The ability to establish a collaborative environment within ATM and to move to Trajectory Based Operations depends on the sharing, between all operational stakeholders, of a similar picture of an environment in which flights operate. It requires a wide range of meteorological information to be shared and made available simultaneously to all ATM actors with minimum delay.

This implementation objective is addressing the Aerodrome Meteorological information Service. The certified MET service provider for the aerodrome will be those which are selected by the relevant competent authority. There may be more than one selected MET service provider for an aerodrome. As a minimum, the aerodrome MET service provider will execute the tasks related to the aerodrome meteorological office, as defined in chapter 2 of Annex 5 to (EU) 2017/373).

The aerodrome MET service provider(s) will liaise closely with the operational stakeholders at the aerodrome to determine and help define the local needs and requirements for MET information support, specific to that aerodrome. This may (for example) focus on unique weather constraints such as fog, snow, convection etc, or on particular operational constraints such as aerodrome capacity, winter procedures, noise abatement procedures, etc., and their dependency on weather. Services could include only MET information e.g. to be used as input into another system or decision process, or visualisation of information critical to aerodrome operations. Ideally, services will integrate MET information with other types of aerodrome information, as driven by local requirements.

NOTE: For a full description of the services as well as of the associated system requirements, see the Family 5, in the SESAR Deployment Programme edition 2022, Approved by the European Commission.

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.

Edition

2022

Stakeholders

Air Navigation Service Provider / Airport Operator / Network Manager

Type

CP1

Scope

EU

Status

Active