ECCAIRS Technical Course

1
Presentation

• ECCAIRS Technical Course
• Provided by the Joint Research Centre - Ispra
  (Italy)

2
Political Background

• Directive of the European Parliament and of the
  Council on Occurrence Reporting in Civil Aviation
• Proposed by DG-TREN
• Adopted by the European Commission in December
  2000
• Supported by the European Parliament subject to
  minor amendments in June 2001
• Common Position of the Council in 2002
• Approved in 2003
• Actions
• Setting up of National Mandatory Occurrence
  Reporting Systems
• Managed by an impartial body
• Occurrences stored in a data base using a common
  compatible software (ECCAIRS)

3
Aim

• Integration of data at EU level
• Incompatible data can be integrated
• EU wide standards for data collection
• Harmonised tools
• Collect and share occurrence information
• Perform daily statistics
• More advanced analysis tools if required
• Collaborative network of EU authorities ECCAIRS
• Not just a software
• Not just a centralised database
• A shackle of a long chain
• A coordinated network
• Subsidiarity

4
Learning Process
5
History
6
Today

• ECCAIRS 4
• Release 4.2 is current version
• Occurrence Browser
• Occurrence Grapher
• Installation tester
• Occurrence Loader and Generator
• Exporter
• Dictionary Browser
• Related products
• SRMS
• WebDAS
• Taxonomy tools (Translator, Editor)
• Batchelor
• Mephisto

7
Tomorrow

• ECCAIRS 4.x
• Enhancements
• New features and functions
• Microsoft .NET?
• Tools/Add-ins
• More productivity tools
• Re-engineering of contracted work
• Full Web Data Access
• Data-entry via internet or intranet