SBAS Implementation in the regions of ACAC and ASECNA

FP7-GALILEO-2008-4.3.1 / FP7-GALILEO-2008-4.3.4 Project with Community research funding

Introduction
SIRAJ (October 2010 April 2012) is a project funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework program.

Main objective: to evaluate the opportunities for EGNOS service extension to the areas covered by the ACAC and ASECNA, in the Civil Aviation domain.

Part of this evaluation consists of APV/SBAS Safety Cases of each airport.

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Definition APV SBAS (Satellite Based Augmentation System) is an extension of RNAV (GNSS) system. It provides more specific information, more accurate guidance than non-precision systems and the major benefit compared to non-precision: final approach vertical guidance. EGNOS System In Europe, it is supported by EGNOS system (European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service). It consists of three geostationary satellites and a network of ground stations. EGNOS achieves its aim by transmitting a signal containing information on the reliability and accuracy of the positioning signals sent out by GPS. It allows users to determine their position to within 1.5 meters.

European SBAS system has the following advantages: Optimized approach routing from various arrival directions Improved track keeping Use of more flexible route and procedure designs Limited need for ground infrastructure Can be implemented in areas where ILS cannot be sited for terrain or obstacle reasons Can provide approaches to more runways without additional infrastructure costs Increase usability of many airports

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Description
According to the European Commission regulation N 2096/2005, any change in ATM system needs safety analysis. In this context, the implementation of an APV SBAS procedure requires a safety assessment.

A Safety Case consists of providing the demonstrable evidences that the APV SBAS approach procedure implemented at the airport is sufficiently safe in normal conditions and under failure conditions. The level of safety maintained from introduction to service and during the procedure is operational.

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Methodology
EUROCONTROL has developed a generic safety assessment for the use of APV SBAS operations in Europe. The methodology used within this safety assessment is derived from the process specifications defined within the EUROCONTROL Safety Assessment Methodology (SAM). The approach is based on the development of a Functional Hazard Analysis (FHA), a Preliminary System Safety Analysis (PSSA) and a System Safety Analysis (SSA).

Safety Case FHA PSSA SSA

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Safety Case Methodology

Safety Case Methodology SAM Methodology is based on the following steps:
Identification of hazards and mitigations Operational environment analysis

Safety Objectives

Safety Requirements

Implementation

Migration

On-going operations

FHA
PSSA
Fault trees analysis Hazard identification

PSSA
FHA
Event trees analysis Risk Trees analysis

SSA

SAM Tie-bow:

Cause Cause Cause Safeguard Cause Safeguard

Hazard

Barrier
Success Failure

Barrier
Success Failure Success Failure

Outcome No effect Missed approach Missed approach Accident

TLS

SAFETY REQUIREMENTS

SAFETY OBJECTIVES

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1. Overall Safety Arguments - FHA
Main safety arguments have to be established to ensure that the procedure and the APV/SBAS approaches are going to be safe. The aim of the Safety Case is to demonstrate that the use of APV SBAS approach procedures will be acceptably safe in operational service at the airport. Risk of accident shall not be greater than the one that currently exists at the airport and shall be reduced as far as reasonably practicable.

2. Operational Environment Description (OED) - FHA

Description of airport Operational Environment. Aspects related to APV/SBAS approaches: terrain, meteorology, airport configuration, navigation aids, infrastructure, traffic analysis, etc EUROCONTROL documents establish basic needs for APV/SBAS approaches related to the operational environment. - Concept of Operations for APV SBAS Approach (CONOPS) - Operational and Functional Model of LPV (FUN)

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Examples of CONOPS assumptions:
Missed approach is supported by GNSS (Reversion to "GPS only -lateral only- guidance is taken into account in the procedure design criteria. A local safety assessment might contradict this. In case of failure of GNSS, contingency procedures specific to each approach/airport will have to be defined).

Each RNAV/GNSS approach chart includes a LNAV minima line (a RNAV/GNSS approach chart encompasses at least a LNAV procedure)

Examples of Functional Model assumptions:

A mid and long term prediction of GNSS service is provided to aircrew All aircraft and aircrew approved to conduct APV SBAS should be prepared to be asked to intercept the final approach track from a radar vector on ATC demand

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3. Hazard Identification - FHA
Hazards are the consequences of failures within the system, combination of failures and interactions with other systems and external events in the environment of operation. All identifications and analysis have been established through brainstorming based on APV generic safety case establishes general hazards. The brainstorming group is composed of Pilots, ATCOs, Flight Procedure Designers and safety experts. Steps to develop in this phase: To identify potential hazards that may appear at an APV/SBAS approach. - The exposure time to the hazard - The ability to detect the hazard and the external event occurrence - The rate of development of the hazard (sudden, fast or slow) To analyse every possible mitigation that may avoid the hazard or decrease its severity. To study the worst credible scenario for each hazard. To establish the severity class depending on the ending of each scenario.

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3. Hazard Identification - FHA
Hazards analyzed by EUROCONTROL for an APV/SBAS approach. Safety case Most probable hazards to appear at an APV/SBAS approach OH1. Flying low while intercepting the final approach OH2. Attempting to intercept the final approach path from above Comment

Aircraft wrongly flying towards FAWP at a lower altitude than the approach procedure minima The conditions leading to this hazard are either failure to laterally intercept the final approach track or aircraft at too high altitude prior to FAWP. In both cases aircrew fails to intercept the glide slope and, instead of launching a MA, decides to intercept it from above, in violation of the normal procedure. The aircraft is not on the correct final approach path due to an incorrect path, incorrect position estimation, incorrect guidance, or incorrect maneuvering The aircraft descends below DA while aircrew has no visual contact because they might have selected a wrong approach, obtained a wrong QNH, used the wrong DA, etc. Failure to follow the expected/instructed flight profile during a missed approach

OH3. Failure to follow the correct final approach path OH4. Descending below DA without visual OH5. Failure to execute correct Missed Approach

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3. Hazard Identification - FHA
External Mitigation Means (EMMs) are barriers outside the system being assessed which reduce the probabilities of the hazard effects to occur (last-moment safeguards enabling detection of hazards) or reduce the severity of the effects. EMMs are taken into account when assigning the severities to the hazard effects. The EMMs may work fully or partly on the hazard itself.

External Mitigations
EMM1 EMM2 EMM3 EMM4 EMM5 EMM6 EMM7 EMM8

Description
Deviation is not towards obstacles Deviation is not towards another aircraft Recovery via ATC detection-radar Recovery with visual cues Approach is stabilizing Missed approach is initiated External conditions (dry or long runway) Recovery via aircrew detection on board

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3. Hazard Identification - FHA
The worst credible effect in the APV/SBAS approach procedure should determine the severity class leading to the setting of the Safety Objective. The worst case scenario analyzes and identifies all possible outcomes for each hazard. The worst outcome will generate the worst scenario and severity will be established to each hazard depending on the results.

Severity Classification (SC) Severity 1 Severity 2

Effects Accidents Serious Incidents

Frequency EXTREMELY RARE RARE

Severity 3
Severity 4 Severity 5

Major Incidents
Significant Incidents No effect on safety

OCCASIONAL
LIKELY NUMEROUS

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3. Hazard Identification - FHA
Event tree for OH3 at Dakar airport.
Fly low while intercepting the glide slope Deviation is not towards obstacle Recovery via ATC detection - radar Recovery with Visual cues Consequence Frequency

Always

Highly Probable Success Null

Null Null

Probable Missed Approach or Safe Landing

Highly Probable

Success

Null

Missed Approach or Safe Landing

Null

Success Failure:OH3 Failure Failure Failure

Missed Approach or Safe Landing

Null

CFIT

Null

Success Null Failure

Missed Approach or Safe Landing

Improbable

CFIT

Improbable

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4. Specification of Safety Objectives FHA
Safety Objectives have to be established after identifying all possible hazards with their respective worst credible scenario. Safety Objectives state the frequency with which a specific hazard might appear. For SIRAJ Safety Cases all frequency values considered are qualitative. ESARR4 document establishes the maximum frequency for each Severity Class

Severity class of the Worst Credible hazard effect

SC1 SC2 SC3 SC4 SC5

Qualitative frequency

Extremely rare Rare Occasional Likely Numerous

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5. Specification of Safety Requirements - PSSA
Logical architecture description: A document derived from EUROCONTROL LPV safety assesment facilitates a description of the LPV system. It explains the types of LPV systems and its implementation on the aircraft. Functional Safety Requirements (SR): Function Safety Requirements are placed on the system architecture. They have the purpose of minimizing the level of risk, as low as reasonably practical, ensuring the operation of each safety function within the APV SBAS operations at the airport. They are based on the logical model stated by EUROCONTROL. Safety Requirements for Integrity (IR): This kind of requirements are applied when a possible Hazard occurs. The main purpose of these requirements is to mitigate the frequency of these hazards and satisfy the Safety Objectives, established before. Both groups of Safety Requirements can be classified as: - Human Operators - Equipment - APV /SBAS approach procedure - Environment and others

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6. Safety Requirement Implementation - PSSA
After establishing and defining the Safety Requirements, the implementation inside the airport environment has to be acceptably safe. Safety Requirements are divided into four groups: - Airspace / APV procedure - ATC or AFIS (equipment, training and procedures) - Aircraft and aircrew (equipment, training and procedures) - Environment and others This section explains the introduction of the Safety Requirements into the airport. It also specifies the responsible group or authority that must apply each requirement. An example of these processes is as follows:
SR. No. SR.4 Description The aircraft operator shall ensure that the database loaded onto the aircraft navigation system is current and complete. The procedure designer shall get specific training regarding the design, the process and the use of SW tool supporting FAS generation. Implementation The operator should provide the company procedures for upgrading aircraft database and a subscription for maintenance. The procedure designer should be able to certificate and demonstrate training in the use of SW tools for APV SBAS design and generation of the FAS data block. Training is given by ASECNA. Authority in charge Airlines

SR.10

ANSP (ASECNA)

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7. Migration to APV/SBAS procedures - PSSA
This part satisfies the main argument and the main criteria when the migration to the new APV SBAS is carried out. The migration to the APV/SBAS procedure has to be acceptably safe.

8. On-Going operations of APV/SBAS procedure - SSA

Actions to carry out during on-going operations:

1. Continuous monitoring. 2. Safety performance improvement. To check, analyze and solve any new hazard and improve current safety requirements. 3. Upgrades. Study ESSP status reports and check for upgrades within the EGNOS satellites signal. APV SBAS operations must only be used when enough EGNOS signal is available for this kind of approaches. 4. Monitoring system in place, operation and maintenance. Air navigation service provider and aerodrome operator are required to clearly demonstrate that the monitoring system is in place. Operation and maintenance of this system have to be managed by trained staff. 5. Airspace modifications. Safety Requirements and Safety Objectives have to be revised and changed if necessary for this procedure. 6. Correct procedures. 7. Incidents records and analysis.

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8. On-Going operations of APV/SBAS procedure - SSA
Incidents and accidents may occur while applying APV SBAS procedures. It is necessary to establish a process to report and investigate these incidents. 1. Safety Incidents Reporting Process. An implemented system has to perform continuous safety reporting to detect, notify, collect and analyze all data from these unusual occurrences. It is also responsible for investigating the causes that originated the incident and suggesting recommendations to avoid it. 2. Incidents Reports. In case of an incident or accident, it is necessary to report, record, study and analyze the case. The incident report has to be very specific and complete. All information has to be gathered together in order to analyze it. EUROCONTROL provides generic incident reports. 3. Corrective Actions. The incident reports have to provide solutions and new measures to avoid these incidents, learned lessons. All modifications and new measures have to be proved safe for APV SBAS approaches.

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SIRAJ Project has studied APV/SBAS approach Safety Cases for the following airports: - Al-Hoceima Airport, Morocco (ASECNA region) - Lopold Sdar Senghor Airport, Dakar, Senegal (ASECNA region) - Najran domestic Airport, Saudi Arabia (ACAC region)

Dakar

Al-Hoceima
Najran

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Al-Hoceima SC
Safety Case characteristics: - Runway: 17/35 (2500 x 45m) - Radar: No radar available. - Approach lights: Threshold and edge lights. - Obstacles: No significant obstacles. - Navigation aids: VOR/DME available for RWY17.

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Al-Hoceima SC
Safety Case characteristics: - Does it satisfy the CONOPS Document?: Some statements that are not completely valid have been added to the Safety Requirements of the APV/SBAS procedure.

- Does it satisfy the Functional Model Document?: All statements are valid for this airport.
- Other aspects: this Safety Case includes an additional possible hazard: Interference of the trajectory with Al-Hoceima town, Spanish prohibited area and British airspace.

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Dakar SC
Safety Case characteristics: - Runway: Two runways. The one chosen for APV/SBAS approaches is Runway 18/36 (3490 x 45m) - Radar: Radar is available. No radar vectoring is provided. - Approach lights: Threshold and edge lights. - Obstacles: Few obstacles on both thresholds. - Navigation aids: VOR/DME, ALD/DME and NDB . ILS is available for RWY36. - Does it satisfy the CONOPS Document?: All statements are valid for this airport. - Does it satisfy the Functional Document?: All statements are valid. Model

- Other aspects: Long Runway helps external mitigations.

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Najran SC
Safety Case characteristics: - Runway: 06/24 (3045 x 45m) - Radar: No radar available. AFIS in charge of TWR. - Approach lights: Threshold and edge lights. No approach lights available. - Obstacles: Few obstacles on both thresholds. - Navigation aids: VOR/DME for both thresholds and ILS/DME available for RWY06. - Does it satisfy the CONOPS Document?: All statements are valid for this airport. - Does it satisfy the Functional Model Document?: All statements are valid for this airport. - Other aspects: None.

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