Together with more than 10 other relevant participants (Agusta Westland, Airbus, Dassault, EADS, DLR, Barco, Rockwell Collins, GE, CAE, ..), GTD is participating to ALICIA project. This project is worth 46 M€ and directly addresses the Vision 2020 goal of improved time efficiency in the air transportation system by developing new cockpit systems that can enable significantly more aircraft movements than is possible today. Presentation of 2 conflicts, no-go arcs and proposition of an alternative flight plan in white with delay and consumption impact. The aim within ALICIA is to develop new systems which will permit aircraft to operate in almost all weather conditions and to fly closer together at lower risk, whilst simultaneously driving down air transport delays. ALICIA couples the latest thinking in air traffic management (SESAR) with new cockpit concepts capable of providing improved mission performance whilst also enhancing situation awareness. Thus, the two key areas of technological advance are: • All Condition Operations (ACO) system capable of delivering robust worldwide operations capability, allowing aircraft to use airports with less capable ground based approach aids, in a wider range of degraded flight conditions. • A new cockpit architecture facilitating the introduction of new cockpit technologies and applications capable of driving down crew workload whilst enhancing safety and improving crew situational awareness. The rationale for the new cockpit architecture is borne of the certainty that within the next decade the cockpit design will be stressed by the introduction of a series of new concepts such as ACO and those being developed within the SESAR program.
