ICAO 9963 PDF

INTRODUCTION

The seventh meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection (CAEP/7) held in February 2007 requested advice from Independent Experts (IEs) on the prospects for reduced aviation fuel burn from technology advances over the medium term (MT) and long term (LT), specifically ten and twenty years from 2010. The CAEP Steering Group provided guidance on the remit for this task: the Review should consider the effects of "major technologies" on fuel burn/efficiency, as well as combinations of improvements from aircraft and engine, including best possible integration. The panel of experts were to focus their analyses only on technologies and not on operations or new types of fuels. Only operational changes required to implement and derive the benefits of fuel burn reduction technologies needed to be considered and interdependencies were to be qualified where quantification was not possible.

The assessment of the reduction in aviation fuel burn from technology advancements over ten and twenty years was to follow a two-step process:

a) An industry-led Fuel Burn Reduction Technology Workshop to be held in early 2009;

b) A formal Fuel Burn Reduction Technology Goals Review, to be held early in the ninth CAEP cycle (CAEP/9) led by the IEs.