Ongoing real-time simulations
Interface Reims Paris 2013
Interface Reims Paris 2013
March 2012
A two-week real-time simulation will be run at the EUROCONTROL Experimental Centre, Brétigny-sur-Orge, France, from 26 March to 6 April 2012. These exercises will test interface improvements between the airspace of Paris ACC and Reims ACC. The modifications will be applied to Paris ACC's sectors UJ, AR and SU above flight level 345.
The objectives are:
- to reduce delays generated by Paris sector UJ, feeding Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle, Paris-Orly and Paris-Le-Bourget airports;
- to improve the fluidity and efficiency of Reims overflights, more specifically the south-east flow of traffic, inbound from the UK.
Nearly 60 ATCOs from Paris, Reims and Geneva ACCs will participate in the simulation.
Airspace modifications should be implemented in two steps, with a first phase planned for autumn 2012 implementing the new sectorisation in Paris ACC and a second step in spring 2013 involving a sector transfer from Paris ACC to Reims ACC.
Contacts:
Fabien Barthélémy
Jean-Paul Zabka
Southern Norway Airspace Project
December 2011
The airspace of southern Norway has not been subject to major changes in the last 20-30 years. Changes in air traffic however have been great during that period, especially in recent years. AVINOR has established the Southern Norway Airspace Project (SNAP) to address present and future challenges regarding capacity, safety, environment and effectiveness in the ANS provision.
The SNAP airspace consisted of Stavanger ATCC and Bodø ATCC Sectors South and part of Central, with the underlying airspace and airports.
The airspace concerned was adjacent to Oslo AoR where the sister concept of Oslo Advanced Sectorisation and Automation Project (ASAP) was implemented in April 2011.
DANUBE Functional Airspace Block (FAB) simulations
November-December 2011
The EUROCONTROL Experimental Centre hosted a series of real-time simulations for the DANUBE Functional Airspace Block (FAB), which was established by Bulgaria and Romania.
The objective of these simulations was to demonstrate that the proposed changes to the airspace structure and operational procedures within the airspace of this FAB will lead to improved flight efficiency, while maintaining or enhancing safety. It did so by comparing different scenarios and validating the best option in conjunction with the safety assessment for the DANUBE FAB.
Simulation SR567R1 PANAM
30 May - 7 June 2011
As part of a SESAR exercise led by DSNA, a series of prototyping simulations have been conducted at EEC on Point Merge in extended TMA. The objective was to prepare live trials to be conducted early 2012 in Paris ACC.
History
This exercise relied on the work done by a previous joint study with DSNA to investigate the potential applicability, benefits and limitations of Point Merge (a specific P-RNAV procedure with built-in continuous descent ready for deployment in TMA) for ACC arrival sectors.
Simulated environment
N-E and N-W sectors (AP, TE and UK/UZ, TP) feeding Northern runways of Paris CDG ("PANAM") S-W (OY/OT) sector feeding Paris Orly ("MACAO").
Phases
- Design and prototyping simulations (PANAM and MACAO) at EEC on Ops 4 platform (Q1-Q2 2011).
- Training at Paris ACC (Q4 2011).
- Live trials at Paris ACC (Q1 2012).
FABEC Dover Phase II Real-time Simulation
4-15 April 2011
The airspace located in the core of the European continent around the six States: Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Switzerland is one of the busiest and most complex in the world. Most of the large European airports and major civil and military airways are located in this area.
Paris, Reims, NATS UK, MUAC and Belgocontrol were involved in validating a new airspace design over the Belgium territory: a new three-route structure was designed to reduce congestion in between the UK airspace and the Belgocontrol and MUAC airspaces.
