Context

Related Elements

NAV12

• #113

• AOM-0810

B1

• B1-APTA

Applicability Area(s) and Timescales

Applicability Area 1:

All EU SES States except: Maastricht UAC. Plus: United Kingdom

(EU SES States)

Applicability Area 2:

Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey, Ukraine

(Other ECAC+ States not listed in Applicability Area 1)

Links to SESAR Solutions

Code	Title	Program	Related Elements	Analysis
#113	Optimised low-level instrument flight rules (IFR) routes for rotorcraft	SESAR1		Analysis

Links to PCP ATM Sub-Functionalities

References

Applicable legislation

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1048 of 18 July 2018 laying down airspace usage requirements and operating procedures concerning performance-based navigation

Applicable ICAO Annexes and other references

None

Deployment Programme 2019

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Operating Environments

Terminal Airspace

En-Route

Expected Performance Benefits

Safety

Improved through airspace de-confliction of low altitude airways. It can provide more visibility into planning of those sectors (up-stream sectors) where the ATCO is arranging the arrivals sequence.

Capacity

The point-in-space procedures have the potential to enable an increasing of passenger throughput at medium and large airports, removing IFR rotorcraft from active runways (no low performance/low speed movements into the approach sequence to runway).

Operational efficiency

Improved through:
- Reduced track mileage, resulting in less fuel consumption and associated CO2 emissions;
- Enhanced transition from the en-route phase (flying the Low Level IFR routes) to the approach phase (e.g Point In Space IFR rotorcraft procedures) to the final approach and take-off area (FATO) and vice versa;
- More direct routing in dense terminal airspace (obstacle-rich or noise-sensitive terminal environment).

Cost efficiency

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Environment

Reduced track mileage, resulting in less fuel consumption and associated CO2 emissions.

Security

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