European Commission Stand – CoSpace and Package I

Representatives from the Eurocontrol Experimental Centre ran scenarios from the CoSpace project as an example application of airborne spacing (see leaflet and project website), and presented the Eurocontrol/European Commission Joint Coordination Board's Package I of surveillance applications enabled by ADS-B (see presentation and handout).

The CoSpace demonstration showed synchronised views (see figures below) from a Barco air traffic controller working position and from the EEC's Airbus A320 cockpit simulator while aircraft were asked to perform airborne spacing in a high density flow descending towards Paris from the south. The radio dialogue between air and ground could be heard over the audio system.

Barco controller display showing a ‘train’ of aircraft performing airborne spacing in cruise then descent to Paris (merge point INKAK, top left)

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Cockpit display of traffic information showing ownship AZA324 merging to be 8NM behind target ANA118 at waypoint INKAK

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Other projects presented on the European Commission stand also participated in by the EEC were: INTENT, MA-AFAS, and Mediterranean Free Flight.

Eurocontrol Stand – Collaborative ATFM Interface for Airlines (CAIA)

Integrated into a realistic standalone Air Traffic Flow Management (ATFM) simulation environment, the CAIA prototype, developed at the Eurocontrol Experimental Centre within the Network Capacity & Demand management (NCD) Business Area, demonstrates the capabilities of future generations of CFMU (Central Flow Management Unit) collaborative interface dedicated to airline operators. Moreover, the support for route planning optimisation given by the tool can be seen as a short-term step toward the implementation of an ATFM 4D route negotiation concept.

4D ATFM restrictions map

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What-if re-routing function

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Full description of CAIA