1. An Airline Perspective
ATN 2000
FANS-1
An Airline Perspective

2. Airline Perspective
BUILD
ON THE
FANS-1
FOUNDATION
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3. FANS-1 Value FANS-1 has added great value to United Airlines
NOT a great deal of $…...
YET!
Constrained by delays in ground systems
The value is:
Knowledge
Experience
Learning to Change
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4. FANS-1 Status FANS-1 is: A work in progress
Creating operational improvements & increasing safety
Expanding world-wide
Setting the stage for the next generation CNS/ATM advances
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5. Lessons Learned
FANS is a major cultural shift for all people involved.
Extended training is essential.
Human Factors issues must receive much more attention.
Implementation coordination is necessary.
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6. Lessons Learned continued
A single standard is needed for Communications & Navigation displays & inputs across cockpits & controller work stations.
Now there are more than 16 standards for describing Lat./Long.
We have various permutations for flight identification (call sign).
Different protocols are now required for various cockpit applications.
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7. Example: location ambiguity
Actual CPDLC message:
“CROSS 0100S AT AND MAINTAIN FL350 REPORT REACHING FL350”
Later received:
“VERIFY YOULL BE CROSSING 01 SOUTH AT 350 FOR TRAFFIC”
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8. Example: multiple protocols
Various flight identifications:
UA123
UAL123
UA0123
UAL0123
UA 123
UAL 0123
ET CETERA
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9. Lessons Learned continued
Schedules must be realistic and better managed.
Be prepared to manage failures.
The industry business bias must change from favoring the old to encouraging the new.
Remember the customer -- The traveling/shipping public.
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10. Looking Forward SEAMLESS OPERATIONS
Objectives of the Future Air Navigation System
Safety Improvements
Capacity expansion
Efficiency Gains (Financial & Environmental benefits)
SEAMLESS OPERATIONS
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11. Looking Forward continued
Some specific ATN objectives
Reduce pilot/controller workload
Reduce voice channel congestion
Enhance cockpit and control sector coordination
- RTCA DO250 January 11, 2000
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12. Looking Forward continued
In the excitement of implementation
DO NOT LOOSE SIGHT OF THE OBJECTIVES
as occasionally happened with FANS-1.
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13. Looking Forward continued
During the transition phase “Classic”, FANS-1/A and 2nd Generation CNS/ATM (ATN) aircraft must be accommodated.
Don’t forget the SEAMLESS objective.
Create a system which will easily accommodate changes.
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14. Looking Forward continued
United is equipping for ATN
New delivery aircraft (Airbus & Boeing) now being delivered with digital capable radios.
All B-777s and latest A-319/320s provisioned for ATN
Participating in PETAL-II
Plan to participate in FAA’s CPDLC Build 1-A
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15. Looking Forward continued
More compelling business cases are needed to justify costly retrofit phases:
VDL-2 AoA
VDL-2 ATN
CPDLC via VDL-2 ATN
Other initiatives must be considered
e.g. Voice & Data via VDL-3
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16. Looking Forward continued
United policy is to attain the benefits of FANS-1/A now.
We are engaged in the development of the next generation CNS/ATM systems.
We look forward to serving our customers with “Free Flight” at the earliest opportunity.
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17. Airline Perspective
Why?
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18. Airline Perspective
Cooperation in the use of the world’s airspace is essential to meeting the needs of the traveling / shipping public.
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19. Airline Perspective
Safe, fast, affordable, dependable transportation of people and goods will soon become impossible to deliver because of gridlock or (worse) government rationing.
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20. Airline Perspective
“Communications is a essential element of our business. We never made the base case for radios… If you want to be in the airline business in the future, I think you’d better get ready for data link.”
-- Robert Baker, EVP Operations,
American Airlines
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21. Airline Perspective
We at United Airlines encourage all aviation industry stakeholders to join with those of us who are building on FANS-1/A to create the next generation of worldwide
Air Traffic Systems.
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22. Airline Perspective
ATN 2000
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23. Contact Information
Tom Holford
Sr. Staff Representative -- Technical Operations
United Airlines Flight Center
7401 Martin Luther King Blvd.
Denver, Colorado
Phone:
Fax:
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