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SESAR Program Plans Flight Tests of New Procedures

AIN AIR TRANSPORT PERSPECTIVE » NOVEMBER 19, 2012

by  BILL CAREY

UK-based carrier easyJet participates with 15 other airlines in European flight trials scheduled to begin in 2013 to test new air traffic management procedures and technologies. (Photo: easyJet)

November 19, 2012, 9:35 AM

Airbus and its air traffic management subsidiaries, together with systems integration company EADS Cassidian, said they will participate as industry partners in seven European flight trials set to begin early next year through 2014 under the direction of the Single European Sky ATM Joint Undertaking (SesarJU).

The so-called “integrated flight trials and demonstration activities” involve multiple aircraft types and flight environments. The Sesar JU is conducting them as part of the Atlantic Interoperability Initiative to Reduce Emissions (AIRE), a cooperative program of the European Commission and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration. In its call for proposals, the Sesar JU, an administrative body based in Brussels, said it allocated €2.5 million ($3.2 million) to co-finance the trials.

In 2010, under an earlier phase of the AIRE program, the Sesar JU funded 18 separate projects involving 14 airlines. Sixteen airlines participate in the current phase, along with air navigation service providers Enav of Italy, Lfv of Sweden, Dsna of France, Aena of Spain, UK Nats and Nav Canada.