Wed, Feb 29, 2012
Offers New Consulting Service To Airport Operators
A new specialised consulting service offered by Airbus will help
improve the safety of landing operations at airports around the
world, leveraging the capabilities of its advanced ELISE (Exact
Landing Interference Simulation Environment) software.
A new technology developed by Airbus in partnership with EADS
Innovation Works – the research and development arm of Airbus
parent EADS – and France’s Ecole Nationale de
l'Aviation Civile civil aeronautics academy, claims to eliminate
disturbances to an airport’s ground-based Instrument Landing
System (ILS) signal – which can be sensitive to interference
caused by objects near the runway, including other aircraft,
buildings and construction elements.
In a news release, Airbus says that in addition to raising
safety levels during landing operations ... particularly in flying
conditions with low or no visibility ... ELISE also can enable
increased runway capacity as well as the optimisation of airside
land usage, allowing for “stealth” buildings to be
built nearby without disrupting the facility’s ILS. "Objects
close to a runway create 'multipath' signals by re-routing the
electro-magnetic pulse emitted by an ILS antenna," explained
Laurent Evain, the ELISE programme’s technical manager. "This
confuses an approaching aircraft and can lead to deviation from its
path, exposing it to risk of lateral veer-off. ELISE eliminates
that risk."
The technology has been offered as an Airbus consulting service
since the beginning of 2012. To date, the ELISE team has received a
contract for Vienna International Airport, and it is in advanced
discussions with airports in Bahrain, Malta and Warsaw, Poland.
ELISE also is being used by the International Civil Aviation
Organisation to support the updating of ILS regulations.
Airbus says ELISE already has proven its capabilities to support
airport operations, having successfully been deployed to predict
the double-deck A380’s effect on the Instrument Landing
System for Toulouse-Blagnac Airport – which is located near
Airbus’ headquarters in Toulouse, France.
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