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 – 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 [...]
Towards a More Flexible ATM: Join Two Key IFAV3 Validation Events in Madrid
Growing traffic numbers, environmental concerns and cost efficiency issues are creating huge demands on air traffic management of tomorrow. A key resource is the availability of air traffic controllers (ATCOs), but current regulations frame their deployment to specific airspaces according to their unit endorsements. The IFAV3 project (Increased Flexibility of ATCO Validation) addresses this challenge by aiming to enable more flexible deployment of ATCOs to sectors by using different strategies, [...]