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07-Mar-2010 VerifAvia, a verification body of greenhouse gas for the aviation sector, has been established
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28-Jun-2010 IATA criticizes lack of progress on volcanic ash issues in Europe [ATW]
28-Jan-2010 The solid business case for cutting carbon emissions [BusinessDay]
06-Dec-2009 The implications of the EU's ETS [Aircraft Commerce]
11-Oct-2010 ICAO members reach historic agreement on climate change [ATW]
12-Aug-2010 In a critical year for the Aviation EU ETS, European emissions fall in first half of 2010 compared to 2009 [GreenAir Online]
09-Aug-2010 EU ETS fears slow down aviation verification process [Flight International]
BASE Project
Project BASE (Business Aviation for a Sustainable Environment) seeks to understand how environmental constraints affect business jet operators and attempts to work out strategies on how to make business jet operations greener.
The project pursues three main objectives in line with CleanSky’s SGO ITD:
- Gather and analyze trajectory data from actual flights.
- Understand the current practices and operating costs of the business jet operators.
- Understand the costs of current and future environmental constraints applicable to the business jet operators and their expectations in terms of flight optimization.
For trajectory data, the consortium members will work with multiple operators (taxi, charter, corporate travel and shared ownership) to record FDR data on a variety of routes, aircraft (Falcon, Global Express, GulfStream, etc.) and approaches that are relevant for an environmental study. Data will then be analyzed and synthesized for use within the CleanSky simulator.
For operating costs and practices, the consortium members will use their existing knowledge and portfolio of business jet operator customers and contacts. They will survey existing best operating practices stressing in particular the role of pilots, dispatchers, flight ops engineers, and analyze the operating costs by business model.
They will also analyze the costs of environmental constraints and expectations of business aviation operators in terms of flight optimization and integrated solutions to alleviate the environmental constraints.
The consortium involves OpenAirlines and SustainAvia/VerifAvia who have extensive experience in aviation and the environment, FDR data analysis, flight ops & costs. Both companies have successfully collaborated on the CARING Project. They do regular business with the business jet operators (EU ETS verification) and have secured informal participation from several operators to the project.
Analyzing trajectories and emissions
BASE will record flight data parameters, second by second, from various business jets on actual flights. This data will then be analyzed with scientific and mathematic techniques to understand their variation and dispersion and find-out improvements in terms of fuel consumption, emissions (CO2, NOx, CO, HC) and noise. BASE expects to deliver short-term improvements (best-practices) as well as medium-term improvements (avionics).
Understanding environmental constraints & economic impact
BASE will survey all the existing and future environmental constraints worldwide applicable to business aviation, and will survey business jet operators to understand the cost impact of these regulations and how business jet operators adapt their strategy and operations.
BASE survey
The consortium members prepared a comprehensive survey that will soon be dispatched to more than 500 business aviation operators worldwide. Click here to complete the survey.
Each section of this survey contains carefully pre-selected questions which go to the heart of the research interest. The survey was designed such as to make the completion of the online form as easy as possible. It combines a limited number of qualitative and quantitative questions.
We are aware of the high value of confidentiality for business jet operators and guarantee that received individual information are retained under the highest possible data security and third-party access can only be granted if the operator explicitly agrees.
The outcome of the survey analysis will be compared with statements obtained during interviews with business aviation experts (operators, aircraft manufacturers and trade associations). The final paper promises new insights into business jet aviation cost structures and provides valuable information on how operators react on upcoming environmental constraints.
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