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Flight Planning

The operations of centralised flight plan processing (rationalising reception, validation, acceptance and distribution of flight plan data) and flight data for ATFCM planning are progressively developed to ensure better consistency of initial flight plan data across Europe through the establishment of a reference flight plan data repository. More flexibility will be provided by the flight planning process and tighter links ensured between the more dynamic airspace database and flight planning partners.

The Flight planning fulfils three primary services:
  • a centralised flight plan processing service for the States within the CFMU area with the objective of rationalising reception, validation, acceptance and distribution of Repetitive Flight Plan (RPL) and Filed Flight Plan (FPL) data.
  • provision of flight data for ATFM planning, monitoring and slot allocation as required in the European ATFM concept.
  • assurance of flight plan consistency across Europe and management of its repository.

Operations at a glance

Flight planning operations are executed by two operational services (IFPS and RPL).

An extensive route catalogue (RCAT) is also maintained in order to provide routing assistance and route validation through a test flight plan facility (IFPUV).

The services provided include H24 operations at both IFPS units.

Main Focus

Flight Planning Operations of the CFMU ensures the continuity of the core operational services within the best standards of quality.

It also looks for improvements to respond to changing requirements, particularly those coming from external activities (e.g. changes in FPL format), from a better management perspective (reduction of manual processing) or from technical evolutions (communications, IT, etc).
 
  Last validation: 16/03/2009