Aeronautical Communications - An Important Enabler for Risk Mitigation

Kurzfassung

This presentation is a tutorial on aeronautical communications and intends to give an overview of both the current state-of-the-art and the initiated/planned developments in communications for Air-Traffic Management (ATM). Communication is an important enabler for future ATM strategies as defined within SESAR (Europe) or NextGen (US). Therefore, several activities for improving the state-of-the-art in aeronautical communications are currently in progress with the goal to increase connectivity between ground and aircraft as well as among aircraft themselves. Future aeronautical communication systems also play an important role with respect to future applications as considered for risk mitigation. For example, the implementation of an aviation meteorological information system for timely provision of meteorological data to flight crews is only possible if powerful data link communication systems and/or aeronautical communication networks are available.