Airspace users and navigation service providers use static aeronautical data to receive long term or permanent information such as PERM notice to airmen (PERM NOTAMs), as opposed to dynamic information such as the temporary closure of a runway. This solution addresses the feasibility of providing static and dynamic information in digital form at network level so that it becomes efficiently accessible as a common service to different ATM civil and military systems, reducing duplication across multiple air navigation service providers. Using a common, managed service significantly reduces the overall cost of providing AIM services instead of operating numerous individual national systems.

Implementation of the existing European AIS database (EAD) has brought optimisation, however many ATM domains cannot access the information in EAD directly yet. SESAR is supporting the evolution towards a SWIM integrated scenario in which information exchange is seamless and direct. This solution focuses on the back-end information aspects and offers full SWIM compliance. It has been validated using prototypes provided by industry partners using various architecture options and common service interfaces in a research environment.

The network-consolidated output is an AIXM-compliant dataset whose subsets can be retrieved by individual requests demanding specific geographical areas, attributes or functional features. The successful validation enables industrialisation of the solution in an operational environment, with benefits growing incrementally according to the spread of deployment of the common service. The service provides static and dynamic information in AIXM format, for example providing digital NOTAMs.

The European Commission has mandated that member states implement aeronautical information exchange among a number of ATM sub-functionalities based on initial SWIM (iSWIM) to support digital aeronautical data as an AIXM data set.

The solution is available for industrialisation and has been implemented in Latvia.

BENEFITS

• Increased cost efficiency
• Enhanced security

DATAPACKS

• PJ15-10_Aeronautical_Information_Service_Contextual Note (7) 
• PJ15-10_Aeronautical_Information_Service_CBA_TRL-6_v01_00... 
• PJ15-10_Aeronautical_Information_Service_BM_TRL-6_v01_03_... 
• PJ15-10_Aeronautical_Information_Service_CBA_TRL-6_v01_00... 
• PJ15-10_Aeronautical_Information_Service_HLA_TRL-6_v01_03... 
• PJ15-10_Aeronautical_Information_Service_SDD_TRL-6_v01_00...