The first WN3E Workshop on Wake Turbulence Safety in Future Aircraft Operations was hosted by Thales Air Systems and took place at Thales University in Jouy-en-Josas, near Paris, France, on January 8th & 9th 2009
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| Day 1 - Thursday, January 8th | ||
| 08:30 | Registration | |
| 09:00 | Welcome & Introduction | |
| Andreas Reinke, Coordinator - WakeNet3-Europe, Airbus | ||
| Thierry Beauvais, VP Research and Technologies, Thales Air Systems | ||
| Dietrich Knörzer, Scientific Officer, European Commission | ||
| 09:30 | Topic 1 : Wake Vortex Concepts in SESAR and NextGen | |
| Chair: Jean-Luc Marchand / EUROCONTROL | ||
| 09:30 | SESAR Overall Framework and Concept | |
| Robert Graham / EUROCONTROL | ||
| 10:00 | Wake Vortex Topics in SESAR | |
| David Booth / EUROCONTROL, Andrew Harvey / EUROCONTROL | ||
| 10:30 | Wake Vortex in the Context of NextGen | |
| Steven Lang / FAA, Jeff Tittsworth / FAA | ||
| 11:00 | Standardization Activities for Wake Vortex Data Link Services | |
| Laurence Mutuel / Thales Avionics, Wayne Bryant / FAA, Ernie Dash / FAA | ||
| 11:30 | Break | |
| 12:00 | Topic 2 : Operational Detection and Prediction of Wake Vortices | |
| Chair: Sebastian Kauertz / Airbus | ||
| 12:00 | Some reflections on the achievable quality of operational wake vortex prediction using operational met and a/c inputs | |
| Gregoire Winckelmans / UCL | ||
| 12:25 | On the maturity of wake vortex observation, prediction, and validation | |
| Frank Holzäpfel / DLR | ||
| 12:50 | Lunch | |
| 14:25 | Near-field evolution of trailing vortices and initialization of far-field models | |
| Jeffrey Crouch / Boeing | ||
| 14:50 | Pulsed 1.5 µm LIDAR for aircraft wake vortex detection and monitoring | |
| Agnes Dolfi-Bouteyre / ONERA | ||
| 15:15 | Wake vortex X-band radar monitoring: Paris-CDG airport 2008 campaign results & perspectives | |
| Frederic Barbaresco / Thales Air Systems | ||
| 15:40 | Break | |
| 16:10 | First approach to wake vortex prediction and detection integrated fusion filters | |
| Shanna Schoenhals / TU Braunschweig, Meiko Steen / TU Braunschweig | ||
| 16:35 | Wake vortex detection using Flight Data Recorder data registered on board aircraft | |
| Henk Haverdings / NLR | ||
| 17:00 | FAR-Wake: Fundamental Research on Aircraft Wake Phenomena | |
| Thomas Leweke / IRPHE CNRS | ||
| 17:25 | End of Day 1 | |
| 19:00 | Social Event | |
| Day 2 - Friday, January 9th | ||
| 08:00 | Opening | |
| 08:30 | Topic 3 : Wake Vortex related Safety Cases for Operational Implementation | |
| Chair: Tim Fowler / Det Norske Veritas | ||
| 08:30 | Worst-case analysis of wake vortex risk of 700ft vertical separation | |
| Gerben van Baren / NLR | ||
| 08:55 | Wake vortex severity assessment - a core element of the safety case | |
| Carsten Schwarz / DLR, Frank Holzäpfel / DLR, Thomas Gerz / DLR, Klaus-Uwe Hahn / DLR | ||
| 09:20 | Development of the Safety Case for the CREDOS operation | |
| Lennaert Speijker / NLR | ||
| 09:45 | Break | |
| 10:15 | Airbus wake vortex flight test campaigns and general conclusions | |
| Claude Lelaie / Airbus, Andreas Reinke / Airbus | ||
| 10:40 | National Rule Change and Follow-on | |
| Steven Lang / FAA, Jeff Tittsworth / FAA | ||
| 11:05 | Wake turbulence safety assessment of the arrival and departure segregated operation in Paris CDG | |
| Vincent Treve / EUROCONTROL | ||
| 11:30 | Developing Local Wake Turbulence Separation Standards (Never Ending Story) | |
| Isa Alkalay / Skyguide | ||
| 11:55 | Lunch | |
| 13:00 | Topic 4 : Wake Advisory & Warning Systems | |
| Chair: Peter Eriksen / EUROCONTROL | ||
| 13:00 | ATC-Wake: Integrated ATC Wake Vortex Safety and Capacity System | |
| Lennaert Speijker / NLR | ||
| 13:25 | Wake Vortex Advisory System | |
| Jean-Francois Moneuse / Thales Air Systems | ||
| 13:50 | Technologies and procedures for wake vortex flight safety in the Russian next-generation air navigation system | |
| Eduard Falkov / GosNII AS | ||
| 14:15 | Break | |
| 14:35 | Topic 5 : Towards Recategorisation of Wake Turbulence Separations | |
| Chair: Prof. Robert Luckner / Technische Universität Berlin | ||
| 14:35 | Model-based recategorisation - options and challenges | |
| Andreas Reinke / Airbus | ||
| 15:05 | RECAT Phase 1: Towards the Identification of new Static Wake Turbulence Categories along with their Associated Wake Turbulence Separation minima | |
| Elsa Freville / EUROCONTROL, Steven Lang / FAA, Jeffrey Tittsworth / FAA, Catalin Lepadatu / EUROCONTROL | ||
| 15:35 | Workshop Wrap-up | |
| Bram Elsenaar / NLR ret. | ||
| Andreas Reinke / Airbus | ||
| 16:00 | End of Workshop | |
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