Conference Agenda

Operational experience with FANS 1/A ADS and CPDLC

• Implementation of CPDLC and ADS in Australian airspace
• ATC operational experience
• Airline benefits from FANS 1/A
• Future directions

Bob Peake has more than thirty years experience on air traffic control, radar and control centre projects with Airservices Australia, the Australian air traffic service provider. He is the project manager for the implementation of The Australian Advanced Air Traffic System (TAAATS). TAAATS replaced Australia's entire air traffic control system with a new system which integrates Automatic Dependent Surveillance and Controller Pilot Datalink Communications facilities with advanced Flight Data Processing and Radar Data Processing.

FANS 1 - An Airline Perspective

• Lessons learnt from FANS 1 implementation and operation
• Transition to the second generation CNS/ATM environment

Thomas W. Holford is currently the United Airlines FANS-1 Implementation Team Leader and a member of the United Airlines FANS Management Team. He holds a Bachelor or Arts from the University of Colorado ('67) and a Master of Science from the University of Southern California ('71). A U. S. Naval Aviator, Thomas has ten years at the United Flight Center including training management for the B-747-400, B-757/676 & B-777 Fleets and New Technology Issues.

US NATCA Perspective on CPDLC

• Why NATCA supports datalink
• The necessity to consider user input to HMI development
• System automation to support, instead of hinder, controller use of CPDLC
• SRM (Sector Resource Management) and the effects of the introduction of CPDLC

Martin Cole is the U.S. NATCA National Representative for Datalink (National Air Traffic Controllers Association). He is also a member of the International Federation of Air Traffic Controllers' Associations. Martin is currently an Enroute (Area) controller at Washington ARTCC (Air Route Traffic Control Center). He previously held the position of the IFATCA (International Federation of Air Traffic Controllers' Associations) Executive Vice President - Technical.

ATS Data Link equipage - mandating has its benefits

• Business Considerations
• Benefits of Mandating
• Co-ordinated implementation, air and ground

Steve Zerkowitz served as an air traffic controller for 18 years and has ratings in aerodrome control, approach and area radar, instructor and examiner. Steve spent three years with ICAO in Paris as Technical Officer RAC/SAR, nine years on the design team of the AAA system in Amsterdam, as process specialist, flight data processing system. Steve joined IATA 4 years ago and is responsible for advanced concepts, controller tools and air/ground integration.

Derek McLauchlan spent his early career in the satellite industry first with the British Aircraft Corporation, secondly with the European Space Technology Centre in The Netherlands and then as General Manager for Space with Marconi Space and Defence Systems. He spent twelve years with ICL as Engineering Director for mainframe computers. He joined National Air Traffic Services in 1989 as Director General for Projects and Engineering and became its first Chief Executive, a post he held from1991 to1997. On retiring from NATS, he accepted an invitation to establish the new Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation, CANSO, in Geneva where he is Secretary General.

SITA Aeronautical Telecommunications Services

• The data communications infrastructure of the air transport community
• How SITA meets the evolving needs of air transport customers
• Providing ATS services over generic data network infrastructure
• Providing ICAO standard aeronautical telecommunications services

Philip Clinch is Director Air Traffic Services in the SITA Aircraft Services unit, with responsibility for developing the use of the SITA AIRCOM network by Air Traffic Service providers for CNS/ATM data link applications. Philip Clinch began working with SITA in 1988 on VHF data link systems. He contributed to the airline industry standards for the ACARS data link system and its use for FANS-1/A ADS and CPDLC and the ICAO standard for the VHF Digital Link (VDL).

Portable ATN Software Products

• What is "Portable ATN Software"?
• How are portable ATN software products used, and who are the users?
• What are the key implementation considerations for the "portable ATN"?
• Status of development and deployment of the portable ATN product set

Forrest Colliver is the General Manager of ACI LLC, the joint venture company responsible for the development and deployment of certifiable ATN portable software that will be the basis of the first generation of operational avionics and ground ATN systems. Active since 1986 in the field of aeronautical data link, Forrest has had extensive experience in the development and validation of the ICAO and industry related ATN standards, and has been deeply involved in prototype and pre-operational ATN developments in both the US and Europe prior to the formation of ACI LLC in 1997. In addition to his role in the ACI joint venture, Forrest is responsible for avionic system communication product strategy at Sextant, one of the ACI LLC member companies.

Aeronautical Operational Control (AOC) Migration Strategy

• AOC/ATN - The Benefits
• ICAO Standards and Trials Results
• Migration Steps Air/Ground · Industry Deployment Status

Frank O'Connor is VP Marketing and a founder of Airtel ATN. He has worked in the software industry for the past 25 years and his career has involved him in senior technical and managerial roles in a wide variety of software industries sectors. He has been involved in ATN software developments since 1993 and managed the engineering group which developed a trials ATN router for Eurocontrol.

North Atlantic Datalink Activities

• Current trials status
• Transition to operational use
• Plans for future trials

John Coulson joined NATS in 1991 from Ferranti International and currently works in the Infrastructure Services Directorate at Gatwick. He previously acted as NATS Deputy Project Manager for the ADS Europe trials and is now responsible for project management of the pre-operational ADS Waypoint Reporting trials in the Shanwick Oceanic Control Area in the North Atlantic.

Boeing and Communications

• Boeing Overview
• Boeing AMSS Service Offerings
• Connexion by Boeing TM
• CNS/ATM Services
• CDMA Technology vs Regulation for Spectrum Protection
• Current trials status

Karen Gielen is responsible for development and implementation of international regulatory strategy to enable the provision of satellite communications services to airborne and other mobile platforms, including spectrum allocation and licensing. In this capacity, Karen has participated as a member of US delegations to International Telecommunications Union meetings, including the recent World Radiocommunication Conference in Istanbul, Turkey. In her 22 years at Boeing, Karen has held a broad array of assignments, both in the Commercial Airplane and and Space & Communications Groups. Prior to assuming her current assingment in 1997, Karen served as CNS/ATM Programs Manager.