![]() ![]() “Whether it comes in 10 years, 20 years or 40 years – everyone can have their own opinion of this. He believes an impetus to change in the way ATC operates will be preparing the ground for UAMs. Having that link between dispatcher, pilot and ATC, there is one vision that I have for SITA, which is decision-making tools for all these people to work together.” But what nobody really links is air traffic control, which is an area where IT has not moved. “Today, many of us – SITA and other providers – have solutions that are available to the pilots in the cockpit, or the OCC, the dispatcher. One area SITA believes technology can make a difference to is air traffic control. And everything that relates to machine learning, The tools have become more available, in terms of machine learning tools and frameworks around using data.” BRINGING IN AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL ”The availability of aircraft performance data has increased and will continue to increase. “What has changed in the last 10 years is the generation of data from aircraft,” Cabaret says. Helping make these solutions more practical today are advances in the data collected from the global fleet and machine learning capabilities. Optimising top of descent allows you to do continuous descent operations and you have massive fuel savings there,” he says. SITA has a product to optimse take-off and flight plans in-flight and further plans include using historical data to better predict the top of descent. In the big scheme of thing that may not be huge, but actually 150 kilos of fuel on every flight is something we can do today with currently technology, you don’t have to wait for SAF or new aircraft, or new engines, you can do it today.” ![]() “We do this for Singapore Airlines, and on average they save 150kg of fuel on every take-off. And by applying those, pilots and airlines will save fuel.” “So we use technology, we use flight data from each and every tail, to analyse performance, and then based on the weight of the aircraft or weather conditions, for each and every flight, we provide recommendations for speeds and altiutdes. And we are not even talking types of aircraft, we are talking tails, because of its history and its own performance. The reality is every aircraft has a different performance profile. We have a product called SITA Optiflight, which provides recommendations to pilots in terms of speed and altitude to save fuel. “It is a trendy example, but it is a real example. He says while much of the sustainability focus is on the role of new aircraft, engines and fuel types in driving net-zero ambitions, the industry can make gains in the nearer term by optimizing operations. So the drivers are more present today,” Cabaret says. “It is not like 10 years ago we didn’t know that sustainability wasn’t a topic, but socially and economically, all this is changing. That is really where we see our core of investment.”Ĭrucially, he believes moving of sustainability up the agenda – for regulators, the public and the aviation industry – provides greater impetus for take-up of some of SITA’s solutions. “So how do you manage the turnaround, how do you manage an aircraft that has been re-routed to a different airport and how do you co-ordinate activities around the aircraft. “The other bit we focus on is back to the OTP, turnaround on the ground,” he adds. That’s really where we see IT plus telecom joins up pretty well and where SITA has a role to play. So typically on-time performance, fuel efficiency, weather turbulence avoidance. ”The front of the aircraft is really around the pilots and how do we equip pilots to meet the demand that they have from their management and their passengers. “We are advancing our efforts slightly more to the front of the aircraft and the belly of the aircraft,” explains Cabaret, in an interview with FlightGlobal ahead of the show. SITA for Aircraft chief executive Yann Cabaret Airline Business special: CEOs to watch in 2021.FlightGlobal Guide to Business Aviation Training and Safety 2021.EDGE: A new global force in aerospace and defence.Shell Aviation: What will it take to Decarbonise Aviation?.What does the future of aviation look like in 2022?.Guide to Business Aviation Training and Safety 2022.What will it take to Decarbonise Aviation?.Airline Business Covid-19 recovery tracker. ![]()
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