Airservices Australia

Australian airspace

Airservices Australia

INTEGRATION OF PBN PROCEDURES

INTO AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT

– RNP (AR) Terminal Area Procedures

Peter Curran

ICAO Asia-Pacific PBN Implementation Seminar,

Hong Kong, 1-2 February 2010

• Australian Context

• Australia RNP-AR Terminal Area Program

• ATM Opportunities

• ATM Challenges

• Questions

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OVERVIEW

• Airservices Australia owned by the Australian Government

•Provides safe and environmentally sound air traffic management and related airside services

• Funded by aviation industry charges

• ATS is regulated by Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA)

• Procedure Design regulated by CASA

AUSTRALIAN CONTEXT

AUSTRALIAN CONTEXT

Airspace managed by Airservices Australia

• Successful trial CASA, Qantas, Naverus and AA

• From Trial to a National RNP Network

» Airservices will provide

RNP-AR Terminal Area

Procedures at 8 major

aerodromes

» Procedures will be

designed to RNP 0.3

• Airlines must gain CASA authorisation to participate

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AUSTRALIAN RNP PROGRAM

• RNP-AR Terminal Area Procedures to be provided for 4 “performance families”

» Regional

» Medium

» 2-Engine Heavy

» 4-Engine Heavy

• 2&4-Engine Heavy will be deployed at Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne

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AUSTRALIAN RNP PROGRAM

CASA

Naverus IncAirservices

Australia

Qantas

RNP-AR Trial

Airservices

Australia

RNP-AR National Network

Qantas

Jetstar

Virgin

Blue

NaverusProcedureDesigner

Other

airlines

CASA

Implementation of Terminal Area RNP ProjectAUSTRALIAN RNP PROGRAM

• ICAO ATM Performance Expectations:

� Access and Equity

� Capacity

� Cost Effectiveness

� Efficiency

� Environment

� Flexibility

� Global Interoperability

� Participation

� Predictability

� Safety

� Security.

ATM OPPORTUNITIES

• Access and Equity

� Improved airspace

design

� Enhanced vertical and

longitudinal

performance

• Capacity

� Airspace design using

Reduced tolerances

� Potential for improved

ATFM

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ATM OPPORTUNITIES

• Cost Effectiveness

� Longer-term

opportunity to reduce

ground based

infrastructure

� Value provided to the

equipped - ROI

• Efficiency

� Enabler for CDA

� Potential minima

advantage

� Potential track mile

reduction

� Potential payload

increase

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ATM OPPORTUNITIES

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RNPNon-RNP

• Environment

� Reduced Green House

Gas emissions thru

track mile reduction

and CDA

� Potential noise

reduction thru thrust

idle approach

� Consideration in noise

versus emissions

discussion

• Flexibility

� Multi-path tracking can

be facilitated with

improved ATFM

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ATM OPPORTUNITIES

• Global Interoperability

� Opportunity to standardise our approach of PBN (RNP)

• Participation

� Providing value to the equipped encourages uptake without an exclusionary approach

• Predictability

� Improved vertical, lateral and longitudinal performance – better ATFM

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ATM OPPORTUNITIES

• Safety

� Non-normal operations

procedure

� Improved navigation

performance

� Reduced trajectory

modification

• Security

� Increased navigational

accuracy facilitates

civil-military situational

awareness

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ATM OPPORTUNITIES

• Leveraging the opportunities is often the greatest challenge

• Specific Challenges include:

�Noise versus Emissions�Changes to ATC Practices�Integration of legacy and RNP airframes

ATM CHALLENGES

Questions & Discussion