About this exercise:

The flight trials, which are planned to take place in the Toulouse and Rome approach environments, will validate two additional ASAS S&M manoeuvres to increase synchronisation of traffic in a TMA, namely “vector then merge” and “follow route then merge”. The exercise will also assess the correlated benefits for controllers and pilots. Air traffic controllers will use TBS to calculate the actual and predicted headwind and the target runway throughput, as well as to initiate the appropriate manoeuvres.

Expected outcomes:

• An increase in controllers' efficiency per flight due to greater automation
• Increased safety and better situational awareness of flight crew during the arrival sequence
• Improved runway throughput thanks to TBS, which ensures an optimised traffic sequence in strong headwind conditions.