About this exercise:

Using real-time simulation, this exercise in Vienna will validate whether the provision of Digital NOTAM (Notice to Airmen) and digital MET data can enhance electronic pre-flight information bulletin services (ePIB) with a view to improving information transfer.

It will also assess whether ePIB that contain Digital NOTAM and Digital MET data can:

• Assist pilots in creating a mental map of the status and condition of the airports, airspace and the Communications, Navigation, Surveillance (CNS) environment, as relevant for their flight
• Reduce risks of misunderstood or missed information in the pre-flight briefing phase;
• Increase the pilots’ confidence that all the information required for pre-flight briefing was seen and understood
• Facilitate an enhanced filtering mechanism that can be customised based on pilot needs (such as trajectory-based filtering, time-based filtering) and to prevent information overflow.

Expected outcomes:

• Improved efficiency of information transfer to pilots
• Improvements in the quality of information transferred by reducing irrelevant notifications
• Reduction in the risk of misinterpretation of messages by pilots thanks to machine interpretable NOTAM
• Increased satisfaction experienced by pilots, dispatchers and other users when retrieving and browsing ePIB information.