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Assumptions–Airlines Team
- Airspace is complex
- Penalty acceptable for predictability
- Common platform
- Common situational awareness
- Compatible collaboration tools
- Automation and technology to decrease workload
- Collaboration at all phases
- Problem definition
- Options
- Solutions
- 100% participation
- Commercial
- General aviation, military, international (especially Canadian)
- Everyone must conform to Federal Aviation Regulations
Constraints–Airlines Team
- Inter-facility disconnect
- Airlines have different procedures and rules
Topic 1: Data Sharing–Airlines Team
- Shared situational awareness (common graph display, whiteboard still
good idea)
- New age flight plan, RTCA Special Committee 169
- Better quality of information
- Accuracy, reliable, predictable
- Attempt to match flight plan filing time to length of accurate
forecast
- National Airspace System Status Information (NASSI) must be administered
Topic 2: Automation, Procedures, Technology, Training–Airlines
Team
- Common, integrated platform (establish minimum std requirements)
- Domestic Reduced Vertical Separation Minimum (RVSM)
- OK in ocean, increases capacity
- Collaborative system not just tools
- Rules, procedures, training
- Provide constraints w/options and impact (pain/delay)
- Systematic rapid & reliable communications
- Too much Air Traffic Control (ATC) dependence on phones
- Utilize automation prior to telcon to enhance situational
awareness, reduced telcon lengths, and address real-time changes
- Datalink-type communication capabilities to reduce information/modification
dissemination times to all users (aeronautical operations centers
[AOCs], ATC facilities, pilots)
- Enhancement of Playbook modifications through common platform
- Increase capacity where possible, rather than reducing it unnecessarily
- Maintain metrics
- Analysis of plan required
- Rationing scheme critical for rerouting (base on "true"
demand)
- Development along the lines of collaborative traffic flow management
outlook periods
- Establish guidelines
- 6 hr views, 2 hr views
- Be cognizant of the broad ranges of needs of the different carriers
(i.e., mixed capabilities of MD-80 aircraft)
- Timing of fixes to system
- Fixes today - procedures, incremental
- Fixes tomorrow - Star Wars
- Broader participation (equitability)
- General aviation, foreign (especially Canada), military, airline
management
Topic 3: Real-Time–Airlines Team
- Early discussion of weather problem and potential plans on common
industry platform
- Use strategic planning team to implement plan rather than create
- Airlines provide plan for FAA to critique
- Don't be afraid to fail (be willing to float ideas)
- Pathfinder
- Allow for possible Flow Constrained Area (FCA) "Nominal 1"
rather than "Nominal 0"
- Collaborative exit strategy
- Don't penalize
- Graphical collaboration of proposed reroute
- Reroute coordination and confirmation process
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