Flight Procedures (TMA CTR Sector and Airports)

Regarding the improvement of efficiency, for some years now, Sector TMA CTR  and  in Airports (TCA) has been  committed to ensuring that the new procedures would reduce flight times and ensure an optimum descent path whose goal is to support the Continuous Descent Operations (CDO).

The TCA Sector, also, is responsible for the analysis and evaluation of everything that may have a potential impact  on existing flight procedures, for example, changes to existing  airspace, blasting ordnance  ,air display, construction of major obstacles such as  the increasingly  widespread wind farms, thereby  ensuring that the flight operations of civil aviation can always take place in full  compliance with  security policies  set  by national  and international provisions. The TMA CTR and Airport Sector is actively involved on a national and international level by participating in key working groups and technical meetings that deal with flight  procedures. In this context, the PBN procedures (Performance Based Navigation)  are particularly  relevant. These procedures, defined by ICAO, are based on new technologies for navigation through the use of GNSS (satellite navigation) and the and the high automation of the aircrafts on board equipment  (FMS-GPS-IRU).

This approach, in the near future, will design a more flexible architectural airspace that will be even more harmonious to the needs of users, while maintaining safety standards. The key elements of this new architecture will be the P-RNAV procedures and approach procedures based on GNSS satellite systems, including special importance holding the EGNOS system in which ENAV is actively involved with other key service providers in Europe.