Eurocontrol Publishes Contingency Planning for Air Navigation Services Guidelines
December 3, 2007 // Published as a news service by IHS
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Eurocontrol released guidelines to help states and air navigation service providers (ANSPs) identify and decide their contingency strategies and operational practices best suited to their needs in various circumstances.
The states and ANSPs are primarily responsible in the event of failure and or disruption of their air navigation services.
According to Eurocontrol, the guidelines provide them with additional information and processes for contingency planning, as well as describe the roles and responsibilities of the different bodies including the state, ANSP and airspace users.
They also set out the consultations that need to take place within the planning process.
The guidelines recognize that many states already have contingency plans in place.
Therefore, as well as catering for those who wish to conceive and develop contingency plans further, there is also an accompanying Contingency Planning Reference Guide (RG) aimed at those institutions who are more familiar with the subject.
The RG provides a menu of checklists and graphics and, along with the main guidelines, may be used by ANSPs and states to validate their own processes and existing plans against the advice provided, Eurocontrol said.
"In putting together these guidelines, Eurocontrol's objective is to help ANSPs and state authorities fulfill their international obligations concerning ANS Contingency Planning set by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) and the European Commission [EC]," said Guido Kerkhofs, director of ATM Programmes at Eurocontrol.
"In addition, the guidelines will help ANSPs and states fulfill a new European Convergence and Implementation Plan (ECIP) objective related to the implementation of ANS contingency measures for safety critical modes of operation."
Previous Eurocontrol guidelines on ATM Contingency Planning were issued in 1997. However with the political, economic, legal, environmental, operational, safety, security and technological changes that affected European ATM in the past ten years, Eurocontrol believed it was necessary to refresh and update the guidelines.
The guidelines are available on the Eurocontrol web site at http://www.eurocontrol.int/ses/public/standard_page/sk_sesis_guidelines.html.
Source: Eurocontrol.