< PreviousTo celebrate 10 years since the implementation of the ICAO Language Proficiency Requirements (LPRs) in Brazil – implemented in 2007 – the Instituto de Controle do Espaço Aéreo (ICEA) and Agência Nacional de Aviação Civil (ANAC), the civil aviation regulation agency, teamed up last September for a symposium on pilot/air traffic controller language proficiency. The two governmental organizations are responsible for testing Brazilian air traffic controllers and civilian pilots. BRAZIL CELEBRATES A DECADE OF ICAO LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY The Symposium was an opportunity for the 130 stakeholders from all over the country to share experiences and good practices. Participants included pilots, air traffic controllers, regulators, Aviation English teachers, language proficiency test raters, airline administrators and researchers. According to Mr. Wagner Moraes, ANAC’s Operational Standards Superintendent, “It is very important to remember why this has all begun. At some point in the past, it was understood that being proficient at standard phraseology was not enough to reach an acceptable level of safety. The ability to communicate effectively in radiotelephony was necessary. Today the market is aware of the importance of keeping proficient in English. It is as important as maintaining technical and physical proficiency. Being proficient in English is something that pilots need to keep in mind during their professional career.” Major Evandro Jose Alves, an Air Traffic Control Officer and the Chief of the English Training and Testing Department at ICEA, added: “After 10 years of LPR implementation, it is a great satisfaction to observe that, from north to south and from east to west of our huge country, the importance of mastering Aviation English is already a recurrent and routine subject in the conversations of these Brazilian professionals.” Brazil developed their own tests for testing air traffic controllers and pilots: EPLIS (Exame de Proficiência em Inglês Aeronáutico do Sistema de Controle do Espaço AéreoBrasileiro) and SDEA (Santos Dumont English Assessment), respectively. EPLIS consists of two phases. The first phase is a listening comprehension test with 30 questions. The second phase consists of an oral proficiency interview assessed by independent raters. SDEA is solely a proficiency test. ANAC is also developing a system to test listening comprehension. Since its implementation, more than 14,000 pilots and 5,500 air traffic controllers have gone through the language proficiency certification process. Pilot proficiency in English has been assessed over 32,000 times; 14,000 tests have been conducted by the Air Traffic Control Authority for licencing purposes. ANGELA GARCIA (ANAC - Brazil) and PATRICIA TOSQUI-LUCKS (ICEA - Brazil) The event highlighted past, present and future actions and projects related to training and testing, as well as test validity studies and various research results. Participants took part in workshops, conducted in English, on the topics: “A debate on SDEA’s test content, format and tasks,” “Are the Language Proficiency Requirements focusing on real life issues?” and “Language, culture and effective radiotelephony communications: analyzing case studies from aviation stakeholders’ perspectives.” Symposium on pilot/air traffic controller language proficiency held at the Airspace Control Institute (ICEA), São José dos Campos (São Paulo, Brazil). 38 | ICAO JOURNAL | ISSUE 1 | 2018 ICAO AVIATION ENGLISHSelect from our extensive list of ICAO- recognized courses to meet your training needs! 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The United Arab Emirates Air Space Restructuring (UAE ARP) project is designed to enhance airspace capacity to meet the forecasted near-term air traffic demand for 2020 and beyond, increase access to all airports within the country, enable airlines to save fuel consumption of USD 14.6 million, driving CO2 emission reductions of 90,401 metric tons, and enhance air traffic movements to accommodate continuous growth in the Controlled Airspace for Dubai and the Northern Emirates. The successful implementation of the project should “futureproof” the UAE’s airspace network for forecasted traffic growth to 2040, including major expansion projects. Moreover, it will ensure that aviation will continue to provide a vital contribution to the UAE Gross Domestic Product and the future growth of the United Arab Emirates as a whole. CROSS-SECTOR COLLABORATION The most extensive airspace changes the region has ever seen were successfully implemented without any disruptions to operations. UAE General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) Director General H.E Saif Al Suwaidi said: “I would like to thank all of those involved for their hard work and dedication to getting us to this historic moment in UAE Aviation history. The implementation of the ARP is not only impressive from a technical perspective, www.ICAO.int | 41 AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT50 PROJECT DELIVERABLES PROJECT REPRESENTATIVES 150 OVER WORKSHOPS / MEETINGS MANHOURS FOR DESIGN DEVELOPMENT 120,000 OVER 200 OVER 18 MONTHS FOR PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION working hours to develop an airspace design network capable of managing the UAE future requirements,” explained Mr. Ahmed Al Jallaf, the Chairman of the Project Steering Group. “Multiple fast-time and real-time simulations in Italy, UK and in the UAE formed critical activities for the design validation and verification of the revised airspace network. The ARP also requires over 250 Air Traffic Controllers to take simulation and theoretical training, the redesign of over 200 Instrument Flight Procedures and incorporation of 30 new airways.” The ARP evolved from a study in 2012- 13 by Airbus ProSky – prepared in close cooperation with the GCAA and National Airspace Advisory Committee (NASAC) – which produced 53 specific recommendations that will prepare the UAE for the future while alleviating current-day saturation and system limitations. This was followed by a conceptual design for the UAE En Route airspace, including a Collaborative Air Traffic Flow Management (ATFM) study and operational trial. to achieve collaboration on such a large-scale change required teams of project management and technical experts with dedicated representation from the six UAE ANSPs (GCAA, DANS, Abu Dhabi ANS, Fujairah, Ras Al Khaimah and Sharjah), 15 core agencies (including the UAE National Airlines, UAE Airport Authorities, UAE Military, regulatory representation, IATA and the National Center of Meteorology and Seismology) and the five surrounding International Air Traffic Service Providers” (Bahrain, Muscat, Tehran, Jeddah and Qatar). H.E. Mohammed A. Ahli, Director General of the Dubai Civil Aviation Authority and CEO of Dubai Air Navigation Services (dans), stated: “The past three years have demonstrated the importance of cross-sector collaboration for the greater benefit. We are also proud to witness the aviation sector arrive at new and unprecedented fronts.” “The project directly involved five of the seven Emirates within the UAE and to date has required over 120,000 dedicated man 42 | ICAO JOURNAL | ISSUE 1 | 2018 AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT5 EMIRATES OF UAE INVOLVED AVIATION STAKEHOLDER ORGANIZATIONS COLLABORATIVELY INVOLVED UAE AIR NAVIGATION SERVICE PROVIDERS INVOLVED 6 26 The UAE FIR is predominantly a complex En Route environment, with the majority of traffic spending around 85 percent of the flight distance flown in a climb or descent phase. The new design interfaces the appropriate connectivity to Control Area CTAs, which is key to ensuring integration into the overall UAE network route structure and international interfaces. Mr. Hafid El Boukfaoui, Regional Director of Airbus ProSky, noted that a comprehensive design ensures the airspace will be optimally used to support growing aviation needs and activity levels. It also leverages capabilities as they are deployed as part of ICAO Block Upgrades and will accommodate the transition to a full Performance Based Navigation (PBN) airspace environment . Operators can expect significant PBN network changes for all phases of flight, i.e. ATS routes, Conditional Routes (CDR) - introduced for the first time in Emirates FIR, new sector communication frequencies, new holding facilities, SIDs, STARs and instrument approach procedures into UAE airports. Based on the predicted traffic demand, the entire Emirates FIR has been designed according to PBN RNAV 1 specification to space the route structure closer together. Both aircraft and flight crew have to be qualified against PBN RNAV 1 navigation specification requirements, which replaced PBN RNAV 5 specification. The GCAA will not be able to accommodate non-RNAV 1 aircraft into the UAE airspace after 7 December 2017. Also, within UAE airspace, PBN RNAV 1 specification can only be assured with GNSS sensor support. BEYOND 2020 Future proofing the UAE’s airspace network for the forecasted growth to 2040 is a parallel activity within the UAE ARP. Through the UAE ARP 3 Integrated Airspace Master Plan (IAMP), a roadmap will be developed to ensure greater capacity and efficiency will be introduced to the network through incremental implementation stages in line with key forecasted aviation milestones. Milestones include the expansion plans for both Dubai World Central Al Maktoum International Airport and Abu Dhabi International Airport expansion, as well as Dubai’s EXPO 2020. This allows the UAE network to proactively adapt airspace in a timely manner in order to strategically prepare for significant events, thereby providing the ability to support the strategies of National Aviation Stakeholders. www.ICAO.int | 43 AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENTMR. MUAYYED AL TENEIJI Head of Airspace Coordination, UAE General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) MIDANPIRG PBN SG/3 Meeting, Cairo, Egypt, February 2018 Dedicated project office to manage deliverables and time lines Early interaction with neighbours to establish the limits of any changes Engage with foreign operators well in advance of planned transition in order to ensure compliance Continuous quality checks on all data – more is better Plan training schedules well in advance to ensure readiness of controllers and aircrew Engage with meteorological providers early in order to obtain accurate forecasts – specifically for the transition day. Dedicated team to ensure ATM system interoperability and enterprise architecture Regulations – must be in place to facilitate PBN implementation KEY DESIGN ELEMENTS OF THE AIRSPACE RESTRUCTURING PROJECT Optimization of available airspace Enhancement of unidirectional route network Improvement of network efficiency and flexibility Support UAE FIR/TMA transition into RNAV 1 environment Introduction of Conditional Routes (CDR) All UAE airports are in the En Route network Network integration supports forecasted 2020 traffic demand More efficient departure and arrival network with delay reduction and shortened distance of Dubai CTA entry/exit gates Dubai CTA entry gates specialized for airport (DXB, DWC, SHU) Optimization of Abu Dhabi CTA entry/exit gates Additional Western entry gate to support dual downwind structure and additional Western and Eastern exit gates to support simultaneous parallel departures Optimization of the internal networks with the CTAs Incorporation of strategic vertical separation through altitude constraints RECOMMENDATIONS FOR A SUCCESSFUL AIRSPACE TRANSITION 44 | ICAO JOURNAL | ISSUE 1 | 2018 AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENTJoin us at the 5 th ICAO Global Aviation Training and TRAINAIR PLUS Symposium to be held in Doha, Qatar, from 10 to 12 December 2018. Hosted by the Qatar Aeronautical College, the Symposium will focus on building and managing Aviation Training Intelligence™. The event will provide participants with an international forum to exchange best practices in aviation training and highlight the use of effective tools and opportunities offered by ICAO’s TRAINAIR PLUS Programme (TPP). 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