Airbus Expands Contract with AVTECH for SESAR Work

Airbus has extended and expanded its contract with AVTECH Sweden for assistance on its work on Eurocontrol's SESAR (Single European Sky ATM Research Programme).

AVTECH has developed a set of computer simulation tools for designing new operational procedures that can increase runway capacity and reduce fuel burn and resulting emissions as well as noise similar to what was achieved at Stockholm Arlanda with its Green Approach Project, which uses an airplane's FMS (flight management system), connected to air traffic control via datalink, to strategically accomplish four-dimensional, continuous-descent arrivals.  The current target is to reduce negative environmental effects by 10% for each individual flight.

Patrick Manzi, AVTECH's simulation domain leader, says the challenge is to operate each flight as efficiently as possible, and only constrain it when needed to achieve overall optimization.

Increasing capacity is another important part of the SESAR effort, which also is seeking to triple European air traffic capacity by 2020.

AVTECH established a Toulouse office in 2006 to support Airbus's SESAR efforts.  03-29-2007.

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