FLYSAFE OVERVIEW

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FLYSAFEOVERVIEW

• Marc FABREGUETTES, THALES
• 18th September 2007

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Airborne Integrated Systems for Safety
Improvement, Flight Hazard Protection and All
Weather Operations
FLYSAFEScope and main activities The
consortium Current status
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The challenge of Safety

• Air traffic will triple in the next 20 years
• Ambition of ACARE Vision 2020 is that increased
  traffic will not lead to an increase in the
  number of accidents, meaning the performance
  of safety-related systems and procedures must at
  least triple in the next 20 years
• This improvement must be achieved with
• All-weather operation
• Operation at airports 24 hours per day
• 99 of flights departing within 15 min of
  schedule

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The FLYSAFE initiative

• Several EU programmes deal with the challenge of
  maintaining the high level of Air traffic Safety
• FLYSAFE addresses this issue from an integrated
  operational perspective
• "How to provide the crews and controllers with
  the right information / signals at the right time
  to prevent / further reduce risks of accidents in
  all circumstances"

• First target transport aircraft
• Application to business jets and
• helicopters also studied

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FLYSAFE approach

• Review of past accidents, analysis and definition
  of means (that would allow) to prevent them with
  careful consideration of human factors issues
• Analysis in three branches for the different
  hazard information management
• Weather, with specific studies in atmospheric
  hazards
• Traffic
• Terrain
• For each of them development of new systems and
  functions, notably
• improved situation awareness,
• advance warning,
• alert prioritisation,
• enhanced human-machine interface

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The FLYSAFE approach (2)

• Definition and validation of a new generation
  integrated solution (NG-ISS)
• Support design and development with
  standardisation and certification activities

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FLYSAFE overall concept
ADS-B
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FLYSAFE WIMSs

• FLYSAFE develops ground-based Weather Information
  Management Systems (WIMS)
• They will provide accurate forecasts of specific
  atmospheric hazards to be uplinked to the cockpit
  and copied to Air traffic Management (ATM)
• Information on hazards currently available will
  also be uplinked to the cockpit (including
  volcanic ash)

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FLYSAFE WIMSs
The 4 categories of atmospheric hazards addressed
by the WIMSs

• Clear-Air-Turbulence

• Wake vortices

• Thunderstorms

• Aircraft icing

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FLYSAFE WIMSs

• WIMSs will provide flight-specific,
• route relevant information on three scales

• Low resolution data and relatively infrequent
  updates
• Mid resolution data and fairly frequent updates
• High resolution data with frequent updates

Global scale, with particular emphasis on field
of view Continental scale TMA scale
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FLYSAFE NG-ISS

• New on-board systems and functions
• improved situation awareness
• advanced warning
• alert prioritisation
• enhanced human-machine interfaces
• New sensors and sensor fusion technique
• Improved on-board weather hazard detection and
  data fusion with new ground-based, specific
  weather hazard information products, uplinked to
  the aircraft
• All on-board means integrated in a consistent
  system, with innovative HMI
• And their integration into a global ATM
  environment

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FLYSAFE System OverviewNG ISS

• FLYSAFE develops a mock-up of an onboard Next
  Generation Integrated Surveillance System (NG
  ISS)
• It will provide the air crew with a combined
  vision of the current situation and the
  strategically projected situation within the next
  minutes
• Surveillance Functions addressing
• Weather hazards
• Traffic hazards
• Terrain hazards
• Resolution of conflicts
• Dangerous situations in the near future will be
  identified and possible solutions will be shown
  to the pilot.

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FLYSAFE System Overview NG ISS
Terrain Surveillance Systems
Data Fusion
Strategic Data Consolidation
Display Audio Management
Traffic Surveillance Systems
Data Fusion
Tactical Alert Management
Intelligent Crew Support
Weather Surveillance Systems
Data Fusion
Flight Deck Displays
NG ISS

• Major benefits compared to current ISS
• Detection of future threats up to 30 minutes
  ahead
• Provision of advice, how to avoid the threats
• Enhanced visualisation of the surrounding
  weather, traffic and terrain situation

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SDCDetection of Conflicts
Calculation of Conflict Points
Predicted Conflicts

• Terrain
• TAWS terrain database
• check is only performed on flight plan change
• Space of Interest Full Flight Plan

• Traffic
• other traffic 4D predicted Trajectory (from
  ADS-B)
• protection zone around predicted trajectory
  to avoid TCAS alerts
• Space Of Interest 12 min (continuous checks)

computed own ship trajectory (from FMS)

• Weather
• Weather forecast and nowcast from ground WIMS
  (Weather Information Management Systems)
• Weather radar and other sensors
• Space of Interest 40 min (continuous checks)

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NG ISSStrategic Data Consolidation (SDC)

• Detects the possible weather / traffic / terrain
  threats along the flight plan,
• Resolves conflicts by proposing a new Flight
  plan.

• Primary Objectives
• Process alerts from safety net systems TAWS
  TCAS
• Avoid encountering adverse weather situations
• Prioritisation of alerts
• Secondary Objectives
• No false / nuisance alerts

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Airborne Integrated Systems for Safety
Improvement, Flight Hazard Protection and All
Weather Operations
FLYSAFEScope and main activities The
consortiumCurrent status
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European Commission Project 6th Framework
Programme 2005-2009
Airborne Integrated Systems for Safety
Improvement, Flight Hazard Protection and All
Weather Operations
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The FLYSAFE Project

• Project full title Airborne Integrated Systems
  for Safety Improvement, Flight Hazard Protection
  and All Weather Operations
• Integrated Project of the 6th Framework Programme
  of the European Commission
• Coordinator THALES, Toulouse
• 36 Partners from 14 countries
• Started on February 1st, 2005
• Duration 53 months

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FLYSAFE Partners location
Moscow
Stockholm

• Austria
• Belgium
• France
• Germany
• Greece
• Italy
• Malta
• Netherlands
• Portugal
• Russia
• Slovenia
• Spain
• Sweden
• UK

Hamburg
Hanover
Amsterdam
Frankfurt, Darmstadt
Rochester
Innsbruck
Louvain
Ljubljana
Cranfield
Munich, Oberpfaf.
Ulm
Paris
Exeter
Bagneux, Orsay St Cloud, Châtillon
Athens
Rome
Turin
Toulouse
Malta
Barcelona
Lisbon
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Links with other projects

• List of other projects considered at FLYSAFE
  Project level
• ISAWARE II
• I-WAKE
• MFF
• ANASTASIA
• C-ATM 1
• EMMA, EMMA2
• OPTIMAL
• NUP II
• ASSTAR
• CAATS
• CREDOS
• SESAR
• ASAS-TN2

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Airborne Integrated Systems for Safety
Improvement, Flight Hazard Protection and All
Weather Operations
FLYSAFEScope and main activitiesThe
consortium Current status
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Status and Next steps (1)

• Most developments are evaluated in PTEs
  (Part-Task Evaluations)
• All the functions will be integrated
• first into a common platform assembled in THALES
  Toulouse
• then tested on the NLR simulator in Amsterdam,
  which will allow simulation of the complete
  aircraft environment
• aircraft behaviour,
• atmospheric conditions,
• other traffic in the air and on the ground,
• terrain,
• obstacles and
• a realistic ATC environment,
• with a high degree of accuracy

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Status and Next steps (2)
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Project Milestones
01/02/2005
30/06/2009
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Overall programme schedule
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FLYSAFE WBS - level 1
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• For further questions contact
• Marc FABREGUETTES
• THALES Avionics
• Marc-g.fabreguettes_at_fr.thalesgroup.com
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