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:
Making ATCO deployment flexible, smart and efficient: new IFAV3 project results
IFAV3 is a 3-year SESAR project currently approaching the end of its validation phase and already gathering encouraging feedback from the ongoing activities. The overall scope of the project is to enable a more flexible deployment of air traffic controllers to sectors through various flexible endorsement strategies, procedural means and technical enablers. During the first two weeks of November, the last validation exercise of the IFAV3 project took place in [...]
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 [...]