EUROCAE Broadcast #11

EUROCAE BROADCAST EDITION 11 / NOVEMBER 2019

WG-115 - A NEW EUROCAE WORKING GROUP ON COUNTERING UAS (C-UAS)

WG-116 - EUROCAE IS LAUNCHING A NEW WORKING GROUP ON HIGH VOLTAGE

NEW EUROCAE WORKING GROUP ON VTOL: WG-112

SECRETARY GENERAL

Christian Schleifer-Heingärtner +33 1 49 46 19 66 christian.schleifer@eurocae.net

EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT

Elodie Lanniel +33 1 49 46 19 65 elodie.lanniel@eurocae.net

HR AND SUPPORT MANAGER

Raphaël de Courrèges +33 1 49 46 19 70 raphael.decourreges@eurocae.net

DIRECTOR TECHNICAL PROGRAMME

Anna von Groote +33 1 49 46 19 71 anna.vongroote@eurocae.net

DIRECTOR TRAINING AND COMMUNICATIONS, TECHNICAL PROGRAMME MANAGER

Adrian Cioranu +33 1 49 46 19 72 adrian.cioranu@eurocae.net

TECHNICAL PROGRAMME MANAGERS

Anna Guégan +33 1 49 46 19 67 anna.guegan@eurocae.net Sergiu Marzac +33 1 49 46 19 73 sergiu.marzac@eurocae.net

TECHNICAL SECRETARY - EXPERT

Luc Deneufchâtel +33 6 70 70 69 71 luc.deneufchatel@eurocae.net Alain Vallée +33 6 07 52 77 69 alain.vallee@eurocae.net

EUROCAE LIAISON

Alexander Engel +32 2 729 33 55 alexander.engel@eurocae.net

Contents Editorial Secretary General ............................................. 4 Working Group Highlights ................................................. 6 Leadership Summit ..........................................................15 TAC ....................................................................................16 TWP - Technical Work Programme 2020 .......................17 CleanSky cooperation ..................................................18 ICAO Assembly and Standards Round Table ..............19 Stakeholder Engagement Plan .....................................22 Partnership with EUROCONTROL ...................................25 ACI Cooperation............................................................. 26 FAA VoIP Interoperability Event .....................................27 NEW Publications............................................................. 29 EUROCAE Awards............................................................ 31 EUROCAE Trainings .......................................................... 32 NEW Members ................................................................. 34

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M E S S A G E F RO M THE SEC R ETARY G ENER AL

Dear EUROCAE members and friends, I have the pleasure to write to you as EUROCAE’s standardisation footprint is increasing, at the request and to the benefit of our members – and of the wider aviation community. To continue and further contribute to the development of standards fully aligned with all aviation domains/stakeholders, we have launched several new activities since the last Broadcast edition in April this year. In particular, we have re-launched WG-104 SWIM Services and WG-111 Airport – Collaborative Decision Making (A-CDM) and have started three brand-new Working Groups: WG-112 Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL), WG-113 Hybrid Electric Propulsion, and WG-114 Artificial Intelligence and two more are in the pipeline as we write. This is a record in setting up new Working Groups (WG) within one year. Setting up new WGs is always an extra effort for us at the secretariat level, but also a good opportunity to reach out to potential new members, which is also reflected in another year when our membership increased by over 10%.

Internationally, I represented EUROCAE to the ICAO 40th triennial Assembly that was held between 24 September – 2 October 2019 in Montreal, Canada. We should note that 2019 marks also the 75th anniversary of ICAO. EUROCAE, as an ICAO recognised international organisation as well as a recognised Standard Developing Organisation (SDO) enjoyes an official observer status, focusing the activity on the Technical Commission and a number of specific items of the Executive Commission.

Also at the global level, EUROCAE as one of the core members of the ICAO Standards Round Table (SRT) has participated to the 5th meeting of the SRT, which took place during the ICAO assembly. The meeting made very good progress, and EUROCAE together with our colleagues form the other recognised SDOs presented the current and forecasted work programme, identifying areas where ICAO could make more and better use of SDO standards. Strategically, the SRT works on a common standardisation roadmap, maximising the possibilities for work programme alignment and potential future referencing of standards in a collaborative way.

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MESSA GE FROM TH E SECRETA RY G EN ER A L

We have continued the stakeholder engagement plan with High Level meetings, such as with the EUROCONTROL and the CleanSky Joint Undertaking leadership. EUROCONTROL is one of our main partners and contributors to the standard development process. Director General Eamonn Brennan clearly mentioned his expectation, namely that high quality and timely available standards are needed to support EUROCONTROL’s role as Network Manager and would like to see EUROCAE in an even stronger position to fulfil these expectations. EUROCONTROL strengthened the commitment to actively contribute to EUROCAE’s standardisation activities as well as to support with in-kind contribution in different areas. You can read more about EUROCONTROL in our guest article enclosed in this Broadcast edition.

We also met CleanSky, a European Joint Undertaking active in Research and Development for environmentally friendly and sustainable aviation solutions. They are looking for a partner, like EUROCAE, to transform these potential solutions into the industrialisation phase and develop standards in order to support and eventually certify solutions.

Environment being high up on the European agenda, it has found some answers and solutions at EUROCAE too. Not only fuel cells, electric and hybrid power standards are available today or under development, there is a lot more to come and we are ready to expand our activities in order to support achieving the European and global targets. A specific domain was added into our Technical Work Programme, to show our commitment and to pave the way for the next steps ahead.

The RTCA Global Aviation Symposium 2019 provided the forum for EUROCAE to bring to the US audience our perspective, focusing on the changing environment, the growing demand for standards, newcomers to our working groups and the stronger link between industry standards and the regulatory framework.

The Symposium was also the prefect opportunity to renew EUROCAE's commitment of cooperation in the development of joint standards for aviation systems with RTCA, our sister organisation based in Washington, with the signature of an amendment of our MoC.

I am also happy to share with you that the demand for our top quality EUROCAE training is growing. We are also preparing additional courses to be rolled out in 2020 – so stay tuned! We will make the announcement on our website and in the NEWSblog soon. This is an additional reason for you to subscribe to our NEWSblog, if you are not receiving it already.

Our next Symposium will take place on 29-30 April 2020 in Geneva, close to the roots of EUROCAE, and will be hosted by one of our partners and members, IATA. We are thankful to IATA for being the host sponsor for this major EUROACAE event. We look forward to seeing most of you in Geneva, so together we share two days of interactive exchanges on some of the hottest topics in aviation today – and tomorrow.

In conjunction with the Symposium we will hold the 57th EUROCAE General Assembly, on Wednesday 29 April after the Symposium, also at the IATA premises.

I would like to end by acknowledging the invaluable contribution the very dedicated Secretariat team is making to strengthen EUROCAE and to better serve all our members, the Working Groups, and the experts that so generously make happen the standards our industry relies upon.

We are also approaching the end of the year, and we are sending you the 2020 membership dues, our main source of income as EUROCAE. We are thankful to you for your continuous support and financial contribution, which is the bases that we can operate for your benefit, and cope with the continuously growing demand for standards from our community, our members and therefore you.

For now, I wish you happy holidays and most prosperous New Year 2020!

With best regards, Christian Schleifer-Heingärtner Secretary General

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WG-81 Interoperability of ATM Validation Platforms The forthcoming release of ED-147B marks an important milestone for the group.

ED-147A, the current version of the "ATM Validation Platforms Interoperability Specification", was published after four years of effort in April 2017.

It is about to be superseded by the new release ED-147B which will be ready beginning of 2020 for the open consultation process.

Approach (MDA). It describes how the Reference Information Model (RIM), a UML model currently created by means of Sparx Enterprise ArchitectTM, can be converted in the so-called Interoperability Model (IOP Model).

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The IOP Model is the baseline for further conversions allowing the usage of the RIM by various technologies.

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This article aims at highlighting the main changes and achievements, which will come along with the new document.

UPCOMING CHANGES FOR ED-147B Common Communication Language

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Take into account some minor issues raised by the previous ED147-A review

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Merge of UTC and Logical Time Stamps in a single time stamp for BaseObject and BaseMessage classes

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Introduce an new atomic time type counting the milliseconds since 1 January 1970

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Rationalisation of the various geographical data structures to eliminate previous overlaps and inconsistencies

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Redesign of FlightObject and deletion of its supporting messages

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Introduction of the AFTN_IFP message

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Specify a limited mandatory subset of the AIXM features, including a limited set of mandatory attributes for each of them

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Replace the proposed Supplement for Weather definition by a simple specific model extending AIXM

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ED-147B In the scope of ED-147B, the group will formalise the general mapping of interoperability concepts and services for a technology. The technology mapping will be expressed in terms of model-driven engineering (MDA), rules and guidelines.

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Proposed Supplement to ED-147B The proposed Supplement to ED-147B is a new document that will describe how the technology mapping for High Level Architecture (HLA) shall be applied in order to support an implementation of ED-147B.

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For more information and to participate WG-81, please contact Adrian Cioranu adrian.cioranu@eurocae.net.

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WG-112 Vertical Take-off and Landing The Steering Committee of WG-112

Many different designs of Vertical Take-off and Landing (VTOL) aircraft have been successfully developed and tested in recent years. The main purpose of these aircraft is to achieve a new economic and environmentally friendly means of transportation, called Urban Air Mobility (UAM). For UAM operations such as air cargo or on-demand air taxi operations to be authorised in metropolitan areas, VTOL aircraft must first demonstrate that they can be flown safely.

On 2 July 2019, EASA published a VTOL Special Condition (SC) that includes new requirements, compared to the classical Certification Specifications (CS), addressing peculiarities of this category of aircraft, which use combined lift/thrust units. To provide the related guidance to applicants for these new requirements, EASA sought to ensure appropriate participation of European and International Experts through the development of industry standards.

During a joint EASA/EUROCAE Workshop on 6 June 2019, the urgent need for standards to be developed to support SC-VTOL was confirmed following consultation with key stakeholders from industry, airspace users, member states, European institutions and academia.

As a consequence, EUROCAE Working Group 112 was created and held its Kick-off meeting on 27 June 2019.

This activity greatly assists industry in moving forward on current and planned certification programmes and the active involvement of all interested parties is encouraged. An aggressive programme of work is proposed with first deliverables planned to be published before the end of 2019.

EUROCAE enables this ambitious timeframe with the introduction of a lean process, using WG-112 as a pilot project. This lean process should gain valuable time and minimize administrative efforts, whilst still maintaining the high quality and core principles of EUROCAE: Openness, Transparency and Consensus.

With more than 150 members, WG-112 brings together a broad variety of expertise from the major VTOL OEMs, system and equipment suppliers, airports, operators, R&D organisations, academia and authorities from Europe and beyond. The activity is organised around

five main domains of interest: Electrical Systems, Lift/ Thrust, Safety, Flight and Ground Operations. For each domain, a dedicated Sub-Group works on an approved workplan to produce the necessary standards. As a baseline for future activities, a generic Concept of Operations (ConOps) is being drafted. The purpose of this document is to describe and define the characteristics of the operation of a VTOL from the viewpoint of the operator, such as types of operations, operational environment, stakeholders, standard and abnormal operations, together with emergency procedures.

A Steering Committee (SC), bringing together the WG chairs Oliver Reinhardt and Lionel Wallace, the SG leaders, EUROCAE and EASA, convenes regularly to monitor and coordinate the work of the various Sub-Groups and to maintain an overarching view of the activity, its progress and coordination with EASA. The SC also ensures awareness and coordination with relevant international partners to promote global harmonisation.

Volocopter hosted the second Plenary meeting held on 25 September in Bruchsal, Germany. Jan-Hendrik Boelens, CTO of Volocopter, warmly welcomed the Plenary to the meeting: “Volocopter is pleased to have had the opportunity to host the second plenary session of WG-112. It was truly encouraging to see such a large participation, and we look forward to collaborating with EASA and other eVTOL OEMS on setting certification standards for these new types of aircraft. It is an opportunity for competitors to align and bundle resources to progress towards our common goal. At Volocopter, we like to think of this as ‘coopetition’.”

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WG-112 at the Plenary meeting in Burchsal, Germany

WG Co-chair, Oliver Reinhardt opened the Plenary indicating once more that the need for standards to support SC_VTOL was undoubted. The fact that WG112 was recently joined by the CAA New Zealand and the FAA underlined this statement and highlighted the urgent global need for VTOL standards. All subgroups are making good progress, but time is still a key challenge, in order to publish the first documents in a timely fashion. Optimisation of the work to achieve this goal was one of the tasks the SGs considered during this event.

The Volocopter during a test ight in Helsinki

Volker Arnsmeier, representing EASA at the meeting, referred to the EASA priority list and strongly recommended the re-use of as many existing standards as possible, to avoid duplication.

The 3rd Plenary meeting is scheduled for 4th December 2019 and will be hosted by Flying Whales in Paris.

This meeting will offer the opportunity to review the progress on the current programme of work and to address future activities. Of special interest, standards on Vertiport infrastructure and operations will need to be considered to support the introduction of the first VTOL operations, expected as soon as 2024 (e.g. Olympic games in Paris).

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EUROCAE is looking forward to the 10 and 11 December 2019, when the EASA Rotorcraft and VTOL Symposium will take place in Cologne. EUROCAE will be presenting an overview of achievements to date and an outlook on future activities.

The Airbus Vahana VTOL

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An illustration of the Airbus UAM concept

David Solar, EASA/Head of VTOL Department said: “Industry cooperation in the emerging domain of new VTOL technology is essential for its success.

Combining knowledge and resources to set common baselines for this new market is a unique opportunity.

The establishment of standards will provide the means of compliance and guidance materials needed for designs and certification activities.

It requires significant efforts from, industry, associations and authorities, to accomplish the necessary milestones in a tight schedule. Valuable output on operational aspects will also feed the correlated activities for vertiports, ground handling, flight crews, operations, etc.

The VoloPort, a collaboration between Volocopter and Skyports to design and build the world’s first full scale vertiport prototype for showcase in Singapore

EASA highly appreciates and shares the enthusiasm of all those involved in this new field and is committed to contribute to its development and success.”

For more information and to participate to WG-112, please contact Anna von Groote at anna.vongroote@eurocae.net, Alain Vallée at alain.vallee@eurocae.net and Sebastian Reschenhofer at sebastian.reschenhofer@eurocae.net

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WG-113 Kick off meeting of the Hybrid Electric Propulsion group 19 participants joined the kick off meeting of WG-113, with the aim of defining, as a first step, the main areas for industry standardisation in the electrified propulsion area, under the EUROCAE umbrella.

addressing the regulatory framework and means of compliance for these new architectures.

Aviation industry is witnessing a revolution that will see integration of more electricity to power vehicles. This includes drones, VTOL (Vertical Take-Off Landing), STOL (Short Take Off Landing), commuter and even large aircraft.

All these challenges will bring new technologies in the aeronautical industry. These technologies will require standards in order to help industrialisation and certification.

One factor leading this revolution stems from environmental constraints (in order to lower the emissions): studies into the electrification of aircraft propulsion revealed the potential of reducing carbon footprint by 50% between 2005 and 2050.

This step-change in technology / architectures will require new ways of collaborating among airframers, engine manufacturers and system suppliers – and

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Hybrid/Electric Aircraft promise to be one of the enablers in realising ACARE Flightpath 2050 goals.

These new standards will need to be established and written in a short time to respect industrial objective to introduce new certified products on the market in the coming years.

For more information and to participate in WG-113 activities, please contact Adrian Cioranu at adrian.cioranu@eurocae.net

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WG-114 Kick off meeting of EUROCAE WG-114 Artificial Intelligence

The kick-off meeting of WG-114 took place on 27-28 August at EUROCAE premises.

The meeting was very successful, gathering over 30 experts representing all aviation stake-holders:

The working group will evaluate key applications for AI usage within aeronautical systems, with a focus on AI embedded into aerial vehicle and ground equipment. WG-114 will then propose standards for implementation and certification.

Airbus Defence & Space | Airbus Helicopters | Collins Aerospace | Copenhagen Airports A/S | Dassault Aviation | DLR | DFS | Diehl Aerospace | EASA | Elbit Systems Ltd. | Electronic Navigation Research Institute | ENAV SPA | EUROCONTROL | European Defence Agency | Frequentis AG | GMV Aerospace and Defence S.A.U. | Groupe ADP | Honeywell International | Indra Sistemas | Lilium GmbH | ONERA | SAE International | Searidge Technologies | SITTI | Skyguide | STAC | Thales | Thales LAS | Think Research | ZAL Center for Applied Aeronautical Research | etc.

The following deliverables are currently envisaged:

The new WG-114 is positioned to help guiding safe and successful adoption of AI technologies in Aeronautical Systems by developing industry consensus standards within EUROCAE.

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Report on Qualification process of aeronautical systems implementing AI: Statement of concerns; and

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Process standard for Qualification of aeronautical systems implementing AI: Development standard.

For more information and to participate in WG-114 activities, please contact Anna Guégan at anna.guegan@eurocae.net

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WG-115

A new EUROCAE Working Group on Countering UAS (C-UAS) Sighting of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in the vicinity of major airports, and close encounters with aircraft have a high impact on flight safety. Such occurrences regularly lead to the suspension of all flight operations with significant consequences on the airport, airlines and the flying public.

Currently, the air traffic system relies on flight crews or airport personal to detect and report unauthorised UAS activities, resulting in late and inaccurate warnings.

To prevent such disruptions, the airspace around the airport needs to be protected and unauthorised UAS must be detected and reported, at the earliest possible stage, to flight crews, Air Traffic Control and responsible authorities. In accordance with national regulations, neutralisation or disruption of the UAS can then be considered, targeting either the Unmanned Vehicle, the Command & Control Datalink or the Remote Pilot.

Only a few pre-mature technological means of primary surveillance for detection of small UAS are available today and, for those technologies, performance and interface requirements are not prescribed. In addition, existing systems and reporting methods by flight crews or airport personal do not provide enough information to allow follow-up activities, such as the identification and location of the operator by law enforcement. Finally, the use of defeating systems is not globally regulated and their impact on existing aircraft systems, airport and ANSP services might prove unsafe.

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Actions are needed, targeting the detection of unauthorised UAS operations such as (intentional) malicious flight, contingency situations and careless operations. Professional UAS operators can be expected to follow rules and procedures in place to ensure the safe conduct. The implementation of U-space will soon provide a valuable situational awareness capacity about small cooperative UAS operating around airfields or in other controlled environment, such as urban airspaces.

Identified as an urgent need by aircraft operators, airport operators and regulators, the need for a global approach and standardisation support was recognised at political levels as well, as indicated during the EUROCONTROL High-level Workshop (03/04 October) and the EC High-Level International Conference (17/18 October).

Many nations have initiated projects to equip military and civilian airports with a Counter UAS (C-UAS) capacity. IATA is very active in the development of mitigation means to ensure the safe and orderly execution of flight operations. The EASA Counter Drone Task Force released Issue 2 of its report on 5 July 2019, with recommendations on the following topics: education, reporting, risk mitigation and scientific assessment, and global implementation of C-UAS measures. NATO has already launched multiple multinational activities on the same topic, targeting the terrorist, or asymmetric, use of drones on military sites.

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The EUROCAE Technical Advisory Committee identified the standardisation activities that would contribute to the overall C-UAS holistic action plan. Standards would be needed to specify the minimum performance of the surveillance system, interfaces requirements with airport stakeholders and interoperability requirements for the defeat capabilities. A new Working Group was deemed necessary to support safe and harmonised implementation of C-UAS Systems into airport and ANSP systems.

The creation of this new WG on C-UAS was approved by the EUROCAE Council on 25 October 2019.

A Call for Participation was launched by the EUROCAE secretariat to engage with the experts needed for this activity: airlines, airports, authorities, law enforcement, system manufacturers & suppliers, EUROCONTROL, ANSPs, U-space SPs, experts of R&D and economical domains, and all other interested parties with experience in UAS.

«Our common and primary concern are drones flying at low altitudes near airports and helicopter landing sites that could threaten aircraft taking off or landing.»

Manfred A.W. Mohr Assistant Director & SESAR 2020 Technical Manager - IATA

For further information and to participate in WG-115 activities please contact Alain Vallée at alain.vallee@eurocae.net

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WG-116 EUROCAE lauches the High Voltage Working Group Electrical voltages used in the aeronautical industry are standardised at values like 115VAC, 28VDC, 230VAC, 270VDC. With the constant increase of electrical power demand in aircraft and introduction of electrical and hybrid products the tendency to use voltages that are higher than the conventional ones is increasing. When speaking about electrical propulsion this increase in voltages goes up to 3000V (or even higher).

Higher voltages are needed to be used in order to decrease the weight of the wiring and other electrical components. Currently, there are no existing aviation standards for high voltage. No components have been yet developed and qualified for this use and a gap in the standardisation activities is identified to cover these new electrical technologies.

Therefore, in October 2019, EUROCAE Council approved a new working group on High Voltage Systems and Components to define new standards for high voltage systems and components in aircraft.

These standards are needed for the industry and the certification authorities to develop and certify new designs for electrical and hybrid aircraft, where electrical voltages will be much higher than the current standards.

According to the Terms of Reference, the working group will provide 2 deliverables due by Q2/2022:

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A document providing Guidance for High Voltage Systems and Components in Aviation

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A report on standardisation gap analysis

EUROCAE will kick of the WG in Q1/2020.

For more information and to participate in WG-116 activities, please contact Sergiu Marzac at sergiu.marzac@eurocae.net

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LEA D ERSH IP SUM M I T

2019 EUROCAE Leadership Summit

The 2019 edition of the EUROCAE Leadership Summit took place on 3 September 2019 at EUROCAE in SaintDenis. The meeting was attended by 23 participants representing over a third of the Working Groups (WGs), both Chairs and Secretaries, with the participation of the TAC Chair, and the EUROCAE Secretariat.

Christian Schleifer, EUROCAE Secretary General, opened the business by stressing the key elements defining EUROCAE strategy as a membership organisation, the growth and ascending evolution over the past years, and the benefits of the new EUROCAE location.

Amongst the updates, the Secretariat presented the new processes introduced at EUROCAE, the QMS status, while stressing the importance of the increased cooperation and collaboration with the partner organisations and the members' demands for additional standards.

Eric Bouchard, the Chair of the EUROCAE Technical Advisory Committee (TAC), conveyed the “message from the TAC” aiming at improving the overall efficiency of the organisation by a better communication between WGs and TAC. He reiterated the TAC role, which is to advise the Council on technical, operational and, on request, policy matters, while providing recommendations to the Council on the creation and modification of new standardisation activities.

The discussion steered towards the challenges and best practices in WG management, how to best manage joint activities and how to best interface between groups while staying up to date with other WG’s developments.

The meeting ended on a positive note with the commitment of the participants to continuing this fruitful activity next year.

For more information please contact Adrian Cioranu at adrian.cioranu@eurocae.net

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TAC

Technical Advisory Committee Maximising the benefits of ever-closer partnership The Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) is the technical permanent body of EUROCAE. It advises the Council on technical, operational and, on request, policy matters.

It supports the Working Groups through continuous monitoring with the help of the Secretariat.

TAC meets at least 4 times a year.

It is composed of 12 domain specialists, who represent the whole EUROCAE membership. The domains represented at the TAC are the following:

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Regulatory Authority European ATM Organisation Aircraft Manufacturers - Commercial aviation Aircraft Manufacturers - Business aviation Equipment manufacturers - Avionics Equipment manufacturers - Aircraft Non Avionic Equipment manufacturers - Ground Equipment Air Navigation Service Providers Airlines or Airspace Users European R&D community Airports Unmanned Aircraft Systems

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maintaining awareness about technology, regulation, research, products, organisations, operations, and other aspects which potentially impact EUROCAE activities; elaborating each year the update of the EUROCAE Technical Work Programme to be approved by the Council; monitoring Working Groups activities, thanks to the Secretariat who provides the TAC with activity reports, and thanks to the participation of WG leaders in TAC meetings, favouring direct discussions and exchanges between the TAC and the WGs; providing the WG leaders when required, with support on technical issues arising from WG activities, with technical advice for significant changes to WG ToR or with technical expertise about issues arising from published EUROCAE documents… reviewing proposals for new activities or for extension of activities to be submitted to the Council for decision; approving new or revised activities within the scope of the Council-approved ToR; providing the Council or the Secretary General with advice on external partnerships.

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At EUROCAE, the technical expertise of its various aeronautical stakeholders is bundled in the TAC. This helps ensure that prospective work is aligned with EUROCAE members’ interests. An additional benefit stands in representatives of key European aeronautical organisations in TAC (e.g. SJU, EASA, EUROCONTROL) so as to enforce alignment with SES developments in Europe.

The TAC participates as well in the transatlantic alignment of work through the EUROCAE Secretariat and through direct contact with partner SDOs. The TAC is quite a unique establishment. In a nutshell, the strength of TAC for EUROCAE is to focus standardisation work towards the interests and usefulness for its stakeholders, in coordination with external forces and regulatory bodies. Above that, a high quality level of output is assured by thorough discussion in TAC.

For more information about the TAC please visit the EUROCAE website

TECH N ICA L WORK PROGR A M M E

2020 EUROCAE TWP Technical Work Programme

TECHNICAL WORK PROGRAM ME

The Technical Work Programme (TWP) 2020 was approved in October 2019 by the Council. Starting in May 2019, EUROCAE’s Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) performed a detailed review of the Technical Work Programme (TWP). The exercise included brainstorming to anticipate future needs and new areas for standardisation activities to include in the TWP. The TWP 2020 presents current and future EUROCAE technical activities, either already firmly planned or foreseen in the future. Its content is based on the information on the status of on-going technical standardisation activities, anticipated technical standardisation activities to be initiated in the future

by EUROCAE, information from EUROCAE’s partner organisations in Europe and at international level.

THE EUROPEAN ORGANISATION FOR CIVIL AVIATION EQUIP MENT L’ORGANISATION L’EQUIPEMENT DE EUROPEENNE POUR L’AVIATION CIVIL E

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All sections were updated to take into account the current environment and context of the activities and to reflect any foreseen new activities to be launched. In addition, reflecting the ongoing trends and dynamics in the aviation sector, the highlights of this 2020 edition are:

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supporting future regulatory requirements (e.g.

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being recognised as Means of Compliance within the Aviation Safety Regulations

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being used as Means of Compliance (MOC) in support of SES Regulations

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supporting of the deployment of SESAR technical solutions

In the CNS Domain, key new areas were introduced, i.e., new entrants and digitalisation. For the Surveillance subdomain the focus is on performancebased Surveillance and alternatives to conventional systems, with the opportunity to rationalise the ground surveillance infrastructure and also to account for electronic conspicuity. In Navigation, the focus is also on performance-based Navigation, especially on DFMC GNSS and SBAS applications. The perspective of computer vision is introduced for approach and landing systems. The Communication subdomain will concentrate on work resulting from implementing the recommendations of the ELSA-study, as far as EUROCAE will be concerned, and on preparing the standardisation of a new terrestrial component (LDACS) and a SATCOM Datalink, both in the L-Band.

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giving EUROCAE a unique competence in a particular domain.

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In the ATM domain, the airspace architecture study (AAS) and its transition plan will focus on some shortterm improvements, but brings new elements, like virtualisation, resilience, generic Controller Working Position (CWP) and the ATM data service provider (ADSP). EUROCAE standards on digital Voice for ATM (VoIP) are expected to be globalised by ICAO.

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In the Airport Domain, there seems to be more potential for standardisation activities in this domain and work closely with Airports and ACI to identify potential new activities under the umbrella of Total Airport Management (TAM).

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C L E A N S K Y C OO P ER ATI O N

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In the Services domain, to reflect an increasingly service-focused approach, the SWIM services as well as AIS/MET and datalink services have been grouped within one domain. The activities on SWIM in the near future have been outlined by the WG-104 e.g., MET services, A-CDM services and AMAN services. In the medium-term, a (to be created) European SWIM Governance function may influence EUROCAE’s activities in the standardisation of SWIM services.

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In the Security domain, a substantial work programme is foreseen for WG-72. Work will be conducted in close cooperation with RTCA as far as possible. Necessary input from certification authorities has to be awaited.

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In the domain of UAS, General Aviation and VTOL, with the creation of WG-105 and WFG-112, a comprehensive work programme on UAS has been installed for at least the next three years within six Focus Areas. Other newcomers like VTOL and Urban Air Mobility have entered our work programme as well and are also a fast-growing area with a larger need of standardisation activities, complementing the certification frame currently established by EASA.

In the Aircraft Energy Management domain, all standardisation activities which are related to energy management of aviation needs are considered such as Hydrogen Fuel cells, electric and hybrid engines and this area is expected to develop in the near future following the European CO2 reduction and environmental strategy. Additional new activities are expected to develop out of the European Clean Sky R&D programme.

In the Artificial Intelligence (AI) domain, identified as a new domain already in the 2019 TWP, technologies combine the raw computing power of machines with the cognitive power to reason, learn and make decisions. It is recognised as increasingly important in the aviation sector.

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A new chapter 5 was added looking into the future which is presenting a series of new elements that will influence EUROCAE work in several domains for the mid-term/long term. These elements will be distributed to the respective domains when the situation has evolved sufficiently.

The public version of the 2020 TWP will be available on the EUROCAE website

CleanSky Relationship with CleanSky Joint Undertaking On 28 August 2019, EUROCAE Secretary General, Christian Schleifer and Director Technical Programme, Anna von Groote met with high level representatives of the CleanSky Joint Undertaking, Vittorio Selmin and Antonello Marino.

The main objective of the meeting was to understand the CleanSky priorities and challenges and to discuss current relevant standardisation activities and potential for closer cooperation between EUROCAE and the CleanSky programme in the future.

Clean Sky is the largest European research programme developing innovative, cutting-edge technology aimed at reducing CO2, gas emissions and noise levels produced by aircraft.

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Funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme, Clean Sky contributes to strengthening European aero-industry collaboration, global leadership and competitiveness.

Many of EUROCAE’s members are also engaged with the CleanSky programme and there are numerous opportunities for closer engagement, which will be further explored in the near future, to help moving the results of the R&D work performed within the CleanSky programme towards deployment.

For further information, please visit www.cleansky.eu or contact anna.vongroote@eurocae.net.

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ICAO 40th triennial Assembly EUROCAE participation in Montreal On Tuesday, 24 September 2019, the 40th ICAO General Assembly (GA) was opened by the ICAO President Dr Bernard Aliu welcoming around 2500 participants, a new record in attendance. This 40th Assembly took place in the year of the 75th anniversary of ICAO, a specialised agency of the United Nations, with a focus on five strategic objectives: Safety, Capacity and Efficiency, Security and Facilitation, Economic development as well as Environmental protection.

EUROCAE, as an ICAO recognised international organisation as well as a recognised Standard Developing Organisation (SDO) and therefore with an official observer status, attended the meeting, focusing its participation on the Technical Commission and on some specific items of the Executive Commission. This preparation activity for the GA Technical Commission started several years ago. You might remember that the 2nd Global Air Navigation Industry Symposium (GANIS/2) took place in 2017. This was followed by the 13th Air Navigation Conference (ANC) in 2018, and now the results are presented to the General Assembly for endorsement.

The environmental discussion was diverse in nature and lasted until the very last day, when an agreement could be reached, reinforcing the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) as vehicle to compensate for CO2 Emissions.

Commercial flying currently accounts for around 2,5% of the global carbon emissions. On our side, EUROCAE has just recently expanded its activities to address more and better environmentally friendly solutions in aviation to reach European, international and industry set targets to further reduce CO2 emissions and other environment objectives. Aside from the newly established Working Groups on alternative propulsion systems, highly efficient flight paths and routings, modernisation of the ATM infrastructure, EUROCAE stays ready to take on new initiatives, such as those developed by CleanSky Joint Undertaking.

Nearly the same preparation process was used to prepare the safety topics. This includes the initiative we launched at the 13th ANC, when EUROCAE presented a paper on behalf of the “core4” standardisation organisations, ARINC, SAE, RTCA and EUROCAE, to further enhance and make better use of industry standards. Please see also our article about the Standards Round Table (SRT) for more details on that.

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ICAO Standards Round Table The 13th Air Navigation Conference in 2018 gave a clear mandate to the ICAO Secretariat to develop more performance based provisions complemented by industry standards, and to work closely with Standard Developing Organisations (SDOs) to make more and better use of SDO products. The tool to identify potential areas of closer collaborations and where SDOs present their work programme mapping and therefore candidates where ICAO could make good use in their provisions was clearly identified as the ICAO Standards Round Table (SRT).

“ANConf/13 Recommendation 1.3/1 That States and ICAO: b) work collaboratively to adopt a performancebased approach for developing performance requirements and acceptable means of compliance to support the implementation of the Global Air Navigation Plan (Doc 9750, GANP) while considering the need for global interoperability; That ICAO: […] d) continue to explore practical means to make use of international standards, in particular through the Standards Roundtable work with recognized standards-making organizations, to expedite the efficient development of ICAO provisions;”

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We reported in previous articles that we made some adaptations at EUROCAE and at the end of 2017, we signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with ICAO, to provide ICAO access to our standards, which are referenced by ICAO Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs).

EUROCAE, as one of the core members of the ICAO SRT participated also to the 5th meeting, which took place on 25 September 2019, during the ICAO 40th General Assembly. The meeting was chaired by the Director Air Navigation Bureau (D/ANB), Steve Creamer, and attended by five Standard Developing Organisations (SDOs): Arinc, OGC, RTCA, SAE and EUROCAE, the president of the Air Navigation Commission (ANC), Claude Hurley, several technical officers of the ICAO ANB, the FAA, Japan Civil Aviation Bureau (JCAB), EASA and the European Commission, as well as SESAR JU and EUROCONTROL. While at the last meetings we had covered a number of definitions and the different expectations, this meeting made very good progress, as participants went into more details on how and where we can complement each other work. All the SDOs presented their current and partly future work programme and included potential candidates (industry standards) or areas, where we see that ICAO can make good use of SDO products or vice versa.

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This comes very timely to support ICAO under their current budgetary constraints, as we coordinate closer our standard developing activities with ICAO panels for a permanent liaison at secretariat level, to allow for information, ideas and plans to be exchanged.

The participants have also praised our work at EUROCAE to develop and annually publish a Technical Work Programme (TWP). This transparency allows us to strategically plan with partners, as in this case with ICAO, to fill our collaboration agreements with concrete actions, and plan ahead of time to minimize or even completely prevent overlapping activities.

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ICAO Annex 6 (Operations) makes reference to ED-55, ED-56A, ED-112A and ED-155 for different flight recorders or to ED-237 for inflight trigger of ELTs to address the ICAO Global Aeronautical Distress and Safety System (GADSS) initiative.

New potential references were identified by EUROCAE and offered, like ED-250 a MOPS for Runway Overrun Awareness and Alerting System (ROAAS), which would perfectly address the ICAO Global Air Navigation Safety Plan (GASP) for runway safety, or our activities in the area

As a next step, we will work on a common standardisation roadmap, taking each other’s planned activities into account on a very early stage of the process. While the SRTM is the forum for exchanges on the strategic views of the organisations, more systematic interactions are required. In recent times new SDO activities have been setup on matters of interest for ICAO with the focus to maximise the possibilities for work programme alignment, potential future referencing, and cross participation.

A second, joint proposal was brought forward by the European Commission, EASA, EUROCONTROL and EUROCAE, with the buy in of the FAA. This proposal refers to programmes (national or regional) linked or harmonised with ICAO GANP and GASP elements. If there are potential programmes where procedures are already operationally validated, available in packages enabling implementation concepts of operations as well as proposals for drafts SARPs or other ICAO provisions, this can be brought forward to ICAO and entered directly into the SARP developing process at ICAO. The proposal built on the ICAO “camera ready” concept and was therefore well received and widely accepted so the ICAO secretariat will now work on the necessary internal procedures to facilitate validated inputs from existing programmes.

In summary, this SRTM was an extremely positive step forward. At European level, we have demonstrated how constructive and effective our partnership between EC, EASA, EUROCONTROL and EUROCAE is, bringing concrete solutions, supporting and serving ICAO and its member states globally in this collaborative way under the SRT.

of Enhanced, Synthetic and Combined Vision Systems (EVS/SVS and CVS), where ICAO Annex 6 SARPs today already allow for operational benefits, if certified Vision Systems are installed and used. Again, this is only a very limited example of activities out of the many potentials we use and see out of ICAO’s 19 Annexes to the Chicago Convention.

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Stakeholder engagement: Canada As part of our stakeholder engagement plan, which was developed and is annually maintained by the EUROCAE Council and therefore an integrated part of our overall strategy of the organisation, EUROCAE Secretary General Christian Schleifer held a number of bilateral meetings in Canada end of September 2019. He used the opportunity of participating to the 40th ICAO General Assembly in Montreal and extended the stay to visit EUROCAE members and partners in Canada.

EUROCAE, as a recognised international standard developing organisation (SDO), has over the past years further shaped the strategy to become a more globally acting SDO. Thus, we have adapted to meeting these strategic targets through concrete actions, as we welcome and accommodate contributions and members from around the world. One action we took was to make remote participation to Working Groups much easier and thus reduce physical travel needs of the experts. We have automated many of our member and expert services using our IT infrastructure in a way that time zones and distance do not play a determining role. We also see clearly an increase of global participation to our activities, with more than 30% of our members are coming from outside Europe.

Our non-European members are also extremely active, holding leadership functions and being represented in our governing structure. Visiting North America and in particular Canada was therefore essential for us to find out more about current priorities and challenges our members based there are facing.

In 2018, the Canadian aerospace industry contributed over $20 billion in GDP and 160.000 jobs to the Canadian economy, covering several areas of activities, from innovation, science and economic development, to a significant part of the manufacturing sector.

The first stop was at the Canadian Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP), NAV Canada at their Headquarter in Ottawa. NAV Canada is a very active and important member of EUROCAE, participating in several Working Groups, like WG-41 A-SMGCS, WG-59

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FDP Interoperability, WG-67, WG-72 Cyber Security, WG-76 AIS/MET Datalink, WG-104 SWIM, WG-105 UAS, WG-109 Runway Weather Information Systems and WG-111 A-CDM. Presenting EUROCAE’s current and future work programme has revealed additional areas of common interest, where NAV Canada has expertise and sees a way of becoming involved to address some of their current challenges. EUROCAE Secretary General had a very constructive and enriching meeting with NAV Canada experts, learning more about the Canadian priorities of an ANSP covering a

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large airspace and being the gateway to the Atlantic routes between North America and Europe, while discussing the role that EUROCAE standards can play in the many areas of common interest.

The second stop was at Searidge Technologies.

This company develops innovative technology to improve safety and efficiency in the aviation market, with the goal of making innovation operational. With technology at over 35 sites in 20 countries, they are a global leader for Remote Tower and Digital Airport solutions. EUROCAE Secretary General has met a young and innovative team, which is developing and deploying the advanced, virtual airport and tower solutions. Searidge is actively contributing to the EUROCAE standardisation activities in WG-100 virtual towers, and is also co-chairing the newly-launched WG-114 on Artificial Intelligence (AI). Also at this meeting we have identified several areas where we agreed to collaborate much more closely in the near future, to address technologies and solutions that have passed the R&D status and are at the industrialisation phase at Searidge.

Triggered by a recommendation issued for a EUROCAE standard and the annual assessment done by the Transportation Safety Board (TSB) of Canada, EUROCAE Secretary General met with the TSB Director of Investigations/Air and delivered in person our answers to the safety recommendation. The investigation has provided EUROCAE with substantial input to update and revise our standard. It has also allowed us to better understand how to gear our internal process so we can make quicker and better use of such investigation results. We were also pleased to note that TSB’s most urgent aviation safety targets and initiatives matched nearly 100% the activity EUROCAE is currently conducting or has already addressed in its strategic outlook, the Technical Work Programme (see more about the TWP at page 17). EUROCAE and TSB agreed to look into a closer collaboration agreement between the two organisations. Before returning to Europe, at the invitation of the TSB, the EUROCAE Secretary General toured the TSB Engineering lab, which proved extremely interesting and informative, noting how well equipped and capable the lab is to support investigations not only in Canada but also globally.

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Stakeholder engagement: Japan EUROCAE pursued our stakeholder engagement plan and Secretary General, Christian Schleifer and Director Technical Programme, Anna von Groote met with our partners and industry in Japan during a visit to Tokyo.

EIWAC 2019 Exploring Ideas for World Aviation Challenges

The 6th ENRI International Workshop on ATM and CNS (EIWAC 2019) took place on 29 – 31 October.

ENRI is a national laboratory in Japan conducting research and development on ATM and CNS systems, and has been a major contributor to EUROCAE activities over the last years.

The EIWAC 2019 conference was a good opportunity to exchange the latest technical / operational information and innovative research results about ATM/ CNS systems and the discussion centred on continuous and harmonised efforts for the improvement of safety and efficiency of air traffic systems. The EIWAC series has become a major international conference held regularly in Tokyo with more than eighty speakers from all over the world and more than six hundred participants.

Secretary General Christian Schleifer joined a panel on digitalisation in aviation, and discussed with the other panellists from ICAO, RTCA, NASA and JCAB on facing challenges and developing strategies to consolidate different approaches and accompany such technological developments from a standardisation perspective.

In a special speech on the second day of the conference, he addressed the audience and provided information on current and future EUROCAE standardisation activities.

JAXA – SDO Meeting On 1 November, EUROCAE attended a conference organised by JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, to discuss on Emerging Aviation Technologies and Standardisation.

In the aviation domain, JAXA is mainly focusing on promoting research and development of new “environment-friendly” and “safe” technology necessary for future aviation transportation in cooperation with industries, universities, and overseas organisations based on the policy of the Japanese government and social needs.

JAXA recognises that international standardisation is one of the keys of R&D success and therefore organised a whole day of discussion with ICAO, RTCA, SAE and EUROCAE, in collaboration with ENRI. The main focus of the day was to raise awareness of JAXA’s management and researchers to emerging international aviation issue and for the relevance of global standardisation in support of implementing R&D results.

Stakeholder meetings Further stakeholder meetings took place with high level representatives of the Japanese aviation industry to engage and build new partnerships to learn more about Japan’s current aviation policy, status of the CARATS programme, challenges and future work. This year, EUROCAE met with

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EUROCONTROL AND EUROCAE Maximising the benefits of ever-closer partnership SIGNED: Eamonn Brennan, Director General

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In our role of supporting European aviation, having a strong partnership with EUROCAE, the face of European aviation industry standards, is a strategic priority for EUROCONTROL. From the many EUROCAE Working Groups that we participate in, to the EUROCAE Council, Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) and Secretariat, as the Network Manager we rely on EUROCAE’s high-quality, globally recognised standards.

Like EUROCAE, EUROCONTROL also develops standards, in the form of EUROCONTROL Specifications and Guidelines, provided for our Member States and operational stakeholders as called for in our Convention. Thanks to our close cooperation, we are able to ensure that these Specifications and Guidelines are complementary and fully aligned with those produced by EUROCAE and with other Standards Development Organisations (SDOs).

Our Specifications and Guidelines are limited to those areas where we are best suited to respond, in particular in the domain of ATM/ANS, enabling European ATM Network improvements, and in support of interoperability harmonisation projects that address global and pan-European needs. Our process thus complements EUROCAE’s products, which are by industry, for industry. EUROCAE is independent and provides what its members really need; EUROCONTROL’s core strengths as an intergovernmental organisation are impartiality and expertise, partnering with all aviation stakeholders. Our extensive working arrangements enable us to engage hundreds of aviation experts from every sector of the aviation value chain, and result in the development of broad-based Specifications and Guidelines on a wide range of subjects.

As well as contributing extensive expertise to EUROCAE, we are also increasingly making our facilities available to each other. EUROCAE now has an office and meeting facilities they can use at EUROCONTROL’s Brussels HQ, and we have invited EUROCAE to make use of our validation facilities at our Experimental Centre in Paris. As part of a reciprocal arrangement, I very much appreciate EUROCAE’s invitation to use their meeting facilities in Saint-Denis.

Looking to the future, I see an increasing need for standards as there will be less reliance on prescriptive regulation. There will also be much work needed to define the role, type and placing of standards as the future aviation architecture emerges. The need to support regulatory compliance and certification, as the transition from a SES to an EASA framework continues, is also crucial. All of these make our close collaboration – and with other SDOs – vitally important across the standardisation framework if we are to make best use of finite resources and facilities. All SDOs with an input into aviation need to be actively cooperating in such bodies as the EASCG, ECSCG and EUSCG, and beyond. Here, EUROCAE, as Chair of those groups, has a leading role in promoting close working relationships.

Open architecture will probably be based more on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products, so I believe we also need to be open to adapting nonaviation-specific standards where they fit the bill.

But in any case, there will always be a need for aviationspecific standards, notably for operational services, many of which will rely on the unique competences of EUROCAE and its members.

Standardisation, is vital for European aviation and EUROCONTROL will continue to do its best to support EUROCAE in strengthening its reach, its visibility and its autonomy. Together, we will tackle the challenges of standardisation now and in the future, and I look forward to enshrining these in an updated Memorandum of Cooperation.

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EUROCAE at ACI Europe’s 38th Technical, Operations and Safety Committee meeting Following the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding in April 2019, EUROCAE and ACI Europe agreed to join efforts to contribute to the technical work and wider cooperation between the two organisations.

on: Advanced – Surface Movement Guidance and Control System (WG-41); FOD detection systems (WG-83); Runway Weather Information System (WG-109) - which aims at providing support in the implementation of the Global Reporting Format (GRF) for runway surface conditions to help mitigate the risk of runway excursion; and the newly-launched AirportCollaborative Decision Making activity (WG-111).

In addition, the audience was introduced to some other airport-relevant working groups that could support airports to address threats such as noncooperative drones in the airport vicinity and cyber security (WG-72).

Airports represent a key stakeholder of air transportation and the challenges they face today need to be addressed with the right technical solutions to ensure efficient and safe operations.

EUROCAE was invited to participate in the 38th Technical, Operations and Safety Committee (TOSC) meeting which took place on 16-18 October 2019 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

It was a very good opportunity for EUROCAE to present its airport-related work programme and to gather feedback from stakeholder airports on the ongoing activities and useful inputs for potentially new ones.

Sergiu Marzac, Technical Programme Manager responsible for the airport domain at EUROCAE, presented a detailed report on the available standards

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The information was well received and triggered interest of the participants in EUROCAE ongoing work.

Participants agreed that a systematic information exchange between the stakeholders is very important and it will contribute to an efficient use of resources and - more importantly - to benefits for enhancing safe operations.

EUROCAE will continue its cooperation with ACI Europe by contributing to the development of industry standards in support of global and regional interoperability in the airports domain.

If your organisation is interested to join a standardisation activity which covers the airport domain, please visit www.eurocae.net or contact Sergiu Marzac at sergiu.marzac@eurocae.net

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ED-137C in Practice The FAA VoIP Interoperability Event } 60 Engineers and Observer from 19 Countries } 14 Vendors with 20 Products } 10 Observers from ANSPs – “The Users” } Voice Communication Systems (Telephone), Radio, Recorders } All interconnected with each other in the same room } Two weeks of testing, bug-fixing, documenting Organised by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) the purpose of this event was to validate if Revision C of EUROCAE Document ED-137 “Interoperability Standard for VoIP ATM Components” is fit for purpose and if it achieves its goal, namely to describe requirements in a way that systems that were built in line with these requirements can interoperate successfully.

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Volume 1: Radio Volume 2: Telephone Volume 4: Recording Volume 5: Supervision

Together these standards describe the full set of VoIP systems required to implement the communication needs for Air Traffic Management (ATM) applications.

In particular, these systems are used for communication between Air Traffic Control (ATC) Centres (Telephone) and with aircraft (Radio) as well the recording of communication for legal purposes (Recording).

Supervision is required to the management and control of the respective systems.

The purpose of ED-137 is to lay down requirements that allows systems of different types from multiple vendors to interoperate seamlessly. If you want, a true “plug-and-play” implementation. For systems compliant with ED-137 it should not make a difference if they were built by company A or company B and

installed in Country A or Country B. Connecting them via IP simply should get them to “talk with each other”.

This standard provides support to both, the manufacturers (they know what to build) and users (the know what to expect).

The FAA provided in Atlantic City the necessary environment to install those 20 products interconnected via a Local Area Network (LAN). As if this is not enough, the FAA also provided a network monitoring tool, a system emulator (to enable more complex testing scenarios) and the necessary resources to allow installation, configuration, monitoring and recording of the network traffic. A huge contribution by the FAA to ensure that the conditions, under which the tests were executed, were simply perfect. And they were!

Now, pause for a moment to appreciate what this event actually means. 14 vendors were willing to install their products and validate them in full view of their competitors! They were willing to expose their products to the critical eyes of companies usually competing for contracts. They discussed potential solutions in direct communication with other vendors. They were willing to accept failure and expose shortcomings to potential customers. But they were also determined to turn this event into a success by learning from whatever results would be achieved. This in itself is a remarkable achievement of this event.

The test participants executed an elaborate and extensive programme every day. Each evening there was a debriefing session reporting about the achievements of the day but also about issues encountered. After all, this event should also uncover problems in the standard (if any) that prevent systems from interoperating successfully. But, for many

«What sounds like a recipe for disaster was a very successful testing and evaluation exercise: the FAA “Voice over Internet Protocol” (VoIP) Interoperability Event!»

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participants the day wasn’t over at 17:00hrs. Many of them worked well into the night to mitigate system behaviour that was not in line with the expectations, to fix problems and to install new software versions.

Many of the participants put in a lot of overtime to be able to mark “their tests” successful.

observations against the different Volumes of ED137C. This is extremely valuable input as it lists potential shortcomings of the standard derived in an actual “operational” environment. And it can (and will) serve as the basis for work on the standard to correct the issues and improve the overall quality.

And successful they were!

EUROCAE WG-67 has taken this report and discussed it in a meeting on 11 October 2019. The findings of the FAA VoIP Interoperability Event will form the basis of Change Documents to be released for ED-137C that will address the observations and provide mitigations and corrections. Together with the Change Documents, the various Volumes of ED-137C are expected to be standards truly fit for purpose.

In total 97 Test Sessions were run during the two weeks with 1365 test scenarios. Out of these, 1088 test scenarios were completed (59 test scenarios timed out during the two weeks, meaning that they could not be completed). Of the 1088 test scenarios, a mere 5 failed – or, in other words, 1083 test scenarios were completed successfully. A success rate of 99,5%. A truly impressive result!

Now, what does this mean? Well, it means ED137C is good, really good. It proves that the effort spent by EUROCAE WG-67 was well spent.

It proves that the standard is fit for purpose. But it also proves that it is not perfect. It contains (small) mistakes and ambiguities (leading to different interpretations by different manufacturers) – there is room for improvement.

What to do?

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Validation of standards is an important issue.

For each standard the question needs to be raised: How do we ensure that it is fit for purpose.

Not always it is possible to subject a standard to a “live” validation exercise by actually testing systems that were developed in compliance with the standard. Standards Developing Organisations (SDOs) such as EUROCAE built into their process a “Validation on Paper”, for example by submitting the draft documents to Open Consultation by a wide range of aviation stakeholders. But to organise an event were systems that were developed according to an (Interoperability) standard are actually linked together requires a significant amount of resources.

This cannot be done for each and every Standard.

The fact that the FAA Interoperability Event proved the high quality of ED-137C may be special, but it serves as an example for what is possible if the right people put their mind on a subject and follow through.

For more information please contact Alexander Engel at alexander.engel@eurocae.net

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Recent publications EUROCAE Documents (ED) are developed by Working Groups bringing together renowned experts in their area, and following a well-established process. They are often developed jointly with our international partners and recognised worldwide for their high quality and as state of the art technical specifications.

These EDs can be system or equipment performance specifications, safety and performance requirements, interoperability requirements, technical specifications or guidance material. Some documents are dedicated to the airborne side, others to the ground side (mainly CNS and ATM), while others cover common air and ground requirements.

EDs are widely referenced as a means of compliance to regulatory documents by EASA, EUROCONTROL, the European Commission and ICAO.

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You can find all the EUROCAE publications at: www.eurocae.net

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2020 EUROCAE Awards

EUROCAE Standards are developed by Subject Matter Experts that get together in Working Groups (WGs) contributing their expertise to the drafting of the MOPS, the MASPS and the other types of EDs published

by EUROCAE. Like in the previous years, EUROCAE will also in 2020 recognise the outstanding work of those experts that go above and beyond what can be expected from Working Group participants.

AWARDS WILL BE PRESENTED IN THE FOLLOWING CATEGORIES:

The 2020 EUROCAE Awards will again be presented during the Awards Night as part of the 2020 EUROCAE Symposium, organised at Geneva on 29 and 30 April.

Global Harmonisation Award – to a Working Group member that has contributed in an outstanding manner to a joint Working Group with RTCA or SAE.

Lifetime Achievement Award – to a contributor who has shown his dedication to the EUROCAE activities over an extended period of time.

Working Group Leadership Award – to a Working Group Chairperson which has proven to be a successful and efficient leader.

Best Contribution Award – to recognise a single contribution that goes beyond what can normally be expected from a WG Member.

International Award – to a non-European member of a EUROCAE only Working Group.

The nomination process will be launched early in 2020 by addressing all Working Group members requesting them to propose – through the Working Group Leadership - “that” particular Working Group member that deserves special recognition. All nominations will be reviewed by the Awards Committee consisting of a member of the three levels of EUROCAE governance: the Council, the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) and the Secretariat. For the selection of the winner of the “Global Harmonisation Award” they will be joined by a representative of RTCA or SAE.

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Training: Aviation Software Standards Applied to ATM With airborne and ground-based aviation systems increasingly interconnected, the landscape for critical systems software is changing.

} Software safety in ATM/CNS systems: ED-109A } Software safety in ATM/CNS systems: ED-153.

Civil aviation is a sector where critical software components (both air and ground sectors) are increasingly present. Furthermore, new technologies such as e-enabled aircraft, computer-based concepts and new technologies and concepts such as A-SMGCS, APW, ADS-B and drones have changed the safety risk landscape of the aviation system.

At the same time, there is growing demand for guidance and clarification on the way some principles and methodologies are integrated in the lifecycle of critical aviation software systems and components.

} Participants will understand which standard to use

Whether you are an ANSP specifying or accepting a system, the person responsible for system maintenance, or a supplier at the cutting edge of software product development, you will need to understand the standards options available to you, how to apply them, and the impact on costs.

This course takes a practical and interactive approach to the subject matter, drawing on the trainers’ extensive experience in both aviation safety and critical systems software development. Attendees will receive complimentary copies of ED-12C, ED-109A and ED-153.

Benefits of attending

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for what purpose and at what cost implications.

EDs for Aviation Software brought to life with classroom scenarios and exercises.

Instructors are senior advisers on aviation software and experienced trainers.

Sharing experiences with colleagues from other aviation stakeholders/countries.

Extensive course handouts including ED-12C, ED-109A and ED-153.

Certificate on completion of the course Ideal learning environment at EUROCAE HQ in Saint-Denis (Paris area, France).

Course Dates 2020 } } } }

17 - 18 March 23 - 24 June 29 - 30 September 15 - 16 December

AVIATION SOFTWARE SAFETY STANDARDS APPLIED TO ATM

Who should attend?

ANSPs: safety & quality managers, technical department heads, maintenance managers; systems manufacturers and software tools providers: product assurance managers, quality managers, conformity managers, compliance managers, product development managers, technical department managers; aviation software developers from around the world.

Course content } Aviation software context and standards landscape } Software development processes common to

ED-12C, ED-109A & ED-153 } Software safety in airborne systems: ED-12C

ED-12C ED-109A ED-153

ED-201 -

ED-12C

Aeronautical Information System Security

SOFTWARE CONSIDERATIONS IN AIRBORNE SYSTEMS (AISS) Framework Guidance AND EQUIPMENT CERTIFICATION

ED-202A SOFTWARE - Airworthiness Security Process Specification ED-109A INTEGRITY ASSURANCE CONSIDERATIONS FOR COMMUNICATION AND NAVIGATION AND ED-203A SURVEILLANCE - Airworthiness Methods and ANDSecurity AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT Considerations (CNS/ATM) SYSTEMS ED-204 - GUIDELINES Information Security Guidance Continuing ED-153 FOR ANS SOFTWARE SAFETY for ASSURANCE Airworthiness

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Training: Aviation Cyber Security Standards Civil aviation is an increasingly attractive target for cyber-attacks. New technologies such as e-enabled aircraft, new generation CNS/ATM systems and drones are changing the risk landscape of the aviation system.

At the same time, there is growing demand for guidance and leadership in cyber security, where EUROCAE WG-72 has brought a significant technical contribution through four EDs: ED-201, ED-202A, ED-203A and ED-204.

Standards and guidance are proliferating in this space, which makes it potentially confusing for aviation stakeholders to know which is appropriate for what purpose. Guiding people through this maze is a key goal of this NEW two-day training course.

Who should attend?

Anyone working in aviation (airport, ANSP, airline, manufacturing industry) plus regulatory and industrial audiences, who needs to deal with cyber security as part of their day-to-day activities. This includes managerial, technical and operational people. Note that this training is not aimed at beginners nor at existing cyber security specialists who already have an in-depth understanding of the standards landscape.

} Learn best practice on auditing and certification. } Instructor is a leading authority on aviation cyber

security and a certified lead auditor for ISO 27001. } Share experiences with colleagues from other aviation stakeholders/countries. } Extensive course handouts including ED-201, ED-202, ED-203A, ED-204, ED-205. } Ideal learning environment at EUROCAE HQ in Saint-Denis (Paris area, France).

Course Dates 2020 } } } }

10 - 11 March 9 - 10 June 22 - 23 September 1 - 2 December

How to book Trainings Places are limited, so you are advised to book early online here: https://eshop.eurocae.net/trainings-and-other-events For any additional information contact Adrian Cioranu, Director, Training & Communications, Technical Programme Manager at adrian.cioranu@eurocae.net.

Course content } } } } } } }

AVIATION CYBER SECURITY TRAINING

Cyber threats in aviation The current cyber security standards landscape ED-201 concepts and methods Cyber security auditing and certification Airworthiness standards Standards for securing operational technology Future developments

STANDARDS IN PRACTICE 2-DAY TRAINING COURSE: MARCH 10-11. 2020 JUNE 9-10. 2020 SEPTEMBER 22-23. 2020 DECEMBER 1-2. 2020

Benefits of attending } Certificate on completion of the course. } Participants will gain access to the tools and

understanding to use available standards to manage cyber risk in an aviation context in a standards-led way (which in itself brings many additional benefits). } ED-201 brought to life with classroom scenarios and exercises.

ED-201 ED-202A ED-203A ED-204 ED-205

ED-201

AERONAUTICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM SECURITY (AISS) FRAMEWORK GUIDANCE

ED-202A

AIRWORTHINESS SECURITY PROCESS SPECIFICATION

ED-203A

AIRWORTHINESS SECURITY METHODS AND CONSIDERATIONS

ED-204

INFORMATION SECURITY GUIDANCE FOR CONTINUING AIRWORTHINESS

ED-205

PROCESS STANDARD FOR SECURITY CERTIFICATION AND DECLARATION OF ATM ANS GROUND SYSTEMS

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M E M BE RS H I P N E WS

New Members Full members: Abionica Solutions

Spain

Aerospace Qualified Entity

The Netherlands

Amazilia Aerospace

Germany

Blue Avionics

USA

Civil Aviation Authority of NZ

New Zealand

Clue Technologies

Spain

ConsuNova

USA

Cranfield Aerospace Solutions

UK

DAER - Politecnico di Milano

Italy

Lilium

Germany

Luchtverkeersleiding Nederland

The Netherlands

Polish Air Navigation Services Agency

Poland

Saudi Air Navigation Services

Saudi Arabia

Verocel

Poland

Vertical Aerospace

UK

VOLARE

Austria

Volocopter

Germany

Limited members: Aerospace Embedded Solutions

Germany

Atkins

UK

FERCHAU Engineering

Germany

Industrieanlagen-Betriebsgesellschaft

Germany

National Instruments

Spain

Rai Way

Italy

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