About the exercise

This exercise involved an enhanced validation of current flight-planning processes, mainly through increasing interoperability between Flight Operations Centre (FOC) and the Network Manager (NM) operations centre. In particular, it studied the integration of aircraft performance data and 4D profiles in the Integrated Initial Flight Plan Processing System (IFPS).

Results

The exercise allowed for:

• Partial evaluation of the operational feasibility of the extended flight-plan validation process.
• Quantitative evaluation of the potential benefits of new flight-planning procedures and acceptance rate of flight plans, and demonstrating positive impacts on efficiency, safety and cost-effectiveness.
• Identification of issues that need to be addressed prior to implementation.