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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
Surface
Airport (Ramp) Airport (Ramp)
OceanicEn Route En Route ArrivalDe
partu
re
Surface
AIRE
Arrival
En Route Oceanic En Route
Departure
TFMAirlines
LandingTake-off
AiRE: a gate-to-gate vew
1- According to
ICAO Circular
303/AN 176.
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