There will still be people who remember what a VHS cassette looked like and a few who remember the epic technology war between Betamax, System2000 and VHS. More recently, the Blu-Ray disc won in a similar battle in the consumer electronics field only to face quick extinction as the world moves towards on-line entertainment distribution.… Continue reading ADS-B and MLAT – No technology war
Tag: CONOPS
SESAR’s progress – real achievements, real issues
Exclusive interview with Michael Standar, Chief Operational Concepts and Validation, SESAR Joint Undertaking. Since the inception of the current phase of the SESAR program, we have come to expect regular updates published by the SESAR Joint Undertaking telling the ATM community how things were going. SESAR has introduced a refreshingly innovative way of communicating with… Continue reading SESAR’s progress – real achievements, real issues
Military accepts the idea underlying the business trajectory
One of the most important paradigm shifts in the SESAR air traffic management operational concept of the future is the move from an airspace based approach to a trajectory based one. It would be a bit lengthy to explain the difference here (there will be a blog article on the subject soon) so let it… Continue reading Military accepts the idea underlying the business trajectory
(Before) all else fails… read the Concept! Part 3.
What is TMR? The abbreviation of Trajectory Management Requirements and an item that has been misunderstood in several ways (some quite surprising). Obviously, the CONOPS did not do a very good job of explaining this simplest of elements (mea culpa…). An aircraft flying its 4 dimensional trajectory will do so with an agreed precision and… Continue reading (Before) all else fails… read the Concept! Part 3.
(Before) all else fails… read the Concept! Part 2.
What is a net-centric system? Net-centric, in its most common definition, refers to “participation as a part of a continuously evolving, complex community of people, devices, information and services interconnected by a communications network to optimise resource management and provide superior information on events and conditions needed to empower decision makers.” It will be clear… Continue reading (Before) all else fails… read the Concept! Part 2.
(Before) all else fails… read the Concept! Part 1.
The birth of the SESAR Concept of Operations (CONOPS), perhaps not unexpectedly, was not an easy process. Although SESAR is claimed to be a user-driven project, when the airspace users tried to drive the development of the CONOPS, the road proved to be anything but smooth. Plenty of natural and artificial obstacles had to be… Continue reading (Before) all else fails… read the Concept! Part 1.
Trajectory ownership: dogfight or guiding principle?
Few elements of the SESAR Concept of Operations (CONOPS) have generated more controversy than the idea of trajectory ownership did. Regrettably, the controversy still boils. Some experts dismiss the whole thing as a “political dogfight”, others conduct lengthy debates on how trajectory ownership will work (or not work) in daily operations. They are both on… Continue reading Trajectory ownership: dogfight or guiding principle?