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Opportunities in aviation and GPS
In general project costs should be categorised under three headings:
- investment costs, associated with the acquisition of equipment, property, services, operating start-up costs, and other one-off expenditure for the project;
- operating costs comprising: staff - internal/external, civil/ military; operations - maintenance & repair, materials,
supplies, utilities and other services; overhead -administration, personnel, training;
- transition costs occur where it is necessary to maintain parts of the current system during the transition period to a new system.
- The major cost could fall into the following: ( not exhaustive )
Note: 1. Blocks 3,8 and 13 are no longer
2. The flows from the CNS/ATM System to the Search and Rescue Organisation, to Accident/Incident investigation Authorities, as described in the figure - final and Context Model
(in Chapter 3, Volume 1), are not explicitly indicated
3. The flow from Airport Operators to the CNS/ATM System, as described in the figure - final
Scope and Context Model (in Chapter 3, Volume 1), is not
ATC Service Providers
- CNS ATM equipment investment
- Investment in present technology
- Maintenance and Operational
- Purchases of intermediate services
- Retraining
- Decommissioning of existing systems Staff redeployment
Aircraft Operators
- CNS ATM equipment investment
- Investment in present technology
- Maintenance
- Purchases of intermediate services
- Retraining
The potential benefits of a project should be identified and listed:
- ATM service provider and Airline cost savings
- Airspace capacity benefits
- Reduction in delays
- System reliability benefits
- Safety benefits
- Upgradability
- Contingency
- International commitments;
- Environmental benefits.
The main Functional Blocks of the CNS/ATM system are those identified below:
- Airborne CNS/ ATM Component;
- Aeronautical Environment Processing;
- Air Traffic Flow Management;
- Surveillance;
- Flight Data Processing;
- ATC Tools;
- Communications;
- Navigation;
- CNS/ATM Support;
- Airspace Management.
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