ACI EUROPE and EUROCAE sign a MoU

26 April, Toulouse, France

EUROCAE and ACI EUROPE are strengthening their cooperation for the benefit of airports and the wider aviation community worldwide. The technical challenges faced by the aviation industry are numerous, and airports wish to be involved in the work to address them, so as to deliver technical solutions which benefit all stakeholders and contribute to more sustainable, efficient, safe and secure operations.

Under the MoU, ACI EUROPE and EUROCAE plan to share expertise and best practice with one another, and to jointly work to advance the interests of a truly global aviation industry.

Olivier Jankovec, Director General, ACI EUROPE said “Airports being the nodes of the European air transport network, we are very happy to embark on this new cooperation with EUROCAE. This is part of our efforts to ensure that the airport community keeps innovating and is closely involved in the development of the latest technologies. With our involvement in EUROCAE, we  will have a voice in the standardisation of emerging best practices and their impact on airport operations. We look forward to actively cooperating and contributing to EUROCAE.”

As such, ACI EUROPE will be able to support EUROCAE’s work to develop internationally-recognised ground and airborne system and equipment standards for civil aviation. EUROCAE will have access to the expertise of ACI EUROPE’s Technical & Operational Safety Committee, which brings together top experts in safety management, airport operations, ATM interface/integration and other technical domains – and thus also contribute to the work of airports in these areas.

Christian Schleifer-Heingärtner, Secretary General, EUROCAE said “We are delighted to welcome ACI EUROPE as a Full Member of EUROCAE. The strengthened collaboration with the airport community will be very beneficial for the technical standardisation activities but also for the EUROCAE organisation as a whole to complete the set of stakeholders”.

For additional information, please contact Anna von Groote at anna.vongroote@eurocae.net

EUROCAE 56th General Assembly

On 25 April 2019, in Toulouse (France), the members of EUROCAE Association met at the École Nationale de l’Aviation Civile (ENAC) for the 56th General Assembly (GA).

This year’s GA was a first in many respects:

• Taking full advantage of the new IT environment, the GA was for the first time fully managed through the workspace.
• Similarly, only electronic voting was used and the Full Members could vote either before or during the General Assembly.
• And finally, also for the first time, the General Assembly was live streamed on YouTube allowing

and facilitating remote participation by those Members and Partners that could not join the meeting in Toulouse.

As every year, the Council Chairperson presented the Council report and strategic objectives for the Association, the Treasurer - the
financial results and ceiling of annual Full Members’ subscription which were reviewed and approved, and the Council members and President were elected.

For additional information, please consult the EUROCAE website.

77th meeting of EUROCAE TAC  

The 77th meeting of the EUROCAE Technical Advisory Committee took place on 24 April 2019 at the Airbus premises at Toulouse.

TAC approved updated Terms of Reference for several WGs and activities:

• WG-105 UAS – SG-61 SORA

A new deliverable was added to draft an update of the SORA work plan based on the SORA v2.0 published by JARUS and corresponding EASA AMC, which is currently under development.

• WG-63 Complex Aircraft Systems

WG-63 is working jointly with SAE S-18 on the update of several important standards. Due to the complex work and the amount of outstanding tasks, the ToR has been updated with a revised target date for this work. In addition, a new deliverable was agreed to be developed by WG-63 jointly with S-18, to develop a process standard with more flexible and less prescriptive development objectives. This new document will complement the ED-79 and ED-135 standards.

• WG-79 EVS/SVS

Currently WG-79 has published all its deliverables from the ToR. The update aims at aligning with RTCA SC-213 ToR (2 MASPS on SVS/EVS), but as well as to add a new deliverable on helicopter operations for low visibility operational credit.

• WG-104 SWIM Services

Expanding on the previous activities of WG-104, the WG will provide EUROCAE working groups with generically applicable support material, including an improved template for information service standardisation and a comprehensive EUROCAE-methodology to standardise additional SWIM information services within scope of EUROCAE. It is envisaged that the deliverables directly contribute to specific SWIM information services standardisation in support of the PCP.

To achieve this, WG-104 will closely coordinate with the INEA/CEF Implementation Project on SWIM Governance and with EUROCONTROL ensuring the compliance of the EUROCAE deliverables with the EUROCONTROL Specifications on SWIM.

Next TAC meetings are planned as follows;

• TAC#78 02-03 July 2019, Saint Denis
• TAC#79 19-20 September 2019, Brussels

For additional information, please contact Anna von Groote at anna.vongroote@eurocae.net

EUROCAE's engagement in China

16-18 April, Shanghai, China 

Mid of April 2019, as part of the stakeholder engagement plan, a 
EUROCAE delegation participated in
two aviation events organised by Galleon in Shanghai,  China.

The Civil Avionics International Forum (CAIF) and the Connected Aircraft China Congress (CAC) were both very well attended, bringing together major Chinese aviation stakeholders as well as international companies.

EUROCAE was invited to deliver opening keynote speeches on civil aviation standardisation in Europe at CAIF and on its connectivity activities at CAC.

EUROCAE Secretary General Christian Schleifer conducted a workshop to provide an insight on standard development illustrated by concrete examples.

This was also the occasion for EUROCAE to meet a number of Chinese aviation stakeholders including representatives from regulators, trade associations, corporations and academia.

In 2019 EUROCAE recognises its WG participants  

Standards development by EUROCAE Working Groups is the work of volunteers that spend their time and effort in addition to their activities “at home”. More than 2000 subject matter experts are currently registered with EUROCAE to support this task.

Each year EUROCAE asks their Working Group members to identify those colleagues that go beyond what can be expected, that show excellent performance either in leading an activity or by contributing to the drafting of the standards. These colleagues are presented with a EUROCAE Award.

In 2019 a total of 6 Awards were presented.

Leading a EUROCAE Working Group is a very challenging task. Experts come with their own professional and personal background and company interests. Stephane Pelleschi, the 2019 winner of the EUROCAE Working Group Leader Award has shown that it can be done. Not only did he lead WG-92 in developing the VDL Mode 2 Standard, he also was willing to step in to lead WG-108 (Standards for ATN/IPS) when it was created quite recently. 

The “2019 EUROCAE Best Contribution Award” has been presented to Christopher Hoffman for his contribution to the development of Revision B of ED-62/DO-204, the “MOPS for Aircraft Emergency Locator Transmitters 406 MHz”. He was driving the development through some challenging times when the document needed to be restructured and changed significantly. That the development was a success was to a big part due to Christopher’s contributions.

Standardisation and its application is global! This makes it important to join forces for the development of standards. An excellent example for such a cooperation is the joint work of EUROCAE WG-72 and RTCA SC-216 on the development of standards for “Aeronautical System Security”. It was a rocky road they travelled but in the end achieved a standard that was considered by everybody as fit for purpose. The “2019 EUROCAE Global Harmonisation Award” was presented to WG-72/SC-219.

There’s a big mis-conception: EUROCAE is for Europe only. Indeed about 30% of our members are located in the “rest of the world”. Also in the Working Groups a significant number of non-European attendees contribute. The “2019 EUROCAE International Contribution Award” was presented to one of these non-European members: Fabrice Kunzi. His contribution to WG-105 (Unmanned Airborne Systems) ensured that also the non-European perspective was considered.

The EUROCAE Lifetime Achievement Award shall recognise the contribution of members that goes beyond the participation in one Working Group or the execution of a specific task. It is long-lasting contribution to the EUROCAE activities that justifies this Award. Michael Allouche, the 2019 winner of this Award represents exactly this. Since many years he is active in EUROCAE in the area of Unmanned Systems. He is one of the authors of the 1309 reconciliation report, bridging competing perspectives of EUROCAE and JARUS. And when in 2016 the decision was taken to establish WG-105 as a single Working Group to develop standards for unmanned systems, he, together with Alain Vallée, was chairing the group, putting in place a unique structure to manage the challenging work programme.

To recognise outstanding contribution to EUROCAE and International Standardisation, the “EUROCAE Presidents Award” was in 2019 presented to Shigeru Ozeki Director General of the “Electronic Navigation Research Institute (ENRI)”, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. ENRI has since long been an organisation that promoted EUROCAE and its activities. And Shigeru Ozeki was one of those experts spending his effort in the development of standards. But what is really impressive is his dedication when it comes to promoting EUROCAE and its activities. Not only does he encourage Japanese researchers to attend Working Group meetings, he is always ready to provide EUROCAE with a possibility to present its activities, such as the EIWAC 2019 conference.

EUROCAE kicks-off the new WG-111

15-16 May, Saint Denis, France

In line with the approved Terms of Reference (ToR), to update the existing ED’s on Airport Collaborative decision Making (A-CDM) and take into account requirements on A-CDM from the PCP and put A-CDM in the appropriate context of A-SMGCS and SWIM, WG-111 is tasked to develop:

• ED-141A Minimum Technical Specifications for A-CDM Systems
• ED-145A A-CDM Interface Specification, to include SWIM interface description
• ED-146A Guidelines for Test and Validation Related to A-CDM Interoperability
• A-CDM SWIM Service Performance Specification.

To maximise the chances of success, EUROCAE WG-111 is inviting experts in particular from the following domains:

• International and European regulations
• Airport operations
• Airport stakeholders
• Standardisation
• Equipment manufacturers
• Air Navigation Service Providers

For additional information and to participate in the activity of the WG, please contact Sergiu Marzac at sergiu.marzac@eurocae.net.

Aviation Software Standards

With airborne and ground-based aviation systems increasingly interconnected, the landscape for critical systems software is changing.

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.  

Join our next training session of Aviation Software Standards, based on your availability, and experience a practical and interactive approach to the subject matter, drawing on the trainers’ extensive experience in both aviation safety and critical systems software development. 

The course outline is available here.

The next sessions are planned as follows:  

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

Aviation Cybersecurity Training 

Benefits of attending

• 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.
• ED-201 brought to life with classroom scenarios and exercises.
• Learn best practice on auditing and certification.
• Instructor a leading authority on aviation cybersecurity and a certified lead auditor for ISO27001.
• Sharing experiences with colleagues from other aviation stakeholders/countries.
• Extensive course handouts including ED-201, ED-202, ED-203A, ED-204.
• Ideal learning environment at EUROCAE HQ in Saint-Denis (Paris area, France).
• Certificate on completion of the course.

The next sessions are planned as follows:  

The course outline is available here.

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

EUROCAE documents

The following EUROCAE documents were published in April:

ED-205 "Process Standard for Security Certification and Declaration of ATM ANS Ground Systems";

ED-130A Ch 1 "Guidance for the Use of Portable Electronics Devices (PEDs) On Board Aircraft - Change 1";

ED-242A "MASPS for AMS(R)S Data and Voice Communications Supporting Required Communications Performance (RCP) and Required Surveillance Performance (RSP)";

ED-243A "MOPS for Avionics Supporting Next Generation Satellite Systems (NGSS)";

ED-194A Ch. 1 "MOPS for Aircraft Surveillance Applications (ASA) System";

ED-137C  "Interoperability Standard for VOIP ATM Components", Volume 5 "Supervision", Volume 4
"Recording" and Volume 2 "Telephone", including 8 Addenda. 

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