IFAV3
Increased Flexibility of ATCO Validations
Objectives
Growing traffic numbers, environmental aspects and cost effectiveness issues create a huge demand on the Air Traffic Management. One key resource is the availability of air traffic controllers, nevertheless, due to current regulations, their deployment is restricted to a specific airspace or unit based on unit endorsements.
The IFAV3 project aims at enabling a more flexible deployment of ATCOs to sectors with various flexible endorsement strategies, procedural means and technical enablers.
Timeline
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News & Events:
IFAV3/EASA workshop in Madrid: Advancing Flexibility in Air Traffic Services
The IFAV3 project is pleased to announce its upcoming workshop on 27 November 2025, hosted at ENAIRE/CRIDA A.I.E. premises in Madrid. IFAV3 is a SESAR Joint Undertaking project that aims to increase flexibility in the provision of European Air Traffic Services (ATS). As part of this initiative, the IFAV3 consortium has been working closely with EASA to explore the regulatory and standardisation aspects that would enable the deployment of flexible [...]
IFAV3 – Smart Sector Grouping (SSG) first validation
The IFAV3 project (Increased Flexibility of ATCO Validation) aims to enable more flexible deployment of ATCOs to sectors by using different strategies, procedural means and technical enablers. From 8 to 9 May 2025, at the 'DATS Workshop on Digital Air Traffic Services: Workload and Safety Assessment' in Norrköping, the initial outcomes of the NLR - Netherlands Aerospace Centre - Linköping University - LFV validation exercise on Smart Sector Grouping, which took place [...]