Air Traffic Management

For those who are in the business, the air navigation services [ANS] world is known for the awkward selection of acronyms which make up our daily jargon. However, through random or forced attempts, we do sometimes manage to come up with meaningful [or apparently so] words.  And there we go, finding ourselves making bridges between the ANS world and the private one outside, because of these phenomena…

SWIM stands for System Wide Information Management [now I don't know what came first, whether it was the term or the acronym... maybe you do, in which case, please do let me know, tnx]. It ss a concept that once put in practice would enable enhanced information sharing between different actors in the Air Traffic Management [ATM] system [yes I am watching my acronyms today].  Some have compared it with the ATM System’s intranet.

The concept for me makes sense, even if there are practical challenges to put it in practice.  From what I understand, the idea is that the ATM community sets to define and apply a series of protocols that enable different information types to be shared across a network and made available in an easy [but secure, reliable, etc.] manner to those who need it; at the right time and in an effective way.  A series of services would then be able to be developed [maybe not unlike web services] that would be able to extract the right information necessary for the particular actor to get the job done or to take a decision.

Basically SWIM stands on three principles:

1. The enhancement of the sharing of information
2. A common interface [or protocols]
3. A series of services which are developed to extract the information at the right place and the right time.

Would you like to know more? SWIM is still a concept and the descriptions I could find available to the general public are still quite fuzzy, however, I suggest trying the SESAR Concept of Operations; D3 [it is not an easy read, but it has some interesting parts if you know the trade and if you stick hard enough to it!] that you can find at the European ATM Master Plan portal: www.atmmasterplan.eu, in the info box called: Popular Documents.

… and yes now that the bridge is made, everytime I think of something as pleasurable as swimming, I find myself thinking of the ATM’s intranet.  I absolutely prefer unpronouncable, meaningless acronyms.  FOIPS anybody?

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After a few months considering throwing the towel and stopping blogging, I decided to continue with this project.

Although currently dissatisfied by the lack of feedback I receive on it [in fact I receive none] and by the fact that the audience numbers never took off, I concluded that in the end I enjoy doing this and creating these posts give me a certain discipline in writing and in writing regularly.

I have enlarged the scope, as this was one of my difficulties.  From now on I will write on ATM in general, with training being one element.  I am also ‘rebranding’: Aria TM is born.

The skin I chose represents Aria TM: Clean, light, transparent, professional and content centric….

Now I need your help: what would you like me to write about?…

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The human is a key part of the ATM system, right?  So if a piece of this system is changed or a new piece added [or an old piece taken out for all that matters!] the human may be affected.

The HF Case is a process which when used within projects aimed at conceiving, designing and or implementing significantly assists in the identification of issues that will likely effect the human and likewise proposes ways of finding means to deal with these issues, by either preventing or by curing.

Would you like to know more? Why not start with the e-learning module which has just been developed? [I participated in this project...]  It is clear and concise and takes the student through an interactive and concise journey [25 mins] of discovery of the HF Case phases and the tools and models used.

The training module is for free…If you’re interested, click on the image:

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HF Case Module [click to start module

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