To significantly advance the following development priority:
- FR-2 Digital flight rules.
The following aspects are in scope:
- Evolution of ICAO Annex II (Rules of the Air):
This concept builds on previous SESAR research for the integration of IFR RPAS integration in airspace A-G, where the ICAO Annex II responsibility to exercise on-board vigilance to avoid collisions is fulfilled by using CDTI traffic information instead of the traditional out-the-window vigilance used by crewed aircraft. The objective is to analyse how previous research performed in SESAR 2020 PJ.13, PJ.13-W2 and ongoing project IRINA and provide foundational conceptual work to support the development and validation of a new flight rules concept ("digital flight rules") to complement VFR and IFR, to be applied in environments where all aircraft are equipped with cooperative surveillance.
The new rules should be applicable to certified aircraft, crewed or uncrewed, as a complement IFR and VFR to allow the use a certified on-board system to perform:
- The equivalent of the out-the-window vigilance required for all aircraft by Annex II, similar to what has been proposed by previous SESAR research for IFR RPAS, but now applicable to equipped crewed and uncrewed aircraft, VFR or IFR.
- The manoeuvres required to remain well clear as
