Workshops

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Workshop A: Setting up a unified training unit in the region
Workshop B: An in depth analysis of Airspace management in the Middle East region
Workshop C: Optimising airspace in constrained environments
Workshop D: Moving air traffic management towards a performance based approach

Pre - Conference Workshops: Sunday 4th October 2009

09.00 - 12:00 Workshop A: Setting up a unified training unit in the region

This interactive workshop will provide you with the ability to understand effective training and development programmes for air traffic controllers in the region. By joining this workshop you will explore best practice (HR) strategies for the comprehensive training of air traffic controllers.

At this workshop you will gain awareness of how to set up unified training units that allow you to:

Assess and implement effective training and development programmes for air traffic controllers in the Middle East region:

Ab Initio selection, recruitment and training
ATFM training – appraise the future
Safety management training
PBN training

Your workshop leader:

Bruce Heesterman is General Manager Airways International in Airways New Zealand. Bruce lead the operational transformation including the design and deployment of a large range of logistics automation and operational systems throughout New Zealand, Malaysia, South Africa, Malta and Argentina. Bruce was GM Operations, responsible for over 4500 staff collecting, sorting and delivering one billion addressed items per year before leading Transend Worldwide Limited a logistics consulting company. In 2005 Bruce was appointed to the position of Group Manager International, with Airways New Zealand and is a Director of its subsidiary company Aviation English Services as well as a not-for-profit company that trains search and rescue practitioners. Bruce has led Airways International’s expansion of its global ANSP consulting business successfully securing long-term roles across Asia and in the Gulf States including the sale of its patented revenue management software to several significant ANPS’s. Airways International provides ATC recruitment and training to a wide range of customers and has amongst the world’s most effective ATC training programme.

13.00 - 16:00 Workshop B: An in depth analysis of Airspace management in the Middle East region

Airspace management plays a key role in designing and restructuring solutions for air traffic management. By attending this workshop you will be able to identify the key problems in airspace management and resolve them through airspace changes or other means.

At this workshop you will gain awareness of coordination of airspace planning, allowing you to:

Discuss airspace modeling and future practices
Assess current issues and challenges of airspace capacity
Exploit the importance of stakeholders cooperation
Analyse coordination difficulties
Tackle regional challenges

Your workshop leader:

Ibrahim B. AlJabri is a Manager of Airspace Management in General Authority of Civil Aviation, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. As manager of Airspace Management, Mr. AlJabri manages the design and planning of the Saudi airspace in coordination with various customers and stakeholders to ensure optimum air traffic management and coordinates with customers and stakeholders (air operators, general aviation, military, others.) Prior to his current assignment, he was the manager of ATS Units where he lead and managed the ATS units at the Saudi airports to ensure the provision of optimum air traffic services in compliance with adopted guidelines and procedures. Previously, Mr. AlJabri was a Technical expert to the Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Montreal, Canada. He obtained his Master degree of Business Administration in Aviation "International Aviation MBA" at John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada. Mr. AlJabri started his career in 1990 as an Air Traffic Controller and spent 9 years as Air Traffic Controller and training officer at King Abdulaziz International Airport Jeddah and Training Instructor in the civil aviation sectors within Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. During that period he obtained his Bachelor degree of Science in Business Administration, at the Faculty of Economics & Administration, King Abdulaziz University, KSA. In addition, Mr. AlJabri chairs and participates in several international and regional civil aviation organisations, working in groups such as ICAO, CANSO, ACAC.

Post - Conference Workshops: Wednesday 7th October 2009

09.00 - 12:00 Workshop C: Optimising airspace in constrained environments

Designing “optimal” airspace is a complicated process that must take into account a variety of different variables and constraints and satisfy a large number of stakeholders. The constraints to airspace design can be very challenging and are often hard to define and quantify. The inability to properly capture these constraints could result in an airspace design that does not meet requirements and may not even be implementable. A clear process capturing all phases of airspace design - from characterising the initial problem to post-implementation evaluation - is essential to ensure effective design. This workshop will describe the process used in the United States (U.S.) by presenting case studies of its application.

In particular, the workshop will cover:

The airspace design process described in the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) Airspace Management Handbook including tools, metrics and data sources typically used
Specific examples of how the use of this process was used to resolve airspace issues in the U.S.
Lessons learned from applying the process and from post-implementation evaluations

Your workshop leader:

Prakash Subramanian is currently a Lead Engineer in the Airspace and Airport Analysis department at The MITRE Corporation’s Center for Advanced Aviation System Development (CAASD), based in McLean, Virginia, near Washington DC, U.S.A. He is also Project Team Manager for the department’s International Air Traffic Control (ATC) and Airspace Analysis group and coordinates a diverse work program including capacity analyses, analysis and design of ATC procedures and terminal and en route airspace design. Since joining MITRE, Mr. Subramanian has worked as a technical lead on a variety of projects for US and international sponsors. Prior to joining MITRE, Mr. Subramanian spent 4 years at Jacobs Consultancy (formerly Leigh Fisher Associates) near Washington D.C., working on multiple projects requiring airfield and airspace simulation and economic analyses of airfield developments for a variety of US and international clients. Mr. Subramanian holds an MBA in Aviation from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL and a BS in Physics from Chennai University, India.

13.00 - 16:00 Workshop D: Moving air traffic management towards a performance based approach

Creating a Functional Airspace Block - FAB - in the core area of Europe is in itself a very challenging task for many stakeholders involved in the process. Decision makers from the States and Air Navigation Service Providers are asking for a performance based approach in order to select best solutions in many different areas. The European Single European Sky II Regulation also imposes the need to create a robust performance framework for Functional Airspace Blocks. Implementing such requirement within the foreseeable future leads to a major activity within the FAB Europe Central project. The aim of the workshop is to share practical experience on setting up the system and to present a generic FAB case.

In particular, this workshop will cover:

The background and origin of the requirements
The organisation, process and method of working used within a FAB context
The FABEC example, feasibility study and implementation phase
Eurocontrol evaluation of FAB contribution to performance

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