Title: FLYSAFE OVERVIEW
1FLYSAFEOVERVIEW
- Marc FABREGUETTES, THALES
- 18th September 2007
2Airborne Integrated Systems for Safety
Improvement, Flight Hazard Protection and All
Weather Operations
FLYSAFEScope and main activities The
consortium Current status
3The challenge of Safety
- Air traffic will triple in the next 20 years
- Ambition of ACARE Vision 2020 is that increased
traffic will not lead to an increase in the
number of accidents, meaning the performance
of safety-related systems and procedures must at
least triple in the next 20 years - This improvement must be achieved with
- All-weather operation
- Operation at airports 24 hours per day
- 99 of flights departing within 15 min of
schedule
4The FLYSAFE initiative
- Several EU programmes deal with the challenge of
maintaining the high level of Air traffic Safety - FLYSAFE addresses this issue from an integrated
operational perspective - "How to provide the crews and controllers with
the right information / signals at the right time
to prevent / further reduce risks of accidents in
all circumstances"
- First target transport aircraft
- Application to business jets and
- helicopters also studied
5FLYSAFE approach
- Review of past accidents, analysis and definition
of means (that would allow) to prevent them with
careful consideration of human factors issues - Analysis in three branches for the different
hazard information management - Weather, with specific studies in atmospheric
hazards - Traffic
- Terrain
- For each of them development of new systems and
functions, notably - improved situation awareness,
- advance warning,
- alert prioritisation,
- enhanced human-machine interface
6The FLYSAFE approach (2)
- Definition and validation of a new generation
integrated solution (NG-ISS) - Support design and development with
standardisation and certification activities
7FLYSAFE overall concept
ADS-B
8FLYSAFE WIMSs
- FLYSAFE develops ground-based Weather Information
Management Systems (WIMS) - They will provide accurate forecasts of specific
atmospheric hazards to be uplinked to the cockpit
and copied to Air traffic Management (ATM) - Information on hazards currently available will
also be uplinked to the cockpit (including
volcanic ash)
9FLYSAFE WIMSs
The 4 categories of atmospheric hazards addressed
by the WIMSs
10FLYSAFE WIMSs
- WIMSs will provide flight-specific,
- route relevant information on three scales
- Low resolution data and relatively infrequent
updates - Mid resolution data and fairly frequent updates
- High resolution data with frequent updates
Global scale, with particular emphasis on field
of view Continental scale TMA scale
11FLYSAFE NG-ISS
- New on-board systems and functions
- improved situation awareness
- advanced warning
- alert prioritisation
- enhanced human-machine interfaces
- New sensors and sensor fusion technique
- Improved on-board weather hazard detection and
data fusion with new ground-based, specific
weather hazard information products, uplinked to
the aircraft - All on-board means integrated in a consistent
system, with innovative HMI - And their integration into a global ATM
environment
12FLYSAFE System OverviewNG ISS
- FLYSAFE develops a mock-up of an onboard Next
Generation Integrated Surveillance System (NG
ISS) - It will provide the air crew with a combined
vision of the current situation and the
strategically projected situation within the next
minutes - Surveillance Functions addressing
- Weather hazards
- Traffic hazards
- Terrain hazards
- Resolution of conflicts
- Dangerous situations in the near future will be
identified and possible solutions will be shown
to the pilot.
13FLYSAFE System Overview NG ISS
Terrain Surveillance Systems
Data Fusion
Strategic Data Consolidation
Display Audio Management
Traffic Surveillance Systems
Data Fusion
Tactical Alert Management
Intelligent Crew Support
Weather Surveillance Systems
Data Fusion
Flight Deck Displays
NG ISS
- Major benefits compared to current ISS
- Detection of future threats up to 30 minutes
ahead - Provision of advice, how to avoid the threats
- Enhanced visualisation of the surrounding
weather, traffic and terrain situation
14SDCDetection of Conflicts
Calculation of Conflict Points
Predicted Conflicts
- Terrain
- TAWS terrain database
- check is only performed on flight plan change
- Space of Interest Full Flight Plan
- Traffic
- other traffic 4D predicted Trajectory (from
ADS-B) - protection zone around predicted trajectory
to avoid TCAS alerts - Space Of Interest 12 min (continuous checks)
computed own ship trajectory (from FMS)
- Weather
- Weather forecast and nowcast from ground WIMS
(Weather Information Management Systems) - Weather radar and other sensors
- Space of Interest 40 min (continuous checks)
15NG ISSStrategic Data Consolidation (SDC)
- Detects the possible weather / traffic / terrain
threats along the flight plan, - Resolves conflicts by proposing a new Flight
plan.
- Primary Objectives
- Process alerts from safety net systems TAWS
TCAS - Avoid encountering adverse weather situations
- Prioritisation of alerts
- Secondary Objectives
- No false / nuisance alerts
16Airborne Integrated Systems for Safety
Improvement, Flight Hazard Protection and All
Weather Operations
FLYSAFEScope and main activities The
consortiumCurrent status
17European Commission Project 6th Framework
Programme 2005-2009
Airborne Integrated Systems for Safety
Improvement, Flight Hazard Protection and All
Weather Operations
18The FLYSAFE Project
- Project full title Airborne Integrated Systems
for Safety Improvement, Flight Hazard Protection
and All Weather Operations - Integrated Project of the 6th Framework Programme
of the European Commission - Coordinator THALES, Toulouse
- 36 Partners from 14 countries
- Started on February 1st, 2005
- Duration 53 months
19FLYSAFE Partners location
Moscow
Stockholm
- Austria
- Belgium
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Italy
- Malta
- Netherlands
- Portugal
- Russia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- UK
Hamburg
Hanover
Amsterdam
Frankfurt, Darmstadt
Rochester
Innsbruck
Louvain
Ljubljana
Cranfield
Munich, Oberpfaf.
Ulm
Paris
Exeter
Bagneux, Orsay St Cloud, Châtillon
Athens
Rome
Turin
Toulouse
Malta
Barcelona
Lisbon
20Links with other projects
- List of other projects considered at FLYSAFE
Project level - ISAWARE II
- I-WAKE
- MFF
- ANASTASIA
- C-ATM 1
- EMMA, EMMA2
- OPTIMAL
- NUP II
- ASSTAR
- CAATS
- CREDOS
- SESAR
- ASAS-TN2
21Airborne Integrated Systems for Safety
Improvement, Flight Hazard Protection and All
Weather Operations
FLYSAFEScope and main activitiesThe
consortium Current status
22Status and Next steps (1)
- Most developments are evaluated in PTEs
(Part-Task Evaluations) - All the functions will be integrated
- first into a common platform assembled in THALES
Toulouse - then tested on the NLR simulator in Amsterdam,
which will allow simulation of the complete
aircraft environment - aircraft behaviour,
- atmospheric conditions,
- other traffic in the air and on the ground,
- terrain,
- obstacles and
- a realistic ATC environment,
- with a high degree of accuracy
23Status and Next steps (2)
24Project Milestones
01/02/2005
30/06/2009
25Overall programme schedule
26FLYSAFE WBS - level 1
27Please visit our website http//www.eu-flysafe.or
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- For further questions contact
- Marc FABREGUETTES
- THALES Avionics
- Marc-g.fabreguettes_at_fr.thalesgroup.com
- Tel 33 (0)5 61 19 78 65