Weekly Review #193 - ICAO Council achieve a major milestone

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First up, there's exciting news from SESAR partners who have successfully demonstrated the effectiveness of a system using plate lines. These parallel plates are arranged one after another to reduce wake vortices at large airports. Experts gathered at Vienna Airport to present the results of testing these plate lines, revealing that wake vortex lifetime in ground proximity can be reduced by up to 37%.

 

Next, we have news about a major milestone achieved by the ICAO Council. Their adoption of new dual-frequency multi-constellation standards is an important development towards improving the safety, efficiency and sustainability of international air transport. In the future, these new standards will provide international aviation with access to an extensive global infrastructure and over 50 new GNSS satellites.

 

In other news, EASA is looking forward with its ‘Proposal for a Roadmap on Higher Airspace Operations (HAO)’. This roadmap explores the challenges of future operations in the airspace above FL550 and summarises the work undertaken by EASA's task force team in the last two years to ensure a uniform approach to safety, security and sustainability of air transport in the EU. It also recommends a number of actions to allow the first higher airspace operations while designing the future regulatory framework.

 

And finally, we have a special episode of our podcast, Radar Contact. In it, we answer the question we've asked a lot of our guests over the last few years: how does FoxATM see the evolution of ATM in 5 and 50 years?

 

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  • SESAR 3 programme: new funding for 12 Leonardo research projects - As part of the new SESAR 3 research and innovation programme for the digitalisation of European skies, Leonardo was awarded 10 projects out of the 48 selected, for a total investment of EUR 350 million by the aeronautics industry and the European Union, through the Horizon Europe funding programme
  • Serving safety and capacity on a plate - SESAR JU - SESAR partners have successfully demonstrated the effectiveness of a system using plate lines – parallel plates arranged one after another - to reduce wake vortices at large airports. Experts from Europe and beyond gathered in February for thee SESAR2020 VLD3 Wave-2 SORT visitor day for presented the results of testing plate lines, a system offering important safety and capacity benefits for large airports.
  • Roadmap on Higher Airspace Operations (HAO) proposed by EASA - EASA has published a ‘Proposal for a Roadmap on Higher Airspace Operations (HAO)’ exploring the challenges of future operations in the airspace above FL550.
  • GNSS milestone achieved as ICAO Council adopts new dual-frequency multi-constellation standards - The ICAO Council achieved a major milestone this week in the global standardization and roll-out of new dual-frequency multi-constellation capabilities for international aviation’s Global Navigation Satellite System.
  • Austria at the forefront of synergy building in SESAR - In 2022, Austrian stakeholders across the aviation value chain joined forces to establish a networking initiative, the aim of which is to facilitate stronger synergies between European and national programmes addressing air traffic management modernisation. In this article, we hear from three leading representative in this innovative Austrian initiative.

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