1. New Airport Safety Nets for Controllers- from Concept to Implementation
Roger Lane
EUROCONTROL
Airport R&D Unit
Safety Forum
Brussels June 2016

2. 80% of Humans are caused by accidents !
Prevention
80% of Humans are caused by accidents !

3. Not all airports accidents are predictable !

4. Timeline for new Airport Safety Nets
2006 – 2009 EUROCONTROL Project (ITWP) developed the initial concept and performed 2 Real Time Simulations. Studied actual Airport Incidents and Controller tasks
2010 – 2016 SESAR continued the development of the concept in P and performed many V2 and V3 Validations, including in January the first live trial using real surveillance data and traffic at Riga Airport
2016 – The Safety Nets are also being integrated into the EUROCONTROL A-SMGCS Specification document that is being updated by the EUROCONTROL A-SMGCS Task Force.
2017 – 2020 The Airport Safety Nets and A-SMGCS Routing are now part of the European Implementation - Pilot Common Project (PCP) and 21 major European airports have been identified to implement them.

5. A-SMGCS RMCA (Previously named RIMS or Level 2) CATC (new) CMAC (new)
Some Acronyms
A-SMGCS
RMCA (Previously named RIMS or Level 2)
CATC (new)
CMAC (new)

6. A-SMGCS Advanced Surface Movement Guidance and Control Systems
RIGA Tower
Electronic Flight Strips
A-SMGCS Screen

7. Runway Monitoring and Conflict Alerting (RMCA)
Alerts are triggered based only on the mobiles position – it has proved very hard to tune with no false alerts

8. Why do we need new safety nets?
Not all airports have RMCA (ATCOs often work alone on their position)
The ones with RMCA are still having incidents
RMCA is triggered at the last moment
Based only on surveillance
LUXEMBOURG – 21/1/2010 B744 lands on Vehicle
OSLO – 25/2/2010 AFL A320 Departs from TWY M

9. CATC – Conflicting ATC
Clearances
Covers the situation where a controller forgets they have given one clearance to a mobile and then try to give another clearance which could lead to an incident or worse accident.

10. Example of a CATC ZURICH AIRPORT
15 March 2011 two Airbus A320s nearly collide on take off
It was found that both aircraft had been cleared for take off on, respectively, runway 16 and runway 28, by the same controller after he had forgotten about the first clearance he had issued.

11. Example of a CATC
LOS ANGELES- 1 Feb 1991 – US Air B737 lands and hits a Metroliner because the Controller was distracted and forgot about the Metroliner that was already lined up on the same runway.
34 Dead

12. CONFLICTING ATC CLEARANCES (CATC) – An indicator (small Orange line) on the EFS and Radar Label menu shows that a LINE UP (or TOF) clearance should not be given to AFL2683 as an aircraft on 2.5 mile final has a LANDING clearance on the same runway

13. CONFLICTING ATC CLEARANCES (CATC) – If the ATCO inputs the clearance then there is an additional warning window asking him or her to confirm their intention. Cancelling closes the window.

14. CMAC
(Conformance Monitoring Alerts for Controllers)
Covers the situation where there is a non conformance to procedures or instructions. Examples are Flight Crew not doing what they have been instructed to, like lining up / taking off without a clearance, taxiing the wrong way or entering a closed runway or taxiway.

15. No Taxi clearance Alert

16. TWY CLOSED Alert

17. ROUTE DEVIATION Alert and RWSL

18. ROUTE DEVIATION Alarm

19. ROUTE DEVIATION False Alert

20. NO TAKE OFF Alarm

21. RUNWAY INCURSION (Vehicle with no clearance to ENTER)

22. Requirements for Future Safety Nets ?
A-SMGCS
Surveillance – RIGA validation confirmed the need for accuracy and reliability
Airport Safety Nets - Current RMCA (+ New CMAC and CATC)
Routing Service
EFS (Electronic Flight Strips)
Capable of inputting the necessary clearances (e.g. PUSH, TAXI, HOLD, LINE UP, Conditional Line Up, TAKE OFF. LAND, CROSS, ENTER)
ATCO Training
Timely input on the EFS essential to avoid false alerts

23. Summary 2006 – ITWP Project Launched 2007 – ITWP Workshop
2007 – ITWP RTS
(CATC and CMAC)
2008 – ITWP Workshop
2008 – ITWP RTS
(CATC and CMAC)
2009 – ITWP Functional and HMI Requirements
2009 – SESAR 1 Launched P
2011 – ITWP+INATMIG Prototype V2- RTS
(CATC )
2012 – ITWP+INATMIG Prototype V2- RTS
(CMAC )
2016 –
SESAR STEP 1 OSED
SPR and INTEROP
2012 – DLR V3- RTS
(CATC )
2013/5/ – ITWP Integrated V2- RTS
(CATC and CMAC
+D-TAXI and AGL)
2015/6 – 4 x V3- Integrated RTS
(CATC and CMAC )
2016 – V3- LIVE and SHADOW MODE
(CATC and CMAC with D-TAXi and AGL )

24. Prevention
Safety is no Accident

25. Questions ?

26. - Frankfurt International - Dusseldorf International
List of PCP Airports
Dublin Airport
- London Heathrow
- London Gatwick
London Stansted
- Manchester Ringway
- Amsterdam Schiphol
- Frankfurt International
- Munich Franz Josef Strauss
Berlin Airport
- Dusseldorf International
- Madrid Barajas
Barcelona El Prat
- Palma de Mallorca
- Zurich Kloten
- Oslo Gardermoen
- Stockholm Arlanda
- Copenhagen Kastrup
- Vienna Schwechat
- Nice Cote d’Azur
-- Paris Orly
- Paris CDG