IFAV

IFAV – Increased Flexibility in ATCO Validations

The project aims to develop new strategies to reduce the effort spent to obtain and maintain a unit endorsement on a specific sector or sector group in the en-route upper airspace. The project includes 2 separate solutions, both of them targeting TRL6 levels.
Solution 1 has two separate threads of work with the first one targeting TRL6 level. This thread envisages four different strategies (listed below) for achieving the proposed goal:

• IFAV tool support and adjusted ATC procedures,
• Smart Competency monitoring and minimum competency level prediction,
• Smart sector groupings, and
• Common Unit Competence Scheme framework

The second thread is looking to investigate the role of the human-machine collaboration for increased levels of automation required for a Generic Controller Validation. This thread is looking to develop a set of automation tools targeting TRL2 levels.
Solution 2 of the project is aiming to assess the validity of the IFAV concept in the context of the Remote Tower Centre operations.