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TRACECA ETS Seminar
ENVISA organised the Aviation ETS and Climate Change Policy Seminar for TRACECA project on December 14-15 in Istanbul. Read more...
Clean Sky SGO ITD
ENVISA is on track to take part to joint research projects for the Clean Sky SGO (Systems for Green Operations) ITD starting early 2010. More details soon...
EUROCONTROL's INVENTAIR
ENVISA was mandated by EUROCONTROL to create a website dedicated to global aircraft emissions. The site will allow registered users to download and visualise worldwide emission grids based on WISDOM flight movement database.
Study of Optimisation Procedures for Decreasing the Impact of Noise – SOURDINE II
Dates: 2001 - 2004
Partners: Airbus France, AENA, INECO, ISDEFE, EUROCONTROL Experimental Centre, NLR, SICTA
Links: SOURDINE website
The SOURDINE II project developed environmentally friendly aircraft approach and departure procedures and validated them in terms of cost, safety, efficiency and operational feasibility.
While the first phase of the project focused on short and medium-term noise abatement procedures (NAPs), SOURDINE II investigated long term NAPs such as the Advanced Continuous Descent Approach.
A specific version of the Integrated Noise Model (INM) was issued in collaboration with the FAA and a Thrust-Based Emission Calculator (TBEC) was produced. ENVISA trained SOURDINE II partners on how to perform noise modelling using outputs from fast-time flight simulations. ENVISA was also in charge of assessing the emissions associated with candidate NAPs.