Refresher/Recurrent activities 2020

Dear Flight Procedure Design Community,

We have two events covering Recurrent/Refresher needs for 2020 at this time.

1. Recurrent/Refresher course at the ANI Training Center in Interlaken in March

5-day course to cover the essentials from AMDT 7 (refresher), AMDT 8 (recurrent) and give you an outlook to what will be coming in AMDT 9.

2. Recurrent Workshop at the ASAP premises in Pezinok in April

2.5-day Workshop to make sure you understand the material in AMDT 8. Depending on progress and time, refresh the AMDT 7 essentials and provide outlook to AMDT 9.

Details, exact dates, tuition fees and registration as always on the ANI website.

Check the new IFPDAVA Website

Dear IFPDAVA Members (and not-yet members),

We have updated the website www.ifpdava.org to respond to the decision at the 2019 General Assembly of the Association, where it was decided to establish a Member only Area with individual password establishment. This involved a transfer to a new host, which is now completed. If you already are a registered Member, you still have to re-register on the new website in order to receive your password and to get access to the Member area.
New potential Members can also register, the approval of the membership will be done by the Executive Board. It is usually quite quick. Please also note that some Members have not received an invoice for the 2019 fee yet. We apologize for the inconvenience but we are still having some issues with the banking. We want to provide some way to pay by credit card in order to avoid transaction fees. Thanks for the patience.

End of the Discussion Forum on the ANI website

Dear All,

The ANI website discussion forum was eventually used as an exchange platform between experts in the international community. It was always a project that was meant to be "perpetual", meaning it is not a platform where I answer questions but where the community answers questions. It usually worked well, thanks for any contribution. Recently, we noticed a significant increase in SpamBots trying to register, which was not the case for a long time. Also for some reason the code sitting on the server was corrupted and the admin control panel is no longer accessible. After giving the issue a bit of thought I decided to stop the service. With the establishment of IFPDAVA we have a means of international exchange on a face by face basis at the IFP Conference every year. I think that beats any forum. If a forum is still desired we will first let IFPDAVA decide and secondly host it on the IFPDAVA website. It will not be possible to transfer the old database to a new forum due to the corrected admin control panel. Thanks for understanding.

Refresher/Recurrent course - Hong Kong

Dates: September 30 - October 4, 2019
Location: Hong Kong International Aviation Academy
Tuition Fee: CHF 1800 per participant

We will be holding the above course covering PANS-OPS Amendments 7 and 8 and also the proposed Amendment 9 as communicated by State Letter. The course cannot be registered from the ANI website, please write us an email if you want to participate.

IFP QA Process Course in Tallinn/Estonia

We will provide a full IFP QA process course at the EANS premises in Tallinn. See the info about the course below. If you are interested in joining, please indicate so on training@ani.aero.
The dates are September 16 to 20, 2019, starting Monday midday, ending Friday midday.

Course duration:

4 working days, starting Monday midday, ending Friday midday.

Tuition fees:

CHF 1800 per participant

Course description:

This course deals with the more and more stringent requirements for QA in the development of Instrument Flight Procedures. It explains the QA process as set forth in ICAO doc. 9906 vol. 5 explaining all the required steps in the process. Furthermore the course provides an exemplary IFP design report, how it is created and what it should contain to ensure that all parties involved in the QA process have a complete and understandable document. Finally the course also points out what regulators should be checking when an IFP must be approved.

Topics covered:

Topic	Reference
Procedure Designer Qualifications and Training requirements	PANS-OPS vol. II QA Chapter
State Regulation of Procedure Design Service Providers	PANS-OPS vol. II QA Chapter
The IFP Process	PANS-OPS vol. II QA Chapter
The QA Process	ICAO doc. 9906 vol. 5
Documentation of a Flight Procedure	various real-world practices ICAO doc. 9906 vol. 5
Ground validation/Crosscheck	ICAO doc. 9906 vol. 5
Coordination with Flight Validation Pilots	ICAO doc. 9906 vol. 5
Cost issues, pre-production FMS Navigation Database etc.	ICAO doc. 9906 vol. 5
Submitting a complete documentation to the Regulator	ICAO doc. 9906 vol. 5
Regulator tasks/verification/approval	ICAO doc. 9906 vol. 5

Terminal Objectives:

• understand the QA process for IFP Design
• identify the interfaces with stakeholders in the different stages of the process
• establishing and documenting an agreed conceptual design
• documenting the IFP, createing a skeleton IFP report template
• documenting independent review, create a skeleton GV report template
• documenting periodic review, creating a skeleton PR report template

Target Audience:

- Flight Procedure Designers

- Regulators overseeing Flight Procedure Design Service Providers

Instructor:

Romano Germann, one of the most experienced flight procedure designers in Europe with records designing procedures in Switzerland for skyguide and for ANI Services PinS procedures in Switzerland, procedures at Amsterdam Airport, VSS assessments in Taiwan, as well as coaching procedure design students in practical aspects.

Bye Stadthaus - it is time to move on

Exactly 4 years ago ANI started the cooperation with René Schudel and the Stadthaus.  In the meantime we logged 72 instruction weeks there, several dinners and lunches and even held a full shebang ICAO IFPP meeting there. With the end of the spring Semester end of June this year, this successful cooperation comes to an end. Not that we had any problems there, the opposite is the case. We had brilliant 4 years. But it is time to move on. ANI soon moves to the new and own premises right next to Interlaken West, where we will start operations in August. It will be a state of the art training location with an infrastructure that will push the learning curve. Also we overhaul the training concept and will take it to the next level. Come and see.

Harder Challenge - Standings after spring term 2019

We have a couple of new competitors with outstanding times, showing that ANI Students are not only very clever but also very fit. The chance to make the top 20 ranking board with a time over an hour are shrinking to minimal right now :-)
Leader of the season 2019 is Haiyun Huang with 47'18" so far. But we only just started...
http://www.ani.aero/ani-harder-challenge.html

New ANI courses in the Fall Semester

I am currently writing the concept of two new courses that we will schedule in the Fall Semester.
The first one is "Regulating Flight Procedure Design", a one week course aimed at Regulators, helping them to perform their duties according to the State Responsibilities set forth in Annex 11 and all the consequences.
The second one is "PANS-OPS and IFP Design understanding for Managers". This is a course I long rated as unnecessary as I feared that it could be abused as a short cut for a full PANS-OPS IFP Design Training. In the mean time I think this will not be the case and in my opinion it is vital that Team Leaders, Section Chiefs and whatever they are called today have a rudimentary understanding of what is happening in their teams.
Watch out here for further information very soon. It is also highly likely that we will provide another advanced PBN course in the Fall Semester. Stay tuned.

IFP Conference Agenda published

The IFP Conference/3 takes place in Dublin at the Headquarters of the Irish Aviation Authority June 11-13, 2019. Note that the session on June 13 is dedicated to the General Assembly of the newly founded International Flight Procedure Design and Validation Association IFPDAVA (www.ifpdava.org, this is also where you can find the ToR of the association).
The event is jountly organised by the ANI and IFPDAVA. The program can be doenloaded from
the ANI website, where you can also register.

IFPDAVA Members benefit from a cheaper fee. Non-members can sign-up with the registration.
Members are entitled to send requests for the agenda or the General Assembly until April 30 please.
We look forward to seeing you in Dublin!

A job ad that is important for us - read on

The Federal Office of Civil Aviation in Switzerland announces the vacancy of a position that is quite important for ANI or maybe moreso for the subsidiary ANI Services. Because we will have to deal with this very person a lot. Please find the link to the job ad hereafter. The ad is available in German, French and Italian, three of the four official languages of Switzerland. If you do not master two of the three languages plus English, please do not even consider sending your application. If you fulfill the language requirements you are applying for a regulator job in Flight Procedure Design Oversight in an interesting environment with your office either in Bern or Zürich.

In Memoriam Jerry Robinson

Another Icon in the aviation industry has sadly left us. Jerry could only enjoy his retirement for a short period. Unforgotten are his anecdotes, his sharp mind, his contacts to the highest levels everywhere and especially his interest in the world, its history, its myths, its various cultures and languages. He kept asking me about words in Swiss German, so during a meeting in Montreux/Switzerland I found him a book explaining the Swiss German language in English and had it sent to his hotel room before the weekend. When I came back on Monday, Jerry greeted me in Swiss Germand and asked how my weekend was. In Dubai he went through the souk, where after an hour he got invited to about  five private homes for dinner and showed up at the meeting in a Kovtan the next day. Jerry wherever you are, I am sure you are already trying to find out everything about it. Save journey my friend.

ANI announces AMDT 8 and Regulatory Framework Workshop in Oslo

In cooperation with Avinor, who will be hosting this at their headquarters location in Oslo, we announce a workshop covering the upcoming Amendment 8 to PANS-OPS, sharing some implementation issues when it comes to Helicopter IFR operations and the considerations for establishing a Regulatory Framework according to doc. 10068.
So Procedure Designers, Regulators and any other stakeholders in the IFP Process are equally welcome to join and share their experiences (or inexperiences for that matter) with us. The event will be led by Beat Zimmermann and Robert Bukovics together.
Dates: August 15/16 2018
Participation fee: CHF 400
Registration and more info via the ANI website.
Rundown and times, as well as venue downloadable from there.

PANS-OPS training opportunity in Bucharest/Romania

This is to inform you that "Regional Air Suport", a young Romanian IFP company organizes a PANS-OPS training course with Greg Perris from New Zealand as the instructor. This is not an ANI operation, I just promised to assist the organizing company in promoting their event.
The course starts on July 16 and the first module is 4 weeks to cover all basics, ground based nav procedures. The second module is not scheduled yet, possibly in October for 2 weeks covering PBN. The price for both modules is 6700 €. Please DO NOT contact the ANI about this course, we cannot give any info.
Greg Perris the instructor is an experienced Flight Procedure Designer and the New Zealand Member of the IFPP.
For info, please contact http://www.regional.ro, Mr. Dorin Ivascu.

IFP Conference Barcelona - The final "final agenda"

All,
I needed to shuffle a few speakers because of travel constraints. So I moved some of the speakers to different days. All in all, we should be good to go now. See you soon! Agenda can be downloaded here.

IFP Conference Schedule Finalized

Dear All, you can download the (hopefully) final schedule and info from the ANI website.

Flight Procedure Designer vacancy in the UK

Check this link fur further information

IFP Conference Barcelona May 22-24, 2018 - UPDATE

We have confirmed the venue, Sala d' Empren at Barcelona Activa next to Glories Shopping Center. Furthermore, I can confirm some speakers. We will provide some continuity to last years conference. Attendees will remember that Dr. Yoshi Nakanishi, Associate Professor at Nagasaki University with a very long past in aviation as Chief Flight Procedure Designer has presented outcomes of his study "how Flight procedure Designers learn". He continued the study, part of which was also a survey made at the Lisbon conference. So this year, Yoshi will present the continuation of the study.

Then we had speeches from Martin Zillig to show database coding aspects in the PBN with xLS domain, followed by the cockpit side, shown by Airbus Avionics Engineer Patrice Rouquette.
This covered the first set of criteria for PBN in conjunction with xLS. This year we hope to have Robert Bukovics, the PBN Rapporteur of the IFPP giving an outlook on the next phase of the same criteria, namely RF legs to xLS. For continuity I would like to have Martin again to give some coding insight and then we will have Patrice showing the cockpit side for the new proposed criteria as well.

Other spekers will be Thomas Wede and Fabrizio Maracich, the topic will be the FVP perspective on reporting of Flight Procedures and information exchange between FVP and Designers.

I have some other requests made but cannot quite confirm yet. Check back for an update soon.

skyguide seeks Flight Procedure Designer

Swiss ANSP skyguide looks for an expert Flight Procedure Designer for their Geneva or the Zürich (Dübendorf) team. Details can be found here: Expert Instrument Flight Procedures (IFP) Design.

IFP Conference 2018

Dear All,
I must apologize for not having communicated earlier but those who attended the IFP Conference 2017 in Lisbon will remember that we said that the 2018 Conference will tentatively take place in Barcelona. After the political issues with the Catalonian Government I was not sure if it is a good idea to go ahead with the plan. Now I had some business in Barcelona and I can ensure everybody that it is absolutely no problem to hold the event in this beautiful city. Also I checked out the facilities for the Conference and they are perfect. So we will go ahead and hold the IFP Conference 2018 in Barcelone May 22 to 24 (Ending midday). I will soon have the respective section on the ANI Website where you will be able to download the infos and also directly register for the event.

FVP Recurrent

For the trained and State-approved FVPs recuurent training is as much needed as for Flight Procedure Designers. Check the Program of our new FVP Recurrent event held on a yearly basis.