Implementation of CPDLC Services across Europe

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Implementation of CPDLC Services across Europe
 

• IATA Position

Link 2000 workshop, 15/16 February 2005
Gerry OConnell Assistant Director Safety,
Operations Infrastructure, Europe
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• Data communication
• VDL Mode 2
• Airline position on Link2000
• Way forward

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Safety
Between 1976 and 2000 more than 1,100 passengers
and crew lost their lives in accidents in which
investigators determined that voice
communications had played a Contributory
role (ICAO Journal Jan. 2004)
Data Communication !
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The Facts

• Data communications enables
• Enhanced Safety
• Increased efficiency
• Increased capacity
• Delay reduction
• Less frequency congestion and
• Lower infrastructure costs

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Risks

• Reduction of safety
• Ambiguity of information/messages
• Differences in interpretation of CPDLC messages
• Lack of harmonization ATM functions
• Loss of efficiency
• Non-transparent procedures
• Lack of ground automation
• Increased costs
• Too much technical solutions
• Late introduction of data based Air Traffic
  Services
• Overstated requirements

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Why VDL Mode 2 ?

• Available now
• Increasing equipage and services
• Easy transition from ACARS
• Global solution
• Meets ATS service requirements
• Increasing States/ANSP consensus (11th ANC)
• Low technical risk
• Ground services being deployed
• Alternatives are not making business sense

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VDL Mode 2 a progression from ACARS

• Growth data communication
• Enables new uses for data link communications
• Augments VHF ACARS worldwide
• Relieves VHF frequency demand

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Airlines Position on LINK2000

• After extensive discussions with IATA/AEA
  Airlines delivered a position on the proposed
  Rule
• IATA/AEA Airlines support a mandate for CPDLC
  over ATN/VDLM2 for new aircraft per 31 March 2009
• IATA/AEA Airlines agree only on a mandate for
  retrofit aircraft per 31 March 2014 provided some
  relevant issues are properly addressed and taken
  into account in the text of the Rule

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Airline Issues

• Implement an incentivised retrofit scheme
• Aircraft manufacturers and VDL Mode 2 equipment
  vendors need to lower the cost of the embodiment
• Need to reconsider the ICAO data recording
  requirement for retrofit aircraft
• Need for a harmonized MEL policy
• Need for appropriate exemptions for aircraft that
  cannot be economically equipped

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Airline Issues (2)

• FANS 1/A aircraft accommodation without ops
  restrictions and no extra cost to the airspace
  user
• Eurocontrol to demonstrate and monitor efficiency
  improvements
• Ensure that the full capability coverage of the
  ATS System is operationally available
  (integration into ATS platforms, controller
  training etc)

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Way Forward

• Equipment manufacturers - Provide equipment in
  time at reasonable costs
• Airframe manufacturers - Encourage forward fit
• Communication providers -Provide an equitable
  service
• Air Navigation Service providers -Commit,
  implement and share the benefits