FANS-1/A involvement and future FLIGHT OPERATIONS TECHNOLOGY Innovations in flight Captain Joe Burns Director – Flight Operations Technology.
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Slide 1
FANS-1/A involvement and future
FLIGHT
OPERATIONS
TECHNOLOGY
Innovations in flight
Captain Joe Burns
Director – Flight Operations Technology
Slide 2
FANS as a building block
• United Airlines pleased with FANS
experience
• Would like to see worldwide expansion
• FANS-1 a first step in long journey to
airspace improvement!
FLIGHT
OPERATIONS
TECHNOLOGY
United Airlines - FANS-1/A involvement and future
Innovations in flight
2
Slide 3
FANS-1 Value to United
• Core knowledge of what technologies and
procedures work – key in moving forward!
• Experience, acceptance, and even reliance
for our flight crews and dispatchers
• Change to the traditional ATC “paradigm”
• No significant $ savings yet, but increasing
opportunities for savings
FLIGHT
OPERATIONS
TECHNOLOGY
United Airlines - FANS-1/A involvement and future
Innovations in flight
3
Slide 4
FANS Expansion
• Long standing CPDLC/ADS operations:
– Pacific
– Australia, NZ, Tahiti, Japan
• New operational entrants:
– North Atlantic
– Canadian Northern, Iceland, China, India, Iran
• Coming soon..
– Gander CPDLC, Shanwick?, NYC,…
– South America (at least in RNAV
implementation
FLIGHT
OPERATIONS
TECHNOLOGY
• Airline benefits – Requests and Clnc faster!
United Airlines - FANS-1/A involvement and future
Innovations in flight
4
Slide 5
FANS Lessons learned
• Major cultural shift from
HF/Reporting/ATC
• Extended training required!
• Human Factors far more important than
envisioned
• Implementation coordination essential!
• Success so far? – our crews initially
rejected, now cannot live without!
• Leadership from Boeing/Brad Cornell;
FLIGHT
Europe/Rob Mead for ATN
OPERATIONS
TECHNOLOGY
United Airlines - FANS-1/A involvement and future
Innovations in flight
5
Slide 6
FANS Lessons learned/2
• Single standard for all CNS/ATM in both
flight decks and workstations
– Ex: more than 16 standards for LAT/LONG
– Call Signs
• Different protocols now required for
various cockpit applications
FLIGHT
OPERATIONS
TECHNOLOGY
United Airlines - FANS-1/A involvement and future
Innovations in flight
6
Slide 7
FANS Lessons learned/3
• Installation schedules must be better
managed.
• Must be prepared for contingencies
• Industry bias must support new vs. old
• Remember the paying customer..
• Other mechanisms must be used to
encourage expansion
FLIGHT
OPERATIONS
TECHNOLOGY
United Airlines - FANS-1/A involvement and future
Innovations in flight
7
Slide 8
Single Standard examples:
• Actual messages for same directive:
– CROSS 100S AT AND MAINTAIN FL350, REPORT
REACHING 350
– VERIFY YOULL BE CROSSING 01 SOUTH AT 350 FOR
TRAFFIC
• Other example from Center:
– CTAM 350
– Meaning “Climb To And Maintain FL 350”
– Our crews are not trained in this acronym!
FLIGHT
OPERATIONS
TECHNOLOGY
United Airlines - FANS-1/A involvement and future
Innovations in flight
8
Slide 9
Multiple protocol examples:
• Flight ID’s
–
–
–
–
–
UA123
UAL123
UA0123
UA 123
UAL 0123
• Current ADS trials in Atlantic
– Crews signing on as ADS but still making HF voice
reports!
FLIGHT
OPERATIONS
TECHNOLOGY
United Airlines - FANS-1/A involvement and future
Innovations in flight
9
Slide 10
Looking Forward:
•
•
•
•
•
Seamless Worldwide operations
Global Harmonization
Standard Procedures
Improved Human Factors
We must change the “old way is good
enough” way of doing business
• Reduce pilot/controller workload
• Reduce voice channel congestion
• Enhance Pilot/Control sector coordination
FLIGHT
OPERATIONS
TECHNOLOGY
United Airlines - FANS-1/A involvement and future
Innovations in flight
10
Slide 11
Looking Forward/2:
• No change for change’s sake
• During transition from FANS-1 to
CNS/ATM-1
• Seamless Airspace transition
• United equipping for ATN (new delivery)
• Current participation in PETAL II
• Potential participation in CPDLC 1/A
FLIGHT
OPERATIONS
TECHNOLOGY
United Airlines - FANS-1/A involvement and future
Innovations in flight
11
Slide 12
Looking Forward/3:
• More compelling business cases for
retrofits
–
–
–
–
VDL/2 – AOA
VDL/2 – ATN
CPDLC on VDL/2 ATN
VDL/3?
• UAL looking forward to working with
development of CNS-ATM and Free Flight
FLIGHT
OPERATIONS
TECHNOLOGY
United Airlines - FANS-1/A involvement and future
Innovations in flight
12
Slide 13
FANS in CPDLC Build 1/A:
• Significant amount of FANS Aircraft:
– All US DOD Aircraft
– UAL – All B747-400’s, All 777’s
– A330’s, A340’s
• ATN Aircraft equipage:
– 24 AA Domestic B737 Aircraft
– 4 AA International 767’s
– 2 other European Aircraft
FLIGHT
OPERATIONS
TECHNOLOGY
United Airlines - FANS-1/A involvement and future
Innovations in flight
13
Slide 14
FANS in CPDLC Build 1/A, cont.:
• Dual Stack issue
– Needs gateway -> DLAP ->FANS
• Not seen as being ATN compliant
• Less cost for installation, easier cost-benefit
analysis
• PETAL II – demonstrated feasibility
• Latency – VDL/2 tests
• NATCA concerns
• ATN flight deck interface
– B-777, B747-400, A320-DCDU
FLIGHT
OPERATIONS
TECHNOLOGY
United Airlines - FANS-1/A involvement and future
Innovations in flight
14
Slide 15
Concept of Future ATSP:
• Controller will have full “electronic
visibility” of airspace
• Airspace managed by Minimum Required
Performance for CNS. All aircraft
required to be at this level
• All Aircraft will be free to maneuver as
long as intentions are communicated
• Controller’s workstation includes conflict
probe capability
• In emergency, A/C position to be
determined within min. RNP standards
FLIGHT
OPERATIONS
TECHNOLOGY
United Airlines - FANS-1/A involvement and future
Innovations in flight
15
Slide 16
Why FANS and ATN?
• Cooperation in the use of the world’s
airspace is essential to meeting future
growth needs of the public travel sector
• Safe, efficient transportation getting
harder to deliver in gridlock due to max'dout older systems and policies
• UAL encourages all in industry to join
those of us in expanding FANS and beyond
to create the next generation of Air
Traffic Systems
FLIGHT
OPERATIONS
TECHNOLOGY
United Airlines - FANS-1/A involvement and future
Innovations in flight
16
Slide 17
Contact Information:
Captain Joe Burns
Director – Flight Operations Technology
United Airlines
7401 E. Martin Luther King Blvd.
Denver, Colorado, USA 80207
DEN (303) 780-5178
ORD (847) 700-4166
[email protected]
FLIGHT
OPERATIONS
TECHNOLOGY
United Airlines - FANS-1/A involvement and future
Innovations in flight
17
Slide 18
Questions?
Slide 19
FANS-1/A involvement and future
FLIGHT
OPERATIONS
TECHNOLOGY
Innovations in flight
Captain Joe Burns
Director – Flight Operations Technology
Slide 2
FANS as a building block
• United Airlines pleased with FANS
experience
• Would like to see worldwide expansion
• FANS-1 a first step in long journey to
airspace improvement!
FLIGHT
OPERATIONS
TECHNOLOGY
United Airlines - FANS-1/A involvement and future
Innovations in flight
2
Slide 3
FANS-1 Value to United
• Core knowledge of what technologies and
procedures work – key in moving forward!
• Experience, acceptance, and even reliance
for our flight crews and dispatchers
• Change to the traditional ATC “paradigm”
• No significant $ savings yet, but increasing
opportunities for savings
FLIGHT
OPERATIONS
TECHNOLOGY
United Airlines - FANS-1/A involvement and future
Innovations in flight
3
Slide 4
FANS Expansion
• Long standing CPDLC/ADS operations:
– Pacific
– Australia, NZ, Tahiti, Japan
• New operational entrants:
– North Atlantic
– Canadian Northern, Iceland, China, India, Iran
• Coming soon..
– Gander CPDLC, Shanwick?, NYC,…
– South America (at least in RNAV
implementation
FLIGHT
OPERATIONS
TECHNOLOGY
• Airline benefits – Requests and Clnc faster!
United Airlines - FANS-1/A involvement and future
Innovations in flight
4
Slide 5
FANS Lessons learned
• Major cultural shift from
HF/Reporting/ATC
• Extended training required!
• Human Factors far more important than
envisioned
• Implementation coordination essential!
• Success so far? – our crews initially
rejected, now cannot live without!
• Leadership from Boeing/Brad Cornell;
FLIGHT
Europe/Rob Mead for ATN
OPERATIONS
TECHNOLOGY
United Airlines - FANS-1/A involvement and future
Innovations in flight
5
Slide 6
FANS Lessons learned/2
• Single standard for all CNS/ATM in both
flight decks and workstations
– Ex: more than 16 standards for LAT/LONG
– Call Signs
• Different protocols now required for
various cockpit applications
FLIGHT
OPERATIONS
TECHNOLOGY
United Airlines - FANS-1/A involvement and future
Innovations in flight
6
Slide 7
FANS Lessons learned/3
• Installation schedules must be better
managed.
• Must be prepared for contingencies
• Industry bias must support new vs. old
• Remember the paying customer..
• Other mechanisms must be used to
encourage expansion
FLIGHT
OPERATIONS
TECHNOLOGY
United Airlines - FANS-1/A involvement and future
Innovations in flight
7
Slide 8
Single Standard examples:
• Actual messages for same directive:
– CROSS 100S AT AND MAINTAIN FL350, REPORT
REACHING 350
– VERIFY YOULL BE CROSSING 01 SOUTH AT 350 FOR
TRAFFIC
• Other example from Center:
– CTAM 350
– Meaning “Climb To And Maintain FL 350”
– Our crews are not trained in this acronym!
FLIGHT
OPERATIONS
TECHNOLOGY
United Airlines - FANS-1/A involvement and future
Innovations in flight
8
Slide 9
Multiple protocol examples:
• Flight ID’s
–
–
–
–
–
UA123
UAL123
UA0123
UA 123
UAL 0123
• Current ADS trials in Atlantic
– Crews signing on as ADS but still making HF voice
reports!
FLIGHT
OPERATIONS
TECHNOLOGY
United Airlines - FANS-1/A involvement and future
Innovations in flight
9
Slide 10
Looking Forward:
•
•
•
•
•
Seamless Worldwide operations
Global Harmonization
Standard Procedures
Improved Human Factors
We must change the “old way is good
enough” way of doing business
• Reduce pilot/controller workload
• Reduce voice channel congestion
• Enhance Pilot/Control sector coordination
FLIGHT
OPERATIONS
TECHNOLOGY
United Airlines - FANS-1/A involvement and future
Innovations in flight
10
Slide 11
Looking Forward/2:
• No change for change’s sake
• During transition from FANS-1 to
CNS/ATM-1
• Seamless Airspace transition
• United equipping for ATN (new delivery)
• Current participation in PETAL II
• Potential participation in CPDLC 1/A
FLIGHT
OPERATIONS
TECHNOLOGY
United Airlines - FANS-1/A involvement and future
Innovations in flight
11
Slide 12
Looking Forward/3:
• More compelling business cases for
retrofits
–
–
–
–
VDL/2 – AOA
VDL/2 – ATN
CPDLC on VDL/2 ATN
VDL/3?
• UAL looking forward to working with
development of CNS-ATM and Free Flight
FLIGHT
OPERATIONS
TECHNOLOGY
United Airlines - FANS-1/A involvement and future
Innovations in flight
12
Slide 13
FANS in CPDLC Build 1/A:
• Significant amount of FANS Aircraft:
– All US DOD Aircraft
– UAL – All B747-400’s, All 777’s
– A330’s, A340’s
• ATN Aircraft equipage:
– 24 AA Domestic B737 Aircraft
– 4 AA International 767’s
– 2 other European Aircraft
FLIGHT
OPERATIONS
TECHNOLOGY
United Airlines - FANS-1/A involvement and future
Innovations in flight
13
Slide 14
FANS in CPDLC Build 1/A, cont.:
• Dual Stack issue
– Needs gateway -> DLAP ->FANS
• Not seen as being ATN compliant
• Less cost for installation, easier cost-benefit
analysis
• PETAL II – demonstrated feasibility
• Latency – VDL/2 tests
• NATCA concerns
• ATN flight deck interface
– B-777, B747-400, A320-DCDU
FLIGHT
OPERATIONS
TECHNOLOGY
United Airlines - FANS-1/A involvement and future
Innovations in flight
14
Slide 15
Concept of Future ATSP:
• Controller will have full “electronic
visibility” of airspace
• Airspace managed by Minimum Required
Performance for CNS. All aircraft
required to be at this level
• All Aircraft will be free to maneuver as
long as intentions are communicated
• Controller’s workstation includes conflict
probe capability
• In emergency, A/C position to be
determined within min. RNP standards
FLIGHT
OPERATIONS
TECHNOLOGY
United Airlines - FANS-1/A involvement and future
Innovations in flight
15
Slide 16
Why FANS and ATN?
• Cooperation in the use of the world’s
airspace is essential to meeting future
growth needs of the public travel sector
• Safe, efficient transportation getting
harder to deliver in gridlock due to max'dout older systems and policies
• UAL encourages all in industry to join
those of us in expanding FANS and beyond
to create the next generation of Air
Traffic Systems
FLIGHT
OPERATIONS
TECHNOLOGY
United Airlines - FANS-1/A involvement and future
Innovations in flight
16
Slide 17
Contact Information:
Captain Joe Burns
Director – Flight Operations Technology
United Airlines
7401 E. Martin Luther King Blvd.
Denver, Colorado, USA 80207
DEN (303) 780-5178
ORD (847) 700-4166
[email protected]
FLIGHT
OPERATIONS
TECHNOLOGY
United Airlines - FANS-1/A involvement and future
Innovations in flight
17
Slide 18
Questions?
Slide 19