EUROCAE ED-254 PDF

SCOPE OF THE DOCUMENT

Concept summary

In order to optimize inbound traffic flows at major hubs, arrival flights will be managed well before the top of descent. The consequence is that metering and sequencing activities need to be shared between several ATS units and will start in the En-Route phase when flights are cruising.

This will allow absorbing tactical delay in line at a much higher altitude than the current holding or radar vectoring within the TMAs, and thus saving fuel and reducing CO2 emissions for Airspace Users.

When an Arrival Manager (AMAN) is available at an airport, its horizon is at present usually limited to the geographical scope of the terminal control centre. It is implicating that the view is not always time symmetrical from the runway and somehow blind at what’s happening further out.

These shortfalls will be overcome by:

• Expanding the planning horizon of AMAN systems up to 200NM in order to include the economical Top of Descent (ToD).

• Providing Upstream ATS units with Arrival Management Information and so allowing cross border (be it system border, ATS unit border, ANSP border, State or Regional organization border) activities.

The provision of Arrival Information from Downstream ATSU to Upstream ATSU is communicated via SWIM for the pre-sequencing of the arrival stream.

The Arrival Information Management Service is derived from SESAR Solution pack - Extended Arrival Management (AMAN) Horizon [1]. Two main recipients for Arrival Sequence information are addressed:

• A stakeholder ATSU controlling a flight to the TMA in view of the AMAN implementation;

• A satellite airport which is a “nearby” airport having a departing flight to the concerned destination airport.