An Enabling Environment for Air Navigation
IFATCA regional meeting
28-30 October 2015
Accra
Lindi-Lee Kirkman
Manager Safety & Flight Operations Africa
2015
Where we’ve come from
1903
wright
brothers
1914
1919
1921
1926
1929
first
Intl
first airport USA first
Warsaw
commercial convention
ATC
regulations- convention
flight
for air
(Croydon
air
navigation
airport
commerce
London)
act
1930's
first radio
equipped
tower
1933
1935
instrument first airway
flights start
control
station
1936
1940's
1944
1945
1950's
1952
1960's
1969
1971
1992
first
paper strips Chicago founding of
second
first
third
FAA
first low cost First open
generation
replace
convention
IATA
generation commercial generation implement
airline
skies
ATC
blackboards
ATC
jet flight
ATC
the first
agreement
"system"
"systems"
systems
computer
making use
(automation) providing
of early
automatic
radar
distribution
of flight-plan
data
Pictures from www.avstop.com/history/atc and www.flying100years.com
2
2015
Pushing to the Future
 Drivers:
 Weakening global economy
 The Environment
 Increasing demand on airspace vs capacity…there is only one Sky
 Rising fuel and operating costs
 Customer demands (faster, better, safer, CHEEPER)
3
2015
Creating the Plan
 IATA User Requirements for Air Traffic Services (URATS)
 ICAO Aviation System Block Upgrades (ASBU)
4
2015
User Requirements for ATS
 Technology roadmap for 2020 and beyond
 Planned, coordinated technology investment and role-out covering:
 Communication
 Navigation
 Surveillance
5
2015
Aviation System Block Upgrades
 Blocks:




0 – Now
1 – from 2018
2 – from 2023
3 – from 2028
 Industry: Future product development (timeously delivery)
 ASNPs/Airlines: Planning, Resource Management and Capital
Investment
 Collaboration with industry partners
6
2015
What are we after?
 Safety
 Access and Equity
 Capacity
 Efficiency
 Environmental sustainability
7
2015
The Perfect Flight.
8
2015
Keys to Success
 “Seamless” airspace





Single African Sky
Civil/military cooperation
Co-ordination
Interoperability
Standardization
 Digitalization
 Data
 voice
 Adaptability
9
2015
Thank you
kirkmanl@iata.org
sfoafi@iata.org
10
2015