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:
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 [...]
Making controller rostering more flexible
IFAV3 is a new SESAR 3 Joint Undertaking three years project whose main focus is to increase flexibility of air traffic controllers (ATCO) rostering in the upper airspace, and transfer the know-how about flexible ATCO endorsements from SESAR2020 to remote tower centres (RTCs). The project will be made reality thanks to the joint work of a consortium composed of 13 companies from 7 different countries, highly specialized in the field [...]