IBM, IDS, MATS, NAIS, Nav Canada and Techno
Sky (ENAV affiliate).
Specific long-term research
activities (the so-called Exploratory Research) are also addressed by the
Programmethrough ad-hoc Calls.
For
further information, please contact:
Daniele Teotino daniele.teotino@ENAV.it
In order to ensure ultimate effectiveness in the integrated process of build, integration, verification and validation of all ATM Systems, along the digitalization path, ENAV implemented the “National Test Facility” (NTF). The ENAV NTF is a fully fledged Cloud Data Center as well as a set of simulation, test and pre-operational rooms acting to support all the engineering and pre-operational phases of the ATM system chain. It serves all the ENAV programmes from Operational system SW maintenance, to Training of new concepts, the integration and validation of SESAR and new-generation of ATM components and systems, spanning three floors of a new dedicated building in Rome ACC.
The ENAV NTF is located at Rome ACC and it is equipped with a clustered Software Defined Data Center, made in collaboration of the biggest players in the IT market, Operational and test Rooms, Simulators and inter-connected with simulated and shadow mode data Nationwide. It was recently joined with the AIREON service delivery point in Ciampino. Born with the aim of managing multiple and concurrent test environments, serving multiple integrated teams, it now became the “cloud-service-enabler” for all new concepts validation in ENAV. The NTF can act as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service as well as ATC-as-a-service (e.g. Coflight Cloud Services).
The ENAV NTF serves the “Virtual Center” concept, by micro-services and secure micro-segmentation of (ATM systems) environments – allowing a fast, reliable, scalable, secure and affordable new infrastructure for the digital transformation. The NTF incorporated a new RPAS Simulation Facility, including the recently launched d-flight.it drone registration service in Italy and will serve research as well as pre-operational UTM-related phases.
As Validation and Testing Centre of ENAV it includes the SESAR industrial based ATC platforms, SESAR Airborne segment composed of the Advanced Cockpit Simulator “ACS” and a set of virtualized cockpit simulators called iA/C and a fully-fledged 270° (Remote) Tower Simulator and the connection to the network infrastructures to support real Live trials (incl. PENS).
For SESAR, the National Test facilities hosts the services for the PJ22 System Engineering Data Management Framework (SE-DMF.eu) that serves actively the preparation of the main artefacts and engineering data for the SESAR 2020 Programme.
For further information, please contact:
LUIGI.MAZZUCCHELLI@ENAV.IT
The SESAR
Deployment Manager (DM) is the body nominated by the European Commission to
coordinate and synchronize the Deployment Programme which aims at implementing
SESAR systems and procedures. In January 2018 the SESAR Deploy-ment Manager
(SDM) modified, under the Belgian law, its legal status in a non-for-profit
international association, the Sesar Deployment Alliance AISBL (SDA AISBL).
While the
scope of work carried out by the SDM remains unchanged, its membership has been
enlarged to HungaroControl, ROMATSA, and Ryanair which will cooperate alongside
the founding members of the SDA Consortium, selected by the Euro-pean
Commission on 5th December 2014: European airlines (Air France-KLM Group,
Easyjet, IAG e Lufthansa Group); airports (SDAG - SESAR related Deployment
Airport Group); and ANSPs like DFS (Germany), DSNA (France), ENAIRE (Spain), ENAV
and NATS (UK), in collaboration with PANSA (Poland) and a group of ANSPs
members of the COOPANS alliance made of AustroControl (Austria), Croatia
Control, IAA (Ireland), LFV (Sweden) and Naviair (Denmark).
The
current SDM legal status as legal entity has simplified the SDM management of
the activities of synchronizing the deploy-ment of the Pilot Common Project
(PCP), reviewing of the PCP and performing its role as Datalink Services (DLS)
implementation manager. Furthermore, the evolution in legal entity has also
streamlined the SDM role as coordinator of multiple SESAR modernisation
projects, in its capabilities to lead bids on behalf of subcontractors.
ENAV has
been playing a double (major) role in the SESAR Deployment Manager (SDM):
1.
as a
member of the SDA AISBL, ENAV participates to the governing bodies of the
organization and plays an important role at management level of the SDM.
1.
as an
Implementing Partner, ENAV successfully took part to the Calls for Proposals
2014, 2015, 2016 and applied for the 2017 Call, within the European funding programme
- Connecting Europe Facilities (CEF) which led to the granting of funds for
projects related to the implementation of the Deployment Programme.
To the 2017 Call the European Commission (EC) approved EUR 290 million
co-funding deployment pro jects co-ordinated by the SDM. ENAV has presented
projects for an amount of 47 million of the total cost.
For further info, please contact:
massimo.reale@enav.it
cristiano.cantoni@enav.it
The gradual evolution of aeronautical communications from analogic to digital is an actual and needed process. Global and European plans for the modernisation of ATM exist and deal with this topic in depth, aiming at managing this evolution in a comprehensive, timely and coordinated way.
ICAO Global Air Navigation Plan and European ATM Master Plan identify communication roadmaps, with overall indications both on related infrastructure and timing.
Data-Link Communications represent one of the major technical enabler for the SESAR Concept of Operations. In particular, the availability of Data-Link Communications constitutes the essential facilitator to the coordinated and efficient deployment of fundamental ATM Functions, such as i4D and SWIM.
ENAV has always been proactively involved in several international initiatives and projects (in some of them with a leading role), with the aim of analysing the governance models as well as the technical and operational aspects of the future Data-Link environment:
A6 Study on Data-Link Services (2013-2015)
SESAR JU Capacity Study (VDL mode 2 Capacity and Performance Analysis)
SESAR JU ELSA Study (VDL mode 2 Measurement, Analysis and Simulation campaign)
Data-Link Services implementation development activities in BLUEMED FAB Region
Implementation Projects in Innovative & Networks Executive Agency (INEA) CALLs 2014 and 2015
Implementation Projects in Innovative & Networks Executive Agency (INEA) CALL 2016: Path I – Implementation of the DLS transitional solution (Multi-Frequency in Blue Med area)
Path II – Preparatory activities towards the Target Solution
Implementation Projects in Innovative & Networks Executive Agency (INEA) CALL 2017:
» DLS European Target Solution assessment.
Data-Link VDLM2 Communication infrastructure in Italy is characterised by the innovative “dual-squitter” solution (also known as “dual-language”), which ensures the optimisation of the available technical resources and the better use of the RF spectrum.
In Italy, a stepwise approach has been chosen to implement DLS. Brindisi ACC was the first portion of Italian airspace where services associated with CM/CPDLC application were implemented since November 2016.
The remaining 3 ACCs Padua, Rome and Milan FIRs will be operational with CM/CPDLC application and its correlated services by April 2018, ensuring a gradual and smooth transition and providing benefits to the Airspace Users.
The development and implementation activities have increasingly allowed ENAV to gain a comprehensive and structured experience in the Data-Link Communications domain, which will pave the way to the wider platform of initiatives on which Europe will build its future ATM Data-Link Communication infrastructure.
For further info, please contact:
Cristiano.Baldoni @enav.it
Gianguido.Bragagnini @enav.it
The Long Term Research drives the development and evaluation of innovative and unconventional ideas, concepts, methods and technologies that can define, prepare and deliver the performance required for the next generation of European ATM system and thus contribute to its successful evolution.
The next generation of European ATM system shall be designed to enable new con-cepts of air operations and shall be capable to handle and integrate safely different types of air vehicles (e.g. not excluding RPAS, Hypersonic, etc.).
ENAV contribution to Long Term Research is intended to stimulate scientific research and to address where possible the known yet unsolved problems across the ATM Research domain transferring the results of past research and applying it to new appli-cations and/or novel technologies in search of innovative and ground breaking results.
ENAV is doing that pragmatically through the participation in several research S2020 Exploratory Research projects and Advisory Boards.
ENAV vision is that Long Term Research projects have the potential to provide results that can be carried upward through the ATM Industrial Research paving the way to the deployment of successful ATM concepts and technologies as required by the SESAR 2020 Vision.
For further information, please contact:
giancarlo.ferrara@enav.it
The A6 is the alliance of some of the main European Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs).
Its aim is to drive the modernisation of the European ATM network within SESAR for the benefit of all aviation stakeholders. Its role is to create synergies between the ANSP members of the SESAR JU to maximise customer and network benefits and to provide leadership at European level in critical technical and strategic areas. The A6 members, bound by a Memorandum of Co-operation, are full members of the SESAR Joint Undertaking, making the A6 uniquely placed to represent the interests of the ATM industry in the effective deployment of technologies and concepts de-veloped through SESAR.
The original Memorandum of Cooperation signed in 2011 by members of the original A6 Alliance (DSNA/France, DFS/ Germany, ENAV/Italy, ENAIRE/Spain, NATS/UK as well as Noracon Consortium including ANSPs of Austria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Norway and Sweden) has been revised to enable even greater cooperation extending the membership to COOPANS Alliance (ANSPs of Austria, Croatia, Denmark, Ireland and Sweden) and the B4 consortium (ANSPs of Czech Republic, Lithuania, Poland and Slovakia). Further, PANSA, Poland’s ANSP, became full member of the A6 Alliance and in 2017 the Alliance has widened the cooperation to Switzerland’s ANSP Skyguide, which has joined the A6 through a consor-tium with French DSNA.
The A6 Alliance is also part of the SESAR Deployment Alliance AISBL (SDA), the legal entity performing the role of the SESAR Deployment Manager since the 1st January 2018. To this scope, the Alliance signed a cooperation agreement with the new SDA members - HungaroControl and Romatsa - for the SESAR Deployment Manager function, through a consortium led by PANSA. The main topics driving the A6 activities are those that represent today and in the next future the main challenges that the avia-tion industry have to face to continue its evolution towards the SES goals, in particular: the coordination of the research and development activities in the SESAR field; the development and rationalization of the air navigation systems; the digitalization and virtualization of Air Traffic Management platforms; the synchronized implementation of technological and operational priorities dictated by the European "deployment" program and the enhanced regulatory framework applicable to all EU member states. In 2018 ENAV further enhanced its commitment and contribution to the A6 purposes with a view to proactively support the modernization process of the European ATM through the appointment of Mrs. Roberta Neri, ENAV CEO, as chairperson of the A6 Alliance. Thanks to the solid relationship among partners, the A6 managed to strengthen their position and represent an influencing voice for any process potentially affecting the ATM business, while tightening up relationships with major stakeholders, within the industry as well as with the European institutions.
For further info, please contact:
cristiano.cantoni@enav.it
4-Flight has the objective to
design, develop and put in operation the next generation of En route and
Approach Air Traffic Management System, replacing the one currently serving the
751.728 Kmq-wide Italian airspace.
The Programme is articulated
in two phases. The first one implements the new ATM system capabilities to be
deployed in the national air traffic support facilities. The second phase will
enrich the phase 1 system with new functionalities in order to comply with
future operational needs, new regulations and the future SESAR requirements for
the 2020 forward scenario.
The 4-Flight ATM system is
developed following a Model Driven Architecture (MDA) approach, adopting
state-of the art engineering practices and innovative technological enablers.
It integrates the new Flight Data Processor developed in the framework of the Coflight
eFDP Programme, with Finmeccanica and Thales constituting the supply Consortium
for ENAV and DSNA with the Eurocontrol ATM surveillance tracker and server
(ARTAS).
The 4-Flight ATM system
responds to state-of-the-art functional and non-functional specifications and
responds to the operational and technical requirements stemming from the SESAR
Programme.
4-Flight key functionalities
are:
integrated
Environment Data Management:
System-wide
environment data centralised management; Import/export from/to European and
local sources according to AIXM; Assisted setting of ATM system parametres;
Off-line preparation of multiple environment data sets with copy, merge and
migration facilities.
Enhanced Working
Position (WP):
Based on Java
software technology and OpenGL graphical engine; Predicted Range and Bearing:
both point-to-track to support air traffic planning management and track
to-track for quick check of separation; Graphical features for quick order
issuing (e.g. flight leg for rerouting using drag and drop).
Flexible Airspace
Management + Civil Military Coordination:
Flexible and
adaptive control of Civil and Military Air responsibility for the flight
crossing the GAT/OAT volumes, TSA areas, Strategic airspace constraint volumes;
Automatic CDR/TSA activation and deactivation according centralised and
configurable timetable, easy and prompt display of the CDR/TSA areas status.
Air Ground Data
Exchange (AGDE):
AGDE services fully
integrated in the ATM environment; AGDE HMI directly available on controller
positions and harmonized with HMI principles; Graphical objects (e.g.: label)
identify the point of contact between the HMI operator and the airborne;
Control and Monitoring of AGDE services is integrated in the system technical
maintenance platform; Recording and Playback of AGDE services is integrated in
the legal recording; Scalable and Flexible, each AGDE service can be separately
configured in the system and can be configured to interface any Service
Provider through any Network.
ENAV is implementing 4-Flight
in its Area Control Centres.
On the road to compliance with Pilot Common Project’s requirements and
SES implementing rules.
For further information, please contact:
claudio.cannavicci@enav.it
The Coflight-eFDP System is a next generation Flight Data Processing (FDP) System designed to meet the future needs of Air Navigation Service Providers, satisfying the necessity for the harmonisation and interoperability of air traffic management systems in Europe and facilitating the integration of advanced tools in the global ATM system, for the benefit of all transport stakeholders in compliance with Single European Sky and SESAR (Single European Sky ATM Research) programme objectives. The system will replace the current legacy flight data processing system with a modern one through a staged implementation plan. The system contains features that will satisfy the general needs of ATM in Europe and thanks to its open architecture its integration will be allowed in any particular air navigation services provider’s environment. To reduce maintenance costs and to facilitate developments, the system architecture is model driven (MDA) and comply with recognised standards (CORBA, object oriented languages, UML modelling tools). This new highly fault-tolerant architecture complies with the EU Safety Regulatory Requirements applicable to CNS/ATM systems. The basic philosophy of the implementation programme is to reduce risks to a minimum by adopting an incremental development strategy. The level of change at each step will be limited, enabling phased integration in the overall National and European ATM systems, rapid corrections in the case of errors and quick investment returns. Coflight provides also advanced functions like 4D trajectory predictions, interoperability with other systems and datalink capabilities, supporting current and future operational concepts. Enav and the French Air Navigation Service provider – DSNA (Direction de Services de la Navigation Aérienne) alongside industrial partners Leonardo and Thales, have confirmed - on June 2017 - their commitment to Coflight, the new generation Flight Data Processing System, reinforcing their cooperation to promote Coflight on the European scene by the establishment of a long-term support and maintenance services contract.
For further info, please contact:
claudio.cannavicci@enav.it
In March
2014 during the World ATM Congress (WAC), DSNA, Enav, MATS and Skyguide CEOs
launched the programme “Coflight Cloud Services” (CCS). The four ANSPs
partnered to study the feasibility of providing flight data processing and
related services based on Coflight-eFDP product as a first step towards Virtual
Centre Concept.
A
two-year feasibility study was conducted over 2015/2016, during which CCS
programme explored:
the
operational environment driving CCS concept (customers’ needs,
provider/customer responsibilities, commercial offers for future customers),
and the corresponding technical architecture for software, hardware and
network, also ensuring the future SWIM compliance of the solution; the legal
aspects for this programme on the contract part, but also on safety, security
and interoperability aspects ac-cording to current regulations; the
additional requirements that should be implemented in further steps of the
programme to make it fully operational according to partner’s needs; the
way(s) to have a smooth transition for customers from current ATM systems to
target systems including CCS; finally,
the economic aspects of this programme, starting with a market study followed
by an evaluation of business models of CCS once in operation for Customers.
This
two-year feasibility study was concluded by Trials, in order to demonstrate the
capability to provide a defined subset of the CCS services to a distant ANSP
and to validate the CCS technical aspects defined.
The operational environment has defined 5 CCS services that are the high
level business solutions proposed to Customers:
Each
mission has a specific operational objective which is reached by using a subset
of CCS services that are contractually pro-vided by a Provider to a Customer,
with dedicated agreed Service Levels. Description of Customers and Providers
expectations, requirements, and responsibilities for each CCS services has been
commonly elaborated, according to each partner’s needs.
By using
CCS, ANSPs will be able to deliver optimum performance to airspace users. In fact,
Coflight Cloud Services will re-motely provide:
4D-trajectory
prediction, a trajectory always close to the actual behavior of the aircraft Vertical
profile management using all the Requested Flight Level (RFL) as filed in the
initial flight plan Modification of routes Monitoring
alerts for flight data discrepancies Interoperability functions
Datalink capabilities Gate-to-gate eFDP Flexible use of airspace
Coflight
Cloud Services will provide a remote service delivery instead of deploying a
new physical system component. This is the beginning of a new business model in
ANS.
Coflight Cloud Services concept development will enable ANSPs to share
investments and reduce operating costs.
For
further info, please contact:
claudio.cannavicci@enav.it
ERATO is a set of modern tools for air traffic controllers developed by Enav and DSNA (French Air Navigation Service Provider) which integrate innovative functions providing helpful assistance in conflict resolution in an electronic environment. ERATO is much more than simply a Mid-Term Conflict Detection (MTCD) tool: the system also includes parameter simulation (“What if” concept) and monitoring alert (MONA) tools. Real time simulations in Italy and live trials in France have demonstrated significant benefits that ERATO can bring in terms of safety and capacity. Enav has planned a progressive implementation of ERATO starting from 2018 in all 4 Italian ACCs. ERATO will be gradually integrated in Enav and DSNA’s new generation ATM system, the 4-Flight programme.
ERATO is designed to support controller decision-making helping them to work in a safer and more efficient way"
For
further info, please contact:
Claudio
Cannavicci
claudio.cannavicci@enav.it
Enav looks at satellite technology as one of the main enabler in the future CNS/ATM scenario, where the capability of a system to support continental/global services, joining and harmonizing the efforts of multiple stakeholders, will be a key factor for suc-cess. Enav has joined satellite initiatives in the CNS field since nineties by providing expertise and financial contribution in the EGNOS Programme (i.e. the first European step in satellite navigation)
In 2016 Enav joined the ESA “Iris” initiative as contributor to INMARSAT in Iris “Service Evolution Study” IRIS is the ESA Programme aiming to develop a satellite-based air–ground communication system for Air Traffic Management (ATM). The Iris Service starts with Iris IOC to support Controller Pilot Data Link Communications (CPDLC) and Initial 4D; it will act as a complement to VDL M2 over ATN. In the longer term the vision is that the Iris service will evolve to Iris FOC to support Full 4D and operate in a “multi-link” environment with future terrestrial data-links, providing a higher performance and highly secure service. By 2020, Iris IOC is expected to support in Europe CPDLC and initial 4D flight path control, with the exchange of EPPs (Extended Projected Profiles) coming directly from avionic systems. The core characteristic of i4D is making sure that trajectories are always synchronised between air and ground, which will enable more efficient management of traffic and certainty of flight profiles.
Since 2013, becoming a member of Aireon LLC, Enav has enlarged its
involvement in satellite technologies to include the sur-veillance domain
through satellite ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast).
AIREON is a Company to design, finance,
procure, deploy and operate a global, satellite-based aviation monitoring
service utilizing ADS-B technology.
ENAV participate in AIREON with 12,5% of
shares, other shareholders being NAVCANADA, Iridium Com-munications Inc., IAA
and Naviair.
Aireon will take benefit of the world’s furthest reaching network,
being Aireon special ADS-B receiver payloads to be hosted on each of the
Iridium Next 66 LEO operational satellites constellation. In 2017 the first 40
satellites of the Iridium next constellation have been successfully launched;
last launches will complete the constellation in summer 2018 allowing Aireon to
deliver the first-ever space-based global aviation surveillance system.
Thanks to Aireon service, the ADS-B message transmitted by the aircraft
and including information on its position as accurate as calculated onboard
could reach an ANSPs wherever the aircraft is flying on the globe. Aireon data
are expected to have a strong positive impact on air operations both by
allowing the most efficient surveillance in areas not covered by radar and by
giving all the benefits by a further diversified (satellite vs ground) surveillance
layer in areas already radar-covered. Moreover, the possibility of knowing real
time aircraft position in every airspace around the world will create new
opportunities for future air traffic management optimisation and value-added
services.ENAV participation in Aireon is also intended to bring to the
development of this Satellite ADS-B service all the experience and skills of
one of the major European ANSP as well as to develop synergies with other
international initiatives. In this frame ENAV, that hosts in its Ciampino
Technical Centre one of the first delivered Aireon Service Delivery Point
(SDP), is also contributing to Aireon ADS-B data validation and Aireon EASA
certification.
ENAV, in cooperation with the
Italian CAA (ENAC), has developed an approach toward implementation of a
national instance of UTM, scalable and also exportable to other countries,
based on a business model that is financially sustainable, which will ensure a
high level of safety for UAS and for the existing manned aviation system,
boosting the growth of the UAS market while also contributing to enhance
privacy, data protection and security.
The early implementation of
UTM in Italy: anticipates the full compliance
with the draft regulatory material developed by EASA for stakeholders
consultation;
complies with the vision and
approach settled by SESAR Joint Undertaking U-Space Blueprint Draft following
Warsaw Declaration; matches with the high-level
architectural layout designed by GUTMA.
The goal of the initiative is
to unlock the enormous benefits for economy, safety and environment expected by
services based on UAS BVLOS operations in several civil and industrial fields
and human activities, while providing, through key and basic UTM services, i.e.
Registration, e-identification and Geofencing, the adequate answers to
diverging public interests and concerns including homeland security and
defense.
Registration of
Owners/Operators and UAS can be performed already through a web portal,
www.d-flight.it, which is published and operated by Enav on behalf of ENAC,
that ensures oversight.
The stepwise implementation of the Italian UTM, will allow conscious and
gradual removal of rules limiting UAS exploitation, sustaining growth of the
UAS services market.
The Single European Sky
regulatory framework is now experiencing the full implementation of Functional
Airspace Blocks (FABs) by the EU Member States.
A Functional Airspace Block is a portion of
airspace where air traffic is managed regardless of existing national
boundaries, taking into account op-erational and technical requirements and
considering Airspace Users’ needs at the centre of service provision. Within an
established FAB, Air Traffic Management is harmonised among the Partners,
limiting costs, improving operational ca-pacity, reducing the environmental
impact of operations, while Safety levels are preserved, if not increased.
The BLUE MED FAB project -
coordinated by Enav - is the European central/south-eastern FAB initiative. It
represents the natu-ral European gate dedicated to air traffic flows coming
from Africa and the Middle-East, namely among the regions with the prospective
fast growing trend in the next future.
The BLUE MED Partners are the
EU Member States of Cyprus, Greece, Italy and Malta. In 2013, the Civil
Aviation Authority of Israel signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the BLUE
MED FAB for its involvement in the initiative.
The BLUE MED FAB is open to
the participation of other States which are interested in cooperating in a wide
range of activi-ties, allowing them to reap the full benefits of the
integration of operational and technical solutions developed in the
Mediterra-nean area.
Today – further its
Feasibility Study (2007-2008) and Definition Phase (2009-2012) which
investigated the Project validity and assessed technical, regulatory,
Safety/Security and expected economic results – the BLUE MED FAB is in its
Implementation Phase, a coordinated deployment initiative in which operational
and technical improvements are being delivered, also through the cooperation
with the European SESAR Deployment initiative and the ATM Industry.
The Implementation Phase is
progressively determining a paramount shift in the organisation of Air
Navigation Services over the Mediterranean basin, bringing competition
advantages in the area and benefits for the Airspace Users in terms of enhanced
efficiency of services, reduced delays and costs, with lower environmental
impact, always under the umbrella of improved Safe-ty levels.
All these benefits are also
being coordinated with other FABs, through an inter-FAB cooperation platform
which is aimed at sharing best practices provided by FABs.
In line with the SES esprit, the coming years will see the fulfillment
of FAB benefits for the Mediterranean Area, not only lim-ited to the airspaces
of the BLUE MED Member States, but also extended to neighbouring non-EU
Countries, willing to share and integrate their experiences and practices in
the Air Traffic Management.