aviation system block upgrades (asbu), blocks 0 and...

Federal Aviation Administration

ATC Global

Presented by: B. Bagstad, FAA ATO International

Date: September, 2014

Aviation System Block Upgrades

(ASBU), Blocks 0 and 1

2 Federal Aviation Administration

Aviation System Block Upgrades (ASBU)

• ASBU is a systems engineering planning and implementation approach

• ASBU is a global framework to ensure: – Aviation Safety will be maintained and enhanced

– ATM improvement programs are effectively harmonized

– Barriers to future aviation efficiency and environmental gains can be removed at reasonable cost

• ASBU incorporates a long-term perspective matching companion ICAO documents

• ASBU serves to provide industry-wide transparency and essential investment certainty


ASBU: Performance Improvement Areas

(PIA), Blocks, Threads, and Modules

PIA 1

PIA 2

PIA 3

PIA 4


PIA and Phases of Flight

PIA 1: Airport Operations

PIA 2: Globally Interoperable Systems & Data

PIA 3: Globally Collaborative ATM

PIA 4: Efficient Flight Paths

















Data + SWIM






Blocks: Timelines for the Modules

PIA 1

PIA 2

PIA 3

PIA 4

Block 0 (2013) means: ICAO is responsible for producing

all the materials to implement B0 modules by the end of

2013

Block 0 (2013) means: Member States determine which

modules and when to implement them


Threads: A series of dependent Modules

across consecutive Blocks

PIA 1

PIA 2

PIA 3

PIA 4


ASBU Threads

PIA1: Airport Operations - Full

AMAN/DMAN/SMAN

APTA Airport Accessibility

RSEQ Runway Sequencing

ACDM Airport CDM

SURF Surface Operations

WAKE Wake Turbulence Separation

RATS Remote ATS

PIA2: Globally Interoperable Systems

& Data - Full FF/ICE

AMET Advanced MET Information

DAIM Digital ATM

FICE FFICE

SWIM SWIM

PIA3: Optimum Capacity & Flexible

Flight – Complexity Management

FRTO Free Route Operations

ASEP Airborne Separation

ASUR Alternative Surveillance

OPFL Optimum Flight Levels

NOPS Network Operations

ACAS Airborne Collision Avoidance Sys

SNET Ground-Based Safety Nets

PIA 4: Efficient Flight Paths – Full

Trajectory-Based Operations

TBO Trajectory-Based Operations

CDO Continuous Decent Operations

CCO Continuous Climb Operations

RPAS Remotely Piloted Aircraft Sys


Technology Roadmaps

1. Communication 3. Navigation 5. Avionics

• A/G data comm • Dedicated technology • Communications

• G/G comm • Performance-based

navigation

• Surveillance

• A/G voice comm • Navigation

2. Surveillance 4. Information

Management

• Aircraft safety nets

• Surface surveillance • SWIM • Onboard systems

• Ground-based

surveillance

• Other

• A/A surveillance


Communication 1. Communication (A/G Data) 2. Communication (G/G Data and A/G Voice)

Surveillance 3. Surveillance (Ground-based and Surface) 4. Surveillance (A/A)

Navigation 5. Navigation (Conventional, Satellite-based) 6. PBN (En-route, Oceanic, Terminal)

Information

Management

7. Information Management (SWIM) 8. Information Management (F/F, AIS/AIM, MET)

Avionics 9. Avionics (Communications & Surveillance) 10. Avionics (Navigation) 11. Avionics (Airborne Safety Nets, On-Board Sys)

List of Technology Roadmaps


How Many Block 0 Modules?

B0 Modules in PIA1: Airport

Operations

B0 Modules in PIA2: Globally

Interoperable Systems & Data

B0 Modules in PIA3: Optimum

Capacity & Flexible Flight

B0 Modules in PIA 4: Efficient

Flight Paths 3

7

3

5

18


What are Block Elements?

Summary Description

Main performance impact as per Doc 9883

Operating environment/Phases of flight

Applicability considerations

Global concept component(s) as per Doc 9854

Global plan initiatives (GPI)

Main dependencies

Global readiness checklist Status • Standards readiness

• Avionics availability

• Ground system availability

• Procedures available

• Operations approvals

Modules consist of one or more Elements

that are implementable


Working Document for the ASBU

1. Narrative 1.1 General

1.2 Baseline

1.3 Change brought by the module

1.4+ Elements’ Descriptions

2. Intended Performance Operational

Improvement

3. Necessary Procedures (A and G)

4. Necessary System Capability

5. Human Performance

6. Regulatory/Standardization needs

and Approval Plan (A and G)

7. Implementation and demonstration

Activities

8. Reference Documents


APTA Optimization of Approach Procedures including

Vertical Guidance

RSEQ Improve Traffic Flow through Sequencing

(AMAN/DMAN)

ACDM Improved Airport Operations through Airport-CDM

SURF Safety and Efficiency of Surface Operations (A-

SMGCS Level 1-2)

WAKE Increased Runway Throughput through Optimized

Wake Turbulence Separation

B0 Modules in PIA1:

Airport Operations

PIA 1 consists of 6 threads and 5 of them have

Block 0 modules. (Missing is RATS.)


AMET Meteorological Information Supporting Enhanced

Operational Efficiency and Safety

DAIM Service Improvement through Digital Aeronautical

Information Management

FICE Increased Interoperability, Efficiency and Capacity

though Ground-Ground Integration

B0 Modules in PIA2: Globally

Interoperable Systems & Data Data + SWIM


Block 0 modules. (Missing is SWIM.)


B0 Modules in PIA3: Optimum Capacity & Flexible Flight

FRTO Improved Operations through Enhanced En-route

Trajectories

ASEP Air Traffic Situational Awareness (ATSA)

ASUR Initial Capability for Ground Surveillance

OPFL Improved Access to Optimum Flight Levels through

Climb/Descent Procedures using ADS B

NOPS Improved Flow Performance through Planning based on a

Network-wide view

ACAS Airborne Collision Avoidance Systems (ACAS)

Improvements

SNET Increased Effectiveness of Ground-Based Safety Nets

All 7 PIA 3 threads have Block 0 modules.


B0 Modules in PIA 4: Efficient Flight Paths

TBO Improved Safety and Efficiency through the Initial

Application of Data Link En-route

CDO Improved Flexibility and Efficiency in Descent Profiles

using Continuous Descent Operations (CDOs)

CCO Improved Flexibility and Efficiency Departure Profiles –

Continuous Climb Operations (CCOs)


Block 0 modules. (Missing is RPAS.)


Block 1

Optimum

Capacity and

Flexible Flights

Globally

Interoperable

Systems and

Data

Efficient Flight

Path

Airport

Operations

Performance

Improvement

Areas

Block 1 (2018)

Block 0 (2013)

Block 2 (2023)

Block 3 (2028 & >)


Block 1

• 4 Main Performance improvement areas

– Airport Operations (6 modules)

– Globally interoperable systems & data (4 modules)

– Optimum capacity & flexible flights (4 modules)

– Efficient flight path (3 modules)

• Block 1 will serve as the enabler and foundation for the envisioned future aviation systems.


Block 1 – 2018 Modules

• Modules satisfy one of the following criteria

– The operational improvement represents a well

understood concept that has yet to be trialed.

– The operational improvement has been trialed

successfully in a simulated environment.

– The operational improvement has been trialed

successfully in a controlled environment

– The operational improvement is approved and ready

for roll-out


Block 1 in Perspective

CTA

B1-APTA - Optimised Airport

Accessibility

B1-SURF - Enhanced

Safety & Efficiency of

Surface Operations

SURF,SURFIA, EVS)

B1-ACDM - Optimised Airport

Operations through A-

CDM

B1-RSEQ - Improved

Airport Operations

through Departure,

Surface and Arrival

Management

B1-WAKE - Increased

Runway Throughput

through Dynamic Wake

Vortex Separation

B1-DATM - Service

Improvement through

Integration of all Digital ATM

Information

ToD B1-CDO - Improved

Flexibility & Efficiency in

Descent Profiles (OPDs)

using VNAV

B1-RPAS - Initial Integration of

Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA)

Systems into non-segregated airspace

B1-FICE - Increased

Interoperability, Efficiency &

Capacity though FF-ICE/1 application

before Departure

ToC

B1-ASEP - Increased

Capacity & Flexibility through

Interval Management

B1-AMET Enhanced Operational Decisions

through Integrated

Weather Information

B1-FRTO - Improved Operations

through Optimized

ATS Routing

B1-NOPS - Enhanced Flow

Performance through Network

Operational Planning

B1-TBO - Improved Traffic

Synchronisation and Initial

Trajectory-Based Operation

B1-SWIM - Performance

Improvement through the

application of System Wide

Information Management (SWIM)

B1-RATS - Remotely Operated

Aerodrome Control

Tower

B1-SNET- Ground-based Safety

Nets on Approach


Communications


Challenges - How to Get There?

• Budget considerations are greater for Block 1 since these modules do involve technology insertion in either ground/air or both.

• Block 1 has a strong dependency on moving to network based communications for aviation.

• There are regional synchronization issues of equipage and capabilities to achieve much of Block 1. This is essential to the successful implementation to the future Blocks. – Global standards can alleviate such risks and ensure interoperability

between regional ANSPs. Global standards also offers stakeholders a common rubric.

Aviation System Block Upgrade – Block I