Airservices Australia
Australian airspace
Airservices Australia
INTEGRATION OF PBN PROCEDURES
INTO AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT
– RNP (AR) Terminal Area Procedures
Peter Curran
ICAO Asia-Pacific PBN Implementation Seminar,
Hong Kong, 1-2 February 2010
• Australian Context
• Australia RNP-AR Terminal Area Program
• ATM Opportunities
• ATM Challenges
• Questions
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OVERVIEW
• Airservices Australia owned by the Australian Government
•Provides safe and environmentally sound air traffic management and related airside services
• Funded by aviation industry charges
• ATS is regulated by Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA)
• Procedure Design regulated by CASA
AUSTRALIAN CONTEXT
• Successful trial CASA, Qantas, Naverus and AA
• From Trial to a National RNP Network
» Airservices will provide
RNP-AR Terminal Area
Procedures at 8 major
aerodromes
» Procedures will be
designed to RNP 0.3
• Airlines must gain CASA authorisation to participate
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AUSTRALIAN RNP PROGRAM
• RNP-AR Terminal Area Procedures to be provided for 4 “performance families”
» Regional
» Medium
» 2-Engine Heavy
» 4-Engine Heavy
• 2&4-Engine Heavy will be deployed at Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne
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AUSTRALIAN RNP PROGRAM
CASA
Naverus IncAirservices
Australia
Qantas
RNP-AR Trial
Airservices
Australia
RNP-AR National Network
Qantas
Jetstar
Virgin
Blue
NaverusProcedureDesigner
Other
airlines
CASA
Implementation of Terminal Area RNP ProjectAUSTRALIAN RNP PROGRAM
• ICAO ATM Performance Expectations:
� Access and Equity
� Capacity
� Cost Effectiveness
� Efficiency
� Environment
� Flexibility
� Global Interoperability
� Participation
� Predictability
� Safety
� Security.
ATM OPPORTUNITIES
• Access and Equity
� Improved airspace
design
� Enhanced vertical and
longitudinal
performance
• Capacity
� Airspace design using
Reduced tolerances
� Potential for improved
ATFM
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ATM OPPORTUNITIES
• Cost Effectiveness
� Longer-term
opportunity to reduce
ground based
infrastructure
� Value provided to the
equipped - ROI
• Efficiency
� Enabler for CDA
� Potential minima
advantage
� Potential track mile
reduction
� Potential payload
increase
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ATM OPPORTUNITIES
Profile
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RNPNon-RNP
• Environment
� Reduced Green House
Gas emissions thru
track mile reduction
and CDA
� Potential noise
reduction thru thrust
idle approach
� Consideration in noise
versus emissions
discussion
• Flexibility
� Multi-path tracking can
be facilitated with
improved ATFM
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ATM OPPORTUNITIES
• Global Interoperability
� Opportunity to standardise our approach of PBN (RNP)
• Participation
� Providing value to the equipped encourages uptake without an exclusionary approach
• Predictability
� Improved vertical, lateral and longitudinal performance – better ATFM
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ATM OPPORTUNITIES
• Safety
� Non-normal operations
procedure
� Improved navigation
performance
� Reduced trajectory
modification
• Security
� Increased navigational
accuracy facilitates
civil-military situational
awareness
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ATM OPPORTUNITIES
• Leveraging the opportunities is often the greatest challenge
• Specific Challenges include:
�Noise versus Emissions�Changes to ATC Practices�Integration of legacy and RNP airframes
ATM CHALLENGES