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:
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, [...]
Collaborating to increase flexibility of controller validations
Original content from the NATS website, by Tama Lwambula, Senior Research Analyst. Read the article in their website here. The IFAV project intends to bring in tools for controllers to reduce the sector-specific knowledge currently needed for the licences, aiming to allow controllers to work more flexibly over a wider area. As part of this goal, we are also exploring whether increasing automation in the systems the controllers [...]