The AIS and MET information provided to pilots and dispatchers as pre-flight briefing products and services needs to become more user-friendly: easier to understand, better prioritised, with the aim to improve the pilot awareness and to reduce the workload. Traditionally, the pre-flight briefing takes the form of a “Pre-flight Information Bulletin (PIB), which may comprise up to 30-40 pages of NOTAM messages, all in upper case. Filtering and prioritisation are significantly limited by the free text nature of the NOTAM message. MET messages may be embedded in textual format as well, while weather maps are presented separately.
This implementation objective consists of an innovative approach to pilot briefing through the use of digital aeronautical data, in particular Digital NOTAM (encoded as “events” in AIXM format), and digital MET data (METAR, TAF, SIGMET in the ICAO iWXXM format). The AIS and MET information provided to pilots and dispatchers in the form of digital briefing products and services, will be merged (joint) with the geographical and planned flight trajectory information, and presented (visualised) in a graphical way.
The digital integrated briefing will introduce the following key changes:
- generation of the briefing products from digital aeronautical data (in particular from Digital NOTAM) instead of providing a list of NOTAM messages;
- extensive graphical presentation of the information that affects elements that are usually displayed on aeronautical maps (taxiway/runway/apron closures, navaids unserviceable, temporary obstacles, airspace restrictions, etc.);
- use of normal sentence case for the textual/tabular part of the briefing;
- joint presentation of the aeronautical and MET events that may have a combined effect on the flight trajectory (such as airspace restrictions and significant weather);
- the possibility for interactive briefing, thus allowing the pilot/dispatcher to highlight/prioritise information that is more relevant for each individual flight.
The digital integrated briefing is currently targeted for ground use (FOC/WOC, pre-flight briefing rooms and ARO offices). Some enablers (Digital NOTAM and digital MET data) support the use in the cockpit, in all phases of flight, while enablers for transmission into the cockpit are not yet mature (see IS-0206 Digital Integrated Briefing during flight execution phase).
NOTE: The following implementations like ‘Digital Aeronautical Data’, ‘Aeronautical Data Quality’, ‘Digital NOTAM’ are seen as prerequisite to the successful implementation of this INF09 objective. Their maturity/availability should be analysed before making INF09 an Active objective.
NOTE FOR MILITARY AUTHORITIES: It is the responsibility of each military authority to review this Objective IN ITS ENTIRETY and address each of the SLoAs that the military authority considers RELEVANT for itself. This has to be done on top and above of the review of "MIL" SLoAs which identify actions EXCLUSIVE to military authorities.
Code | Title | IOC | FOC | Related Elements |
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IS-0205 | Digital Integrated Briefing for pre-flight phase | 31-12-2023 | 31-12-2030 |
Code | Title | Program | Related Elements | Analysis |
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#34 | Digital Integrated Briefing | SESAR1 | Analysis |
Title | Related SLoAs |
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<Publisher> - Specification for the provision of Digital NOTAM (INT01) / EUROCONTROL Specification for Digital NOTAM |
ASP02, NM01 |
SJU - SESAR Solution 34: Data Pack Digital integrated briefing https://www.sesarju.eu/sesar-solutions/digital-integrated-briefing |
ASP02, NM01 |