Alenia Aermacchi in the Single European Sky ATM Research (SESAR): the aircraft manufacturer challenges

Ermanno Girardelli

SESAR Program Manager – Alenia Aermacchi

Turin, October 23rd, 2013

The future Single European Sky

Single European Sky � initiative for the

modernization of the

European airspace

Rationale

• Fragmentation of the airspace

• Absence of common standards

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• Absence of common standards

• Obsolescence of current ATM infrastructure/assets

• Air Traffic Increase forecast

Features of the new system

• Ability to accommodate more air traffic flow

• Guarantee an adequate environmental sustainability

• Increase the safety

• Reduce the air traffic management costs

Fragmentation of the airspace

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The Airspace: a resource for different users

Different users with

different needs in terms of

operations and

systems/technologies.

Airliners

Business Aviation

General Aviation

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The challenge is to

accomodate the aircraft

diversity with a limited

impact to the overall

system performance.

General Aviation

Military Aircraft

Unmanned Aircraft

Rotorcraft

The aircraft diversity is expected to increase in the future years (unmanned).

Design Goals for scalable future capability:

� Capacity: handle 3 times traffic

Derived from needs of society and Derived from needs of society and

airspace usersairspace users

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Capacity: handle 3 times traffic

� Safety: factor 10

� Environment: - 10% effects per flight

� Costs to airspace users: - 50%Safety

Security

Environmental

Sustainability

Cost Effectiveness

Capacity

EfficiencyFlexibility

Predictability

Access and Equity

Participation

Interoperability

SESAR is

the technological arm of SES

Definition Phase (2004-2007) has

defined the ATM target concept

including the different operational

and technological steps to be taken,

the priorities in the modernisation

programmes and the operational

implementation plans.

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The SESAR approach

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Development Phase (2007-2016), will: develop and validate new ATM operational

concepts and procedures in accordance with the ATM master plan; develop and

validate new equipment, systems and/or standards ensuring a convergence towards

a single ATM system in Europe and globally interoperable.

The Deployment Phase (2014-2020) will consist in the large scale production and

implementation of the new European ATM infrastructure at high performance

ongoing

In preparation

The SESAR JU Stakeholders

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• Alenia Aermacchi is participating to the SESAR development phase since its

beginning.

• Alenia is active in several areas of the project but the focus in on the integration of

the SESAR solutions on regional and military aircraft.

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Civil projects:

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Civil projects:

• Airborne Initial 4D trajectory

management

• Airborne Separation Assistance

System

• Airport Surface Activities

• Advanced Navigation Systems

• Flexible Communication Avionics

ADS-B

ADS-B IN/OUT for Military

project

Capability to transmit/ receive

a/c data for airborne separation

ADS-B

Mission and Business Trajectory Management

interoperability project

Capability to share navigation data for business and

mission trajectory interoperability

4D

4D

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Ground gateway

& ATM

infrastructure

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Business Trajectory Mission Trajectory

Military datalink accommodation

project

Capability to connect military

aircraft in ATM Network allowing

to share with civil aircraft

Trajectory data

Civil-Military Data Link

Interoperability project

Capability to connect military

aircraft in ATM Network through a

ground gateway able to share with

civil aircraft only the no sensible

data

Civil datalink

a/c data for airborne separation

assurance scope

4D

(ground part)

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The future

� In the future years, UAS will contribute to increase the aircraft diversity.

� No regulations exist for UAS � they can only fly in a segregated airspace.

� Regulations

� Operational Aspects

� Technological gaps

Complementary Measures

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� Complementary Measures

� RPAS are a great opportunity for Europe, the European Commission is

highly committed on the matter, i.e. to allow RPAS to fly in a non-

segregated airspace.

� In the “SESAR extension” the RPAS insertion will be a topic where the

European Industry will have to focus their effort.

� The Single European Sky is a great opportunity for the community in Europe

� The EC recognizes the important success of SESAR in terms of results and is

pushing for an extension of the programme to achieve the ATM master plan

targets

� The challenge to cope with the airspace users diversity inside of the SES is

Conclusions

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� The challenge to cope with the airspace users diversity inside of the SES is

perceived as a crucial factor for SES success

� More effort is needed to explore technologies and solutions for military,

general and rotorcraft aviations, within and outside of SJU (e.g. EDA)

� Adequate effort need to be allocated inside and outside SESAR extension

(e.g. EDA, ESA, …) to assure that the necessary activities for RPAS insertion

into ATM out of segregated airspace will be pursued

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