The aim of SESAR’s Release approach is to feed the aviation community with an incremental flow of new or improved ATM technological solutions at a pre-industrialisation stage. Results delivered through the Release process will gradually allow the European ATM network to evolve in accordance with the new SESAR paradigm, and thereby help the aviation community to overcome the constraints which currently limit the optimal performance of the ATM environment.

Release 2 featured 30 validation exercises and took place throughout Europe in 2012. Release 2 exercises focused on:

• Refining the time-based separation minima between arrival aircraft
• Optimising the Air Traffic Control (ATC) sectorisation to better cope with the traffic demand
• Providing new direct routing for airlines; and increasing ATC efficiency.

The main results of these exercises have just been published, through which a further seven solutions have been identified as mature enough for industrialisation.