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Stakeholder Forum

At the end o 2008,

at the European Avaton Summt

on sustanablty, the SESAR

Jont Undertakng ormally

announced the commtment o

17 ndustry partners to testng

novel, green fght procedures

under real condtons.The low-nose and CO

2-emsson

fght trals are beng organsed n

the ramework o AiRE,

an agreement between the

European Commsson and

the US Federal Avaton

Admnstraton, whch ams to

develop envronmentally-rendlyar transport operatons

on transatlantc routes.

More than 100 trals wll be

perormed ths year.

Alan Sebert, n charge o the

AiRE Programme at the SESAR

Jont Undertakng, reports.

Kick-off of 100 AIrE tials

to test low-CO2-emsson fghtprocedures n real condtons

Antonio Tajani, European Commission

Vice-President and Commissioner or

Transport, had the ollowing to say:

Low-emission ights are already possible

today; the technology is available and

all actors are willing to defne together

how the system should work. The AIRE

Programme is the European and trans-

Atlantic platorm to show that these are

not only words but that green procedures

are possible and that they ully comply

with the most stringent saety require-

ments. They make ying much more

efcient and reduce the costs and the

eects on the environment and on the

people living around airports. I am conf-

dent that we will soon put green proce-

dures into daily practice.

EU-US green fightcooperation

The Atlantic Interoperability Initiative to

Reduce Emissions (AIRE) Agreement

between the European Commission and

the United States is a programme which

aims to reduce CO2

emissions. By taking

advantage o air trafc management

best practices and new technologies, it

expects to accelerate the implementation

o environmentally-riendly procedures

or all phases o ight, and to validate

the benefts o these improvements. The

SESAR Joint Undertaking is responsible

or the management o AIRE rom a

European perspective.

AIRE is moving orward:more than 100 trials and17 partners

Under this initiative, airlines, air navi-

gation service providers (ANSPs), the

manuacturing industry and airports are

invited to capitalise on present avionics

technology and work collaboratively in

order to perorm integrated ight trials

and demonstrations validating solutions

or the reduction o CO2

emissions.

The SESAR Joint Undertaking will

directly support more than 100 trials

scheduled to take place in 2009 with 17

partners: Airbus, Air France, the French

ANSP DSNA, Aroports de Paris,

Thales, ADACEL, AVTECH,

Egis Avia, Nav Portugal, TAP

Portugal, Isavia, Icelandair,

AENA, INECO, Iberia, LFV and

Novair.

Greener ight procedures have the

potential to reduce the environmental

impact o each ight by 10%. To make

this happen, we need to accelerate the

pace o change by testing new proce-

dures in live conditions. Each integrated

project will aim to demonstrate the envi-

ronmental, operational and economic

benefts that modern, environmentally-

riendly solutions will bring to air trafc

management. These trials will comple-

ment the fndings o a number o earlier

AIRE activities conducted since 2007,

some o them already putting Europeans

and Americans side by side. In addition,

and in close dialogue with our ounding

members the European Commission

and EUROCONTROL, we have initi-

ated a consolidation process o other

relevant activities in Europe under AIRE

to capture synergies. We are also inten-

Atlantic Interoperability Initiative to Reduce Emissions

AIRE

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Green ground movement trials with Air

France at Paris CDG (in cooperation

with the DSNA and Aroports de Paris)

will seek to demonstrate the eective-

ness o a new collaborative decision

support system which will minimise taxi

time and allow or single engine taxi

operation, thanks to enhanced time

predictability.

Terminal

Airports are one o the bottlenecks

o the present air trafc management

system. Air trafc ows are managed on

a frst-come, frst-served basis leading

to unnecessary uel burn, as air trafc

control oten requires aircrat to level

o and hold at intermediate altitudes

during descent. Green approach

(Continuous Descent Approaches) and

green climb trials at Madrid, Paris CDG

and Stockholm airports involving DSNA,

Thales, AVTECH, LFV, Novair, Egis Avia,

AENA, INECO, Iberia and Air France are

planned. The frst Required Navigation

siying our exchange with the FAA with

a view to urther strengthening trans-

Atlantic cooperation in this feld.

These trials will be conducted or ground

movements and terminal and oceanic

procedures. In certain cases, outcomes

o these trials will be coupled in order to

have a gate-to-gate view o the ights.

Ground movement

On average, aircrat are responsible

or only about hal o the emissions

produced at and around airports1. The

airport-related emission sources are

generally categorised under aircrat

emissions (aircrat engines and auxiliary

power units), aircrat handling emissions

(mainly ground support equipment,

airside trafc, aircrat de-icing and

reuelling), inrastructure or stationary

sources (surace de-icing, power/heat

generation plant, construction activities,

etc.) and all vehicle trafc sources asso-

ciated with the airport on access roads.

Perormance CDA approach ever to be

perormed in Europe is now planned at

Stockholms Arlanda airport in coopera-

tion with Airbus.

Oceanic

In the present system, ever-increasing

trafc ows between Europe and North

America are leading to inefcient uel

consumption, ewer accepted pilot

requests and airline schedule disrup-

tions. Trials or green Oceanic proce-

dures and techniques (speed, horizontal

and lateral ight profle optimisation)

with Nav Portugal, Isavia involving TAP

Portugal, Air France, ADACEL and

Icelandair on selected routes between

Europe and North/Latin America will be

carried out in 2009.

Kick-o meetings have already taken

place to start the six projects. At the

end o the year, reports will be distrib-

uted to share the outcomes o these

100 trials. n

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Airport (Ramp) Airport (Ramp)

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Surface

AIRE

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En Route Oceanic En Route

Departure

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LandingTake-off

AiRE: a gate-to-gate vew

1- According to

ICAO Circular

303/AN 176.