A System Design for the Provision of a Safer, More Economic, and More Efficient Air Traffic Service for the Icao North Atlantic Region

摘要

The ICAO Fourth North Atlantic Regional Air Navigation Meeting adopted a recommendation which called for the introduction of a systems planning concept to the ICAO North Atlantic Region. Following acceptance of this recommendation by the ICAO Council, the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) established a team of experts designated the 'Systems Planning Approach North Atlantic Team' (SPANAT) to undertake the development of a system design directed toward attainment of the proposed goals. Specifically, the Team was to attempt to produce a system design plan which would, for the time period encompassed, provide the most practical solutions to the major problems incident to the provision of safe, regular, and efficient air operations in the North Atlantic Region. In developing the systems design plan for the North Atlantic, the Team received invaluable assistance from other Agencies and from various components of the airline industry. The demonstration system design plan, while considered valid in terms of the present technical state-of-art and in terms of the traffic forecasts which have been developed in concert with other principal North Atlantic Provider States, is not to be construed as necessarily representing, in all of its details, firm Agency positions.