{"id":210,"date":"2024-09-25T09:38:42","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T08:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.dblue.it\/ifav3\/?p=210"},"modified":"2024-09-25T09:38:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T08:38:42","slug":"making-controller-rostering-more-flexible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.dblue.it\/ifav3\/2024\/09\/25\/making-controller-rostering-more-flexible\/","title":{"rendered":"Making controller rostering more flexible"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 of aviation. The consortium will be guided by\u00a0DLR \u2013 German Aerospace Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nowadays airspace is organised in sectors and each sector has its own specificities. To be allowed to work on a specific one, the ATCO must hold a license, be trained to deal with the local specificities and obtain a certification with a rating and a unit endorsement. Once these requirements are fulfilled, the ATCO is finally allowed to manage traffic in that specific sector, with the obligation on a regular basis to complete a refresher training and a minimum number of working hours per sector. Consequently, controllers are competent in a limited number of sectors. Due to a long and complex procedure and increasing demand for ATCOs capable of working in several sectors, the industry is facing a staffing challenge<\/p>\n

\u00abWith IFAV3, we start a new episode of research on new strategies to make the ATCO rostering more flexible, by enabling them to hold and maintain more endorsements on specific sectors \/ sector groups than today. New tools and processes will not only help to improve cost efficiency of air traffic control, but they will also contribute to a compensation of possible staff shortages\u00bb declares Michael Finke, Project Coordinator from DLR – German Aerospace Center \u00abI\u2019m looking forward to learn more and design the next generation air traffic control procedures together\u00bb.
\nBuilding on from the previous SESAR research (e.g. PJ.33-01a and PJ.10-73 IFAV), IFAV3 aims to find and validate solutions to:
\n1. Simplify the procedure for ATCO validation through the investigation of ready-to-use procedures, advanced tools, automation, as well as training, rating maintenance and regulatory changes, while creating a standard and methodological framework that will ensure the increase of safety;
\n2. Use and further validate solutions from previous projects applying them into RTCs.
\nWhat are the advantages of IFAV3\u2019s solutions?<\/p>\n