Airspace World 2024

Philippe Very & Gabriel Jarry present ContrailNET – a new initiative aimed at advancing the aviation sector’s efforts to reduce the climate impact of non-CO₂ aviation emissions. The objective of the project is to stimulate contrail research by sharing research datasets which are essential for building and validating physical and observational models. The data includes images from satellites/ground-based cameras as well as various measurements (in situ/satellites).

As part of the SESAR Walking Tours, Mario Boyero Perez presents the SESAR project IRINA - IFR RPAS Integration into European Airspace, aimed pushing forward the research work on the integration of remote piloted aircraft systems (a specific set of unmanned aircraft, which is remotely operated by a pilot in a control station) into non-segregated airspace.

Olivier Rea talks about EUROCONTROL’s drone activities, in the context of the SESAR programme as well as the support we provide to our Member States especially on airspace risk assessments in the framework of the EASA 2021/664 regulation.

Yves de Wandeler & Charles Walker showcase MIRROR - a new & innovative flight visualisation tool developed by EUROCONTROL that helps operational stakeholders predict and mitigate delays. MIRROR creates a sequence of flights for each aircraft in the European aviation network, enabling operational stakeholders to predict delays more accurately, and take measures to mitigate their impact. This increases the efficiency and sustainability of flights and reduces the financial impact for airlines.