SESAR experts

In this section, you will discover the input and opinion from various experts in the ATM and Air Transport fields about SESAR.

  • Pioneering and progressing: Assessing the progress of SESAR with Florian Guillermet

    The SESAR programme was launched on 3 June 2009. Now almost two years since its launch, It’s a good time to take stock of the status of the programme’s 300 projects, assess progress in the execution of the first SESAR release and the first project deliverables. In a short interview, Florian Guillermet, SESAR JU Chief Programme Officer, gives his evaluation of the programme and the first release, and looks at some of the challenges facing SESAR in the second half of 2011.

  • Industry gets the floor: Developing future Air Traffic Flow and Capacity Management Systems (ATFCM)

    One of the key SESAR projects in the area of Air Traffic Flow and Capacity Management Systems (ATFCM) is Project 13.1.4, managed by Dominique Latgé, from Thales. He explained how the project will enable industry to contribute to future ATFCM systems through SESAR.

     

  • Dynamic DCB: Bridging the gap

    Othmar Schnabel, Project Manager at DFS for project 7.6.5, explains how the Dynamic DCB project – including the STAM exercise for Release 1 - is bridging the gap between Air Traffic Flow and Capacity Management Systems (ATFCM) and air traffic control.

  • Interview with the Lufthansa Chief Pilot

    Airspace users are a central part of the SESAR programme. More efficient ATM will help save fuel, increase predictability of flight arrivals and departures, and help reduce flight times. As so many SESAR improvements will affect airspace users, it is important to ensure that they are closely involved in the programme. In a special interview Flight Captain Werner Knorr, Lufthansa Chief Pilot, explains how he sees the role of the airspace users in SESAR, and in particular what Lufthansa and its staff hope to gain from working with SESAR.

     

  • We will succeed

    With the endorsement of the new 13 Associate Partners, 21 air navigation service providers (ANSP) are currently contributing to the SESAR work programme. As air navigation service and airport service provider at the same time, Aena has a special role amongst them. In the interview below, Mariluz de Mateo, Head of the Strategy and Planning Unit in Aena’s Air Navigation Directorate, details the expectations and needs ANSPs have towards the SESAR work programme, the controller of the future and the technological innovation brought by the programme.

     

  • A single programme to build a Single European Sky

    An interview with Bernard Miaillier, Deputy Director, Cooperative Network Design Directorate of Eurocontrol.

    Bernard Miaillier is Deputy Director of the Cooperative Network Design Directorate of Eurocontrol and leads the Eurocontrol contribution to SESAR. Since joining Eurocontrol in 1987, he has been involved in future ATM/CNS concept definition and implementation planning, and in management and coordination of R&D programmes. He led the development of the European ATM 2000+ Strategy and was the Project Manager of the SESAR Definition Phase.

     

  • SESAR is also about quick wins

    An interview with Peter Sørensen, Director IATA Europe

    Peter Sørensen has been with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) since 2006 and was recently appointed Director of its European regional office responsible for Safety, Operations and Infrastructure. Prior to this he has held the positions of manager of the Executive Director’s office at the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and General Secretary of the European Cockpit Association.

     

  • SESAR must be applicable globally

    An interview with Luc Lallouette, SESAR Programme Director for the R&D phase at Thales. 

    Luc Lallouette is SESAR Programme Director for the R&D phase of the programme, an appointment made after he became International Director for the Tactical Communications Business Line of Thales Group. Previously he has held other senior management positions in the Thales Group, including CEO of Thales Safare, a subsidiary specialised in naval communication products and solutions, and head of the Communication, Navigation and Surveillance Business Unit in Thales Communications. 

     

     

  • SESAR has started with remarkable success!

    An interview with Patrick de Prevaux, Director for Air Transport, Research & Technology (R&T) and Operations for the AeroSpace and Defence industries association of Europe (ASD).

    Patrick de Prevaux has been Director for Air Transport, R & T and Operations for ASD, a European association representing the interests of industries in the aeronautics, space, defence and security sectors, since January 2009.

     

     

     

  • Military needs and roles are unique in SESAR

    An interview with Group Captain John Clark, Royal Air Force -Assistant Director, Airspace Policy 2

    Group Captain John Clark currently represents the Military ATM Board of Eurocontrol. As Group Captain for Air Traffic Control (ATC) at the UK’s Headquarters Air, he was responsible for military ATC policy and all aspects of service delivery with a particular focus on expeditionary ATC. Group Capt Clark joined the Royal Air Force in 1976 and was subsequently commissioned into the Air Traffic Control Branch. He has served with the RAF in a variety of posts in the UK, Belize, Germany and Saudi Arabia, where he was directly responsible for all UK air operations over Afghanistan. He has also held a Desk Officer appointment within the UK’s Counter Proliferation and Arms Control Secretariat, acting as the Ministry of Defence’s focal point in providing support to firstly UNMOVIC and, post-hostilities, the Iraq Survey Group.