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50th ICASC meeting minutesRome, Italy
October 9th - 11th, 2018
ICASC Members PresentJoseph Doubleday, Chairman [email protected] Rocca, Vice Chairman [email protected] Brady [email protected] Goedicke [email protected] Madsen [email protected] Maracich [email protected] Spanner [email protected] Wede [email protected] Musmann [email protected] Bashkirov [email protected] Rascanin [email protected] Jacolot [email protected] Buffon [email protected] Bjelkaroey [email protected] van Stratten [email protected] Egon Koopmann [email protected] Ferencz [email protected] Tong (Tony) [email protected] Malescot [email protected]
ICASC members absentKim Ki Hyoun [email protected] Powell [email protected] DiBenedetto [email protected] Thirkettle [email protected]
Absent Executive SecretariatRick Wild [email protected]
GuestsMaurizio Paggetti (ENAV Chief Operating Officer)William Selebogo (absent) [email protected] Rizzo Filippelli [email protected] Montozzi [email protected] Zimmerman (IFPP Chairman)
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1. Opening remarks Joe Doubleday
2. Member Updates
Sileno:
ENAV is doing a lot of work abroad these days. We are also considering equipment for Flight Validation. Our regulator says that no position reference system is required, as we should only check capability of total system. ENAV think reference system is required, but the problem is that this is not mentioned in Doc 9906. There is actually no explicit equipment requirement mentioned in this document.
Just a reminder to everyone: On April 6 and 7 2019 there is a week roll over with the GPS Calendar. This is a general system limitation. Last time this happened, it created problems for a lot of receivers, so it is our advice that you should double-check your receivers.
Joe:
We at AMI Aviation Services have had a great 6 months and have had a number of significant accomplishments. In June we completed an STC installing dual Garmin GTN-725’s along with a Garmin ADS-B solution for DC-9-30 series aircraft. This STC includes GTX-3000 transponders with positioning provided by the GTN-725’s. Also included was a GDL-88 for ADS-B in, a GDL-69 for XM weather, GSR-56 for talk and text. This solution provides the latest technology in the cockpit and enables coupled LPV approaches. Other completed projects include installation of GoGo’s ATG-8000 on three B-737-400 providing high speed internet access throughout the cabin. Between April and June we supported a Dutch Company and Rockwell Collins with the installation kit for Collins Fusion for a Beech 200 aircraft. This was a prototype kit for the completion of an EASA STC. Our PMA shop has produced a number of Garmin G-1000, G-5000 and G-950 installation kits. These kits provide the wiring harnesses and structural components required for these installations. We are currently performing the modification of a Beech 1900D with our G-950 STC, updating the cockpit to the latest Garmin glass cockpit and includes our latest update providing autopilot roll steering. This project is scheduled for completion in early November.
Frank:
Aerodata is still very busy with various projects.
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This is Aerodata’s status update since last ICASC meeting in Monterey:
Completed projects:
- Upgrade of the flight inspection system in Spain (AENA) to include upgrade of the aircraft and the FIS.
Aircraft: Upgrade of autopilotFIS: New computers, new software, new GNSS receivers.
- Various “Flight Validation Training courses” for different AeroFIS customers.- Various “FIS Operator Training Courses” - Major upgrade of the flight inspection system for CAA Sudan.
(The previous system was delivered in 1998)
Ongoing projects:
- Project for delivery of two factory new Flight Inspection Aircraft each equipped with a new flight inspection system for Air Navigation Services of the Czech Republic. The project includes 5 years warranty and maintenance of the two aircraft as well as CAMO. Further, 20 years maintenance for the flight inspection systems are included in this contract.The both aircraft are equipped with ProLineFusion avionic. Full autopilot coupling to the AFIS flight guidance has been developed.
- Project with the aircraft manufacturer PZL for the delivery of two flight inspection systems for Polish Air Force. The first system is currently being installed in PZL M28 aircraft.
- Project for the delivery of the third flight inspection system with aircraft installation in a Beechcraft King Air 350 for AeroThai, Thailand. The project is almost finished, the aircraft is ready for ferry to end customer.
Darko:
Due to organizational changes and retirement, SMATSA have faced lack of resources and found it challenging to maintain current level of activities. However, our priority is to protect basic customers and we have great expectations for the future. We are still looking for additional work in foreign countries.
Mike S:
NATS continues to be involved with GBAS, specifically taking the Chairperson role for developing Eurocae ED114B MOPS for GAST-D ground stations. During the summer, NATS delivered a Feasibility and Options report that covered a potential trial at Stansted Airport, although the report was actually written for a whole UK context. To gain the benefit of GBAS,
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some airspace changes would be required; however, this is time-consuming and as expensive as the GBAS installation. NATS continues to work on cost-benefit analysis of implementation of GBAS in such cases. Personally, I went back to Flight Inspection for a month, where I acted as a Flight Inspector for 4 weeks on behalf of AeroPearl, but operating in Vietnam. More flight inspection related activities continue as the contract manager in the UK for buying in the service to NATS and also investigating a specific issue at London City, which I intend to bring to the attention of ICASC through the Operational and Technical WGs.
Ivan: Many interesting projects are ongoing in EASA these days. My work involves certification and oversight. EUROCONTROL is also working on approvals. Involved in SBAS projects and versions of EGNOS. Have seen some examples of multilateration failures. There are interesting project on ADSB. Flight Validation certification is planned to be issued in 2020. No data houses certified so far, but this will come. Scope of certification by EASA increasing, several types of certification. We have for a long time been certifying organizations doing design, production and manufacturing. Activities that will be regulated and what can stay outside regulations will be further clarified. ATM must be certified.
Egon:
DFS VOR replacement programmeIn Germany 31 DVOR- Systems and 23 DME-Systems at 34 locations will reach the end of their life-cycle until end of 2024. Actual at 13 different locations the systems will be replaced in a first phase until end of 2020. The second phase will start in 2020 with replacements of app. again 13 locations.The contract for the replacement of the 23 DME Systems has been signed with SELEX ES in 2017. The common procurement of DFS together with LVNL of the Netherlands for the planned replacement of 22 DVOR systems has been signed with SELEX ES as well. The Project is currently ongoing, the first DVOR systems have already been installed.
DFS ILS replacement programmeDFS has initiated a replacement programme for all ILS currently in operation (at 16 international airport with 46 ILS systems where 12 ILS are CAT I and 33 ILS are CAT II/III). The contract with Thales has been signed in 2017, the Project is currently ongoing as planned and first systems have been replaced already and are operational again.
Flight validationFlight validation in Germany is currently increasing. DFS is planning an airspace restructuring programme starting in 2019 where up to 2500 new procedures need to be validated. The complexity and the volume of this programme will require additional resources for flight
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validation. FCS has already started training of two new Pilots in order to have sufficient resources until end of 2019.
SBAS procedures based on EGNOS to replace ILS CAT IProcedures have been designed for all regional airports in Germany, but there is an increasing use also on international airports.
GermanyAirports 48 (28 with LPV)LPV Procedures 37LPV-200 Procedures 12APV baro Procedures (EGNOS enabled) 54Instrumental runway ends 130Percentage 36 %
EuropeInstrumental runway ends with LPV procedures published (Airports) 430Total of instrumental runway ends in Europe 1259- LPV Procedures, - LPV-200 Procedures, - APV baro Procedures (EGNOS enabled)Percentage of instrumental runway ends 34 %
Measurement of signal in space with UASSignals of ILS glide path are verified periodically with flight inspection. Inbetween additional tests are performed from the ground for early indication of drifts etc. Equipment carried on a pneumatic driven telescope-lift pole is commonly used for monitoring glide path signals from the ground. The use of this equipment is constrained with respect to height of the lift pole, respective setup-time, environmental conditions like weather, etc.
DFS is continuing its Project together with FCS Flight Calibration Services GmbH to replace the lift pole to overcome the limitations mentioned above. The idea is to replace the lift pole by an UAS with dual band measurement equipment including antenna, GNSS, data link and storage facilities. Additionally enhancement of measurement results and cost savings shall be achieved. Partners in this project are Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt PTB (German national test authority), Flight Calibration Services (FCS) and DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH.
Tests for proof of concept have been performed already in 2017 (comparison of measurements with UAS and lift pole) at the military airport site Wunsdorf (close to Hannover). FCS has launched in a joint-development effort with LS telcom’s Colibrex a NavAidDrone, a drone-based system for navigational aid (NAVAID) inspections. The NavAidDrone is used for field measurements required for commissioning and regular maintenance of Instrument Landing Systems (ILS). It will support air navigation service providers, NAVAID system manufacturers, and CNS (Communication, Navigation, Surveillance) installation and maintenance service engineers. The system can also perform VOR and GBAS measurements with additional software
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included. The NavAidDrone was successfully presented at the ATM trade show in Madrid this year.
Current business scenarios of FCS Flight Calibration Services expect a severe reduction of ILS and VOR flight inspection using drones from 2023/2026 onwards.
Flight Calibration System (FCS)Replacement of one aircraft (in operation since 2006)- Beechcraft Super King Air 350- New Avionic (Rockwell Collins Fusion) with two integrated Flight Management
Services (FMS) and a Cockpit-Camera system- FIS from Aerodata already ordered
Aircraft will be finalized mid of November 2018, then the aircraft will be delivered to Braunschweig and AeroData will start installation of the FIS.
Tom:
In the past 6 month TransPolar continued to be busy in the field of Flight Validation: in May 2018, a very interesting Flight Validation project was concluded at Seletar Airport, Singapore, in cooperation with Aeropearl of Australia. Interesting in so far, as Singapore does feature some challenging airspace and obstacle constraints, which make Instrument Procedure Design, and the Flight Validation of it, a considerable task. In September, TransPolar gave another Flight Validation Pilot Training Course to PANSA, the Polish Air Navigation Service Provider. The novum of this course was the fact that PANSA seconded the chief of their procedure design office to this course, which made for a very interesting and valuable exchange of knowledge and experience. In May, together with Fabrizio Maracich, I attended the second IFP Conference, this time in Barcelona, which proved to be extremely productive in exchanging ideas, knowledge and experiences between the Instrument Procedure Design and Flight Validation community. In the months following the IFIS in Monterey, I was following up on one issue that manifested itself over the course of the Panel Discussion on Flight Validation that we had on the IFIS: it transpired that at least Jeppesen, as one of the leading Data Houses in our field, seemed to duplicate the coding effort for the Pre-Production Database and the ensuing production database later on after the Flight Validation, with different teams effectively doing the coding effectively twice, which would render the concept of Flight Validation of new procedures somewhat useless, as the idea behind the concept was that databases not to be touched again was the coding and the verification of the coding via the flight validation was accomplished.After some exhaustive discussions with Jeppesen, I finally received confirmation from Jeppesen in writing that they have changed their internal processes in a way that henceforth a Pre-Production Database, once validated and all required corrections being applied, will not be coded
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again by another team, but to remain untouched for the regular production cycle, except some technical information pertaining to customer ID, etc, in the header of the database. With these changes in effect, the original idea of the verification of the Procedue Design – to – Database Integrity is restored again.
Fabrizio:
Activity within the ICAO IFPP has been intense. Many open items have been finalized and approved for publication, among other the criteria for transitioning from curved intermediate segments to vertically guided final approach segments, charting requirements, helicopter PinS requirements. Open items including the maintenance of the DOC 9906 series are carried forward in the next two years cycle. They are relevant for all the flight validation and procedure design activities, and for training of personnel (procedure designers and validation pilots).
The ICASC member has been appointed Rapporteur of the WG4 (Quality Assurance) for the next two years. This is an interim solution agreed with the chairman of the IFPP due to the unexpected resignation of the previous Rapporteur.
With the impending retirement of one of the ICASC Advisors (Corinne Maussenet, NavCanada) the vacant Advisor role has been taken by Pascal Bilodeau (NavCanada). At present the ICASC member to the IFPP has two Advisors: Pascal, mentioned above, and Pierluigi Parente from the Leonardo Company (Helicopters). This is a purely voluntary job and what they have done so far is commendable.IFPP report will be made available as soon as released.
Coordination with IFPP chairman, Mr. Beat Zimmermann, has been established to evaluate future joint activity between ICASC and the newly formed IFPDAVA, Instrument Flight Procedure Design And Validation Association.
Konstantin report that lots of Flight Validation activities have been performed and that business is increasing in the Russian Federation. There is also more interest for drones.
Sigurd:
At NSM we have finalized the delivery of the last two of the five Citation CJ4 aircrafts to Japanese Civil Aviation Authority (JCAB) as a sub-contractor to Textron and these have been flying for some time already. JCAB is a very good customer of us and we are constantly working with them to expand the functionalities of their systems.
We are still working on the delivery for the 6 Embraer Legacy 500 aircrafts to Brazilian Air Force as a sub-contractor to Embraer, where now the fourth aircraft is being modified by Embraer for the system integration. The Legacy program included cooperation with Embraer and
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Rockwell Collins to modify the avionics of the aircraft to better facilitate procedure validation and ensuring we got all the data we required from the aircraft avionics.
Currently we are in the middle of delivering the 3 Citation Latitude flight inspection aircrafts to Japanese Air Self Defense Force (JASDF). First FAT is this autumn and the first aircraft is in our hangar for the modification. In cooperation with Textron and Garmin we have modified the cockpit avionics to better support the integration with the flight inspection system and adding sensor capability to the Garmin system.
We are also in the middle of the delivery of the two flight inspection systems to Indian Air Force where we are a sub-contractor to the Indian aircraft manufacturer HAL which are producing Dornier 228 aircraft on license. First system will have its FAT this Autumn.
Two of our customers have contracted us for upgrade of their systems where the first, Romanian CAA has purchased a new King Air with Collins Fusion avionics. This aircraft is currently undergoing modification with Beechcraft Berlin and we will install the upgraded flight inspection system this year. ISAVIA, the ANSP in Iceland is also receiving their Mid Life Upgrade early next year where we will provide them the newest computers to allow them to utilize all the latest advancements in our SW.
Finally, we are continuing the work of our next generation flight inspection system UNIFIS 3000-G2 and we are now at a stage where new orders will be based on the new generation of system.
Of general interest we noted that the Norwegian CAA sent out a regulation change hearing early this year where they want to basically double the time between periodic flight inspection based on the opening for this in ICAO DOC 8071.
Franck says no specific update from Safran.
Didier says he will retire by end of October, and leave update to be provided by Florence.
Christo:
The SACAA flight inspection aircraft is now at an age where small problems keep it in maintenance more than is economical to operate. This resulted that the SACAA decided to
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replace the old aircraft. The replacement process is at an advance stage and a short list is presently being compiled. We trust the successful supplier will shortly be announced.
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Onorio:
Good morning everyone, its nice to be in Rome again, and a special thanks to Sileno and Fabrizio for organizing and hosting this meeting and ENAV hospitality. We must remember that in the early days of ICASC ENAV has hosted many of our meetings and also has contributed and supported the success of our committee, again thank you ENAV.
For me has been another busy year with lots of travel worldwide, attending various Conferences of industries that we support. In Flight Inspection we continue to support our older products, and now we are also producing a few more products to fill in our recent orders.
We are also doing a lot of interesting development work with UAV (Drone) in the Airborne Geophysical Exploration. We look forward to a productive week.
Asbjoern:
No specific update from Normarc FIS, business as usual. I can also confirm that the Norwegian CAA have extended the periodicity for all ground facilities according to what they suggested in their hearing process. Valid from 1st of July 2018 as shown below. I think no need for translation.
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Florence:
LPV FI performed in Saint Pierre and Miquelon Island close to Canada (2nd WAAS LPV for France), RFI detected on the spectrum but without impact on navigation.
DSNA FI crew experienced GPS jamming issues in the vicinity of Cyprus late June while travelling to Lebanon for FI, down to 4000 ft. Spectrum analysis records shared with Eurocontrol.
Participation to European WG FLAG for helicopters HEMS PBN procedures implementation in the frame of France projects to develop PINS and LowLevelRoutes to hospitals and VFR airports. France CAA has confirmed requirement for both FI and Flight Validation on both PINS and LLR. FV will be performed by a DGAC IFR helicopter rated pilot. Flight inspection with DTI portable FIS onboard proponent's helicopter.
Larry:
Airfield Technology is finishing production of a new flight inspection system for Thales UK. We were recently awarded a contract to supply a mobile flight inspection system for a European military agency.
Tong (Tony):
China have invested a lot in new airports and navigational infrastructure, which is a continuous process. We have now 260 airports, still increasing with about five new each year.
Today it is a problem that we have only one base in Beijing for our current fleet of 11 flight inspection and 2 business aircrafts. 3 new Citation 560+ with Beijing Sky Aviation FI system will join the fleet early next year and then 8 additional aircrafts during the next 5 years. With 24 aircrafts within 2024, we will have one new base established in Shanghai and at least one more base in the South West region.
There was a symposium about RPAS two weeks ago in China. We have decided to use UAS, but this will be RPAS with wingspan 8-11m and not small drones. UAV develops quickly in China, and a private investment project was signed by CAAC September 27. High accuracy systems with 10 Hz sample rate and improved methods for facility ground corrections will be used.
Flight Inspection Big Data project is in consideration. The purpose is to use experience and statistical methods to increase periodicity.
I am sorry that I could not join last meeting due to visa problems. We also have some questions regarding Flight Inspection issues. We have seen different results in field strength from aircraft
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to aircraft, additional problems with DME and autopilot decoupling. If possible, we would like to discuss this later.
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3. Minutes from last meeting
Minutes from the 49th ICASC meeting were approved after email update and some minor changes. 49th Action items list also approved with a couple of changes.
4. Financial report
Rick is reporting there is no current activity, hence no change from last ICASC meeting. The current ICASC fund balance is $674.78.
5. 21st IFIS
Christo provided a presentation regarding the preliminary preparations for the 21 st IFIS. Greetings from William, who is sorry that he could not get it to this meeting. But he is committed and available to support Christo for the upcoming IFIS. Got a very late approval, 20th of August. 10th of September had a preliminary meeting, and 21st of September first official meeting. What we need to do within the organization was discussed and a timeline for the process forward. The host have identified 3 possible venues: Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban. There is communication with all alternatives. Date have been discussed, and the preferred is late June or early July 2020. Final date and venue will be fixed and confirmed later.
Goal is that within January cost issues will be concluded. Attendance fee might be less than 1000 USD. It is an internal requirement to engage as many African countries as possible.
A static display has not been considering at this point, as it might be only one or two local aircrafts, in addition to a possible FAA aircraft. It has been suggested that the icebreaker party should have a cultural theme. We will try to do all in one hotel if possible. 4 star hotel expected to be about 135 USD/night. Target is 200-250 attendees, but some of us have expectations up to 400. We think this would be beneficial to combine with holiday. There is no official favorite venue at the moment, but it might be noted that Durban is in a subtropical area, good for a big 5 excursion and travel. Christo is the preliminary chairperson.
Christos presentation is attached as Appendix A.
6. 22nd IFIS Plans
NSM/Norway is ready to host 2022.
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7. Discussion of ICASC Logo and Branding
Fabrizio says the new Logo has been agreed already through online voting. Further he suggests it should be presented to the public at the end of IFIS 2020, and used officially from then on. The current logo is based on Example C2, but there is a wish to adjust and align the text slightly to have n=North/Up, e=East, s=South and s=West/Siar as in Gaelic/Irish. This will be communicated with the designer.
The committee voted over taking the new logo into use now, and so was decided. It will take some time to make the changeover and we should be careful not to create and problems for the IFIS.
Regarding future ICASC document structure, Fabrizio suggested that documents like charter should start with Doc 1000 series and that groups of documents are made available for each working group. E.g. 1100 series for Tech WG and so on.
8. Welcome by the ENAV Chief Operating Officer
Maurizio Paggetti greeted us and said it was a pleasure to have us here at the ENAV Convention Center at Ciampino Airport in Rome. He wished us great success with our good work. Joe thanked him for the great hospitality, and assured him that we felt very welcome and that everything was well beyond our expectations.
Amongst all the first class food and coffee breaks provided by ENAV, it was suddenly realized that this was our ICASC meeting no 50. A cake was provided to celebrate the event. The only founding ICASC members present at this occasion was Onorio and Asbjoern. After a quick consideration, this is how the cake looked like:
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9. Tour of ACC Radar ATC Control Room
We received a very well organized and interesting guided tour at the ACC center.
10. IFP Briefing
Beat Zimmermann gave us an enthusiastic presentation about the IFPP activities and shared some thoughts with us about common ground and possibilities for future cooperation. In the discussion that followed it was obvious that how such a cooperation should be would require further clarification, but both parties still have an open mind about doing so.
The presentation is enclosed as Appendix B.
11. IFIS and IFPP conference integration discussion
It was further discussed to include Flight Validation and the IFPC group into the IFIS. IFPC is an own organization with procedure designers that want to share. This group is focused on Procedure Design. The association was founded last week. It is a non profit organization, that will apply for recognition by ICAO. Will have their own conference or do that together with IFIS. Instrument Flight Procedure Conference (IFPC). There are currently no thoughts about sponsorship from this environment. Logistical issues can be managed. Financial issues are not so well clarified at this point.
First symposium could have a session with Procedure Design, then next symposium could be divided between IFIS/IFPC on different days. This needs some time to be further matured.
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Fabrizio raised the possibility of combining these conferences at the previous ICASC meeting. Based on the outcome of this combined IFIS it was decided to pursue a combined meeting. First real event of this type could be IFIS 2020.
12. Technical Working Group (TWG) Summary
Mike S reported from TWG as Mike DB was unable to attend:
TWG reviewed the minutes from the last meeting and concluded that the most important action item was to respond to the request from ICAO to review DOC 8071 Vol II. Additional subjects were considered for discussion if time allowed:· Use of Drones· GBAS flight inspection (although this would also be part of the Vol II review
anyway)· London City issue· Eurocontrol document on DME/DME· Autopilot decoupling issue in China as noted by Tony Mike noted that ICAO NSP intend to try and update Vol II with a short timescale. This would mean that this current ICASC meeting and perhaps the next were the only opportunities to get changes proposed. The group then reviewed work already completed by DSNA who had proposed changes to DOC 8071 Vol II in ICASO NSPJWG3_WP44. This covered the general section and the SBAS section. Due to time limitations, only a review of the general section was completed however this was to a good detail and included much discussion on the points made. A marked up copy of the document has been used to track changes with justifications where necessary. This marked copy will be used to generate an ICASC paper to present the suggested changes to NSP in November. Attachment 3 to Chapter 1 will be circulated for review by Email, as time did not allow for a review of this section at the meeting. Florence and Sigurd offered to work together off-line to review the SBAS chapter and circulated for review by Email. Mike (linear) offered to review the GBAS section and again circulate for review by Email. A WebEx will be set up (by Mike) to discuss the reviews so that they can be captured and used to develop papers for presentation to NSP in November, along with the general section. It was noted that a new section 5 will be written for Vol II- this could be reviewed by ICASC at the next meeting in March. A presentation was given by Mike S on the issue seen at London City. Aircraft are regularly reporting establishiing North of the centerline on runway 09, when approaching using the RNAV approach from the south. The team agreed that the aircraft appeared to be doing as it should (from revewing video of the instrumentation) and that the issue is probably due to the RNAV to ILS transition logic in the FMS. A review of the database in use and how this is encoded was suggested to see if the waypoints between the last RNAV fix and the ILS approach are correctly encoded. Mike will report back at the next meeting.
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The meeting decided to postpone discussion on the other topics considered until the next meeting.
13. Operations and Safety (OPS) Working Group Summary
Tom reported from the OPS WG.
Items covered:
1. Finalization of OPS SARPs2. Reorganization of ICASC Web Site listed Documents
Add 1. :
Final “Final” version of OPS SARPs document agreed; a. slight changes to name to align doc with similar ICASC doc for FIS requirementsb. addition of authors for better traceability
See “ICASC SARPs FI FV_v1.3_11.10.2018 final.doc” for further (distributed to all workgroup members by mail 11.10.18).
Add 2.:
Docs in general under:
Library
Other Material of InterestMaterial produced by ICASC
Under “Material of Interest”:
The Approval of Flight Calibration Organisations by UK CAA
Suggest to remove: pertains to UK only, status unknown (no date on it)
2 other Docs (FRP US FAA): remove, as it is obsolete
Under “Material produced by ICASC”:
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Suggest to change name of tab to “ICASC Documents”; sequence should be reversed (should be on top)
“Recommended Qualification Requirements for Flight Inspection Service Providers”Rev. 0 of 24th April 2014
Suggest to change to: ICASC Technical Requirements for Flight Inspection Service Providers
Add to that on same page:
ICASC Operational Requirements of Flight Inspection & Flight Validation Organizations
Further material found under that page:
FLIGHT INSPECTION ORGANISATIONS SAFETY MANAGEMENT GUIDELINES of 1997
Suggest to remove: obsolete
FLIGHT INSPECTION ORGANIZATIONS BUSINESS PRACTICE AND ASSISTANCE GUIDELINES of May, 2012
Suggest to remove: publishing committee unknown? Obsolete, redundant to the 2 main docs
General recommendations for Web Site Maintenance:- On all docs name of author(s) and most important: Date and Version number!- Introduction of Document registration system ( > Fabrizio)- Maybe to introduce a folder for “historic” documents
14. IFIS Working Group Summary
Sileno reported from IFIS WG.
The group have tried to support Christo the best way possible, and a number of issues and suggestions have been addressed: Call for abstracts about March 2019, deadline early October. All abstracts should be
sent ICASC for review at Christmas time and selection made in January. Paper deadline should be early June. Sponsorship details and floor plan must be defined at an early stage.
A list of possible topics have already been created, and goes like this:
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• Procedure Design and Flight validation• UAV operations and flight inspection applications• PBN/RNAV and GBAS inspection• Flight Inspection Technology• FIS integration/installation/certification• Evolution of Air Navigation Systems• Legacy Navaids• Safety (including Safety Management System and Crew Resource Management) • Standards (Organizational, Operations, Systems) • Training and Certification• RFI• Flight inspection measurement techniques
Invited papers• Update on ICAO Documents (by ICAO rep)
Possible Topics for a Possible Panel Discussion• Discussion on UAVs• Effects of removing VORs from service to modernize airspace
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15. Membership discussion
As Didier is about to retire from his position at DTI by October, this was his last meeting. The committee applauded and thanked him for his efforts.
Nobody have heard from or managed to get in touch with Kim Ki Hyoun for a long time. Last known contact was during Belgrade IFIS in 2016. Members may resign or have their membership terminated for lack of participation. Though we do not have the exact no of absence in writing, we have a common understanding that absence in 4 subsequent meetings would be suitable to apply this rule. Kim have now been absent for 5 subsequent meetings, and a committee vote was made to decide that we accept his resignation.
Dave Powell have announced his resignation so many times now that we have problems to believe that this is what he wants. Last time he came back to chair an IFIS, for which we are very grateful. He is also one of the founding ICASC members, and will be welcome back whenever he choose to do so. Even though the previous meeting might have been his last, it was suggested that we do not consider him to be removed before he have stayed away for 4 subsequent meetings.
At this meeting Peter Thirkettle have stayed away 5 times. Mike S have requested if it at least would be possible that Peter would substitute for him if he were not able to attend, which of course should be no problem. As there is no urgency, we want to leave Peters membership open for now.
Three persons have raised interest for ICASC membership. The Membership Coordinator have contacted them to inform about our benefits and expectation, and requesting further details. After this, there have no response until now. Membership might have not been in accordance with their expectations, or perhaps they have not been ready for the challenge after all.
Then just before start of this meeting, Joe received an application letter and a bio from Floyd A Bradsky from FAA regarding ICASC membership. It was confirmed that he is supported by his organization regarding attendance and participation to all ICASC meetings and IFIS events. For many of us, this seems to be a suitable applicant and an obvious choice for ICASC membership. But since the application could not be distributed before the 9th of October, it was agreed that it was too soon to make a vote during this meeting. As described in the Membership Bylaws, an application will be distributed to all ICASC members two weeks prior to when it should be acted upon. It was agreed that Joe should send an email to all members when this grace period is over, and request a YES or NO to this application.
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16. New Business
Sileno presented an ENAV created Excel work sheet intended for use as an index to easily find document on ICASC web page. This was well received, but it was not made any decision to publish this open for everyone at this stage. The outcome was that we should put this into our members only area to gain experience with this, and leave the discussion of future use to the next meeting. And in the meantime we can play with this and hopefully get more papers available. The worksheet is enclosed as Appendix C.
Asbjoern have as usual updated the Meeting Overview worksheet. A third page has been created with distribution of WG attendees and some additional notes for the actual meeting. If this is found to be useful, a current version of the worksheet could be attached to the minutes for each new meeting. This was used during the meeting, but not presented, and is now enclosed as Appendix D.
17. Next Meeting
A suggestion was made to have the 51st ICASC meeting March 19-21 2019 at Orlando/Sanford, Florida, and this was unanimously decided. Joe will host the meeting, but we should not expect the same level of service as received from ENAV.
Unfortunately, we could not find a date that was suitable for everyone. The result was a -1 solution, meaning we had to accept that one person could not attend. In this case it was Fabrizio, meaning that Tom will have to chair the OPS WG during our next meeting.
18. New Action Items
See the separate 50th ICASC Action Items document.
19. Additional Enclosed Documents
Appendix A: Preliminary plans for 21st IFIS (pdf)Appendix B: IFP Briefing (pdf)Appendix C: IFIS Presentation Index (Excel)Appendix D: Meeting Overview (Excel)
Asbjorn on behalf of RickICASC Executive Secretariat
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