Argentinagermany Eana Kicks Tender

EANA Argentinas ANSP has taken a major step in the history of the countrys air navigation service by kicking off redesign work for the Baires TMA. An international consortium led by Indras consultancy arm ALG and comprising Germanys DSF Aviation Services US-based Tetra Tech and Italys IDS won the contract through an international open tender and is now in charge of reshuffling Argentinas largest and busiest TMA with high goals of enhanced safety increased capacity and environmental sustainability.Shaping a more efficient terminal area like Baires while upping safety and capacity with efficiency gains poses a number of challenges given the geographical closeness of the airports under the TMA. Flight paths of one airport are sometimes dependant on traffic on the other. EANA have been designing and implementing PBN charts countrywide and will end 2019 with over 85 percent of commercial runways offering PBN operation. The Baires project is now the ANSPs biggest challenge in terms of airspace design. Centred round Buenos Aires and its metropolitan area and bordering with Uruguayan airspace to the East the Baires TMA comprehends four airports handling roughly 50 of total commercial air traffic. Aircraft movements in the area have been increasing steadily in the last few years as the federal government pushed ahead with a policy of growing air transport.Commercial air traffic volumes are unevenly spread though Jorge Newbery metropolitan airport handled 57915 aircraft movements between January and June 2019 Ezeiza international 42138 El Palomar a military airbase partly converted to also handle low-cost traffic 4819 and San Fernando mostly executive flights 20840. In addition Morn airfield located close to El Palomar is also a converted military base. Nowadays housing many flight schools and a few aircraft repair shops Morn handled 32090 flights over the same period this year.Some of the main goals of the Baires redesign project include reduced controller-pilot communications and ATCO work-loads introduction of PBN-based SIDSTARIACs with flight path separation already included in the design stage flight level windows and parallel trajectories plus new designs for visual airplane as well as helicopter corridors within and under the Radar I II CTA and TMA. Even though it continues to replace outdated navaids across the board EANA said increased availability of PBN charts will make the TMA less dependent of ground-based equipment and lessen the need for new investments in hardware.The Baires TMA redesign project will proceed in four stages namely Planning 2019-2021 Design 2020-2021 Validation throughout 2021 and Staff Training 1Q2022 Implementation 2022. EANA said the resulting redesign of the TMA will be more customer-oriented and more environmentally friendly thanks to savings in fuel burn. As part of the project most aviation-related organizations civil as well as military and civilian bodies upholding citizens rights are to be invited in order to integrate a design group so that their views are duly represented.