In the fourth and final period the main technical and management activities performed related to several items.
The Demonstration Plan (DEMOP), i.e. contractual deliverable D1.1 the report that collects all the relevant information related to the foreseen Very Large Demonstration (VLD) aspects, was completed, issued and SJU approved.
Furthermore the Demonstration Report (DEMOR), i.e. contractual deliverable D1.4 the document that reports on all the demonstration outcomes, was delivered at 17th of April 2023, and SJU-approved. All technical WPs contributed intensely to both the DEMOP and DEMOR documents as well as to the Maturity Gate.
This Maturity Gate was held at 20th of April 2023. It had a successful outcome: TRL7 for all involved SESAR Solutions.
In order to achieve this WP2 first continued all the required preparatory work on the NATS demo, strongly supported by LEIDOS, EUROCONTROL and NLR (AT-ONE). This Pair-Wise Separation (PWS) / Minimum Radar Separation (MRS) 2.0 / Runway Occupancy Time (ROT) demonstration was successfully held by NATS in March 2023.
Related to the WP3 developments of the Wake Decay Plate lines by DLR (AT-ONE) and Austro Control (COOPANS), the backup plan was further executed. The actual plate line prototype was further industrialized jointly with company Lattix and would no longer be placed at the Vienna Airport itself but nearby at the antenna test area Raugenwarth.
The comprehensive measurement data collected at Vienna airport was analyzed in order to quantify the accelerated wake vortex decay in ground proximity and the resulting potential of reduced aircraft separation minima was estimated for several use cases.
All the developments needed to have the pre-industrialized plate line prototype installed over there were completed and a successful Open Day was held 14th of February 2023. Furthermore, a few months later a second plate line prototype was installed at DLR premises Oberpfaffenhofen. Contacts with the airports, like Frankfurt, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Schiphol, Vienna and Zürich were established to bring the plate line concept closer to deployment. Under WP4 EUROCONTROL and partners NLR and NATS coordinated with WP2 on common solutions including Static-PWS- for Arrivals (S-PWS-A) and ROCAT, performed related analysis methodology, and held a project-internal workshop in June 2023 on reducing MRS from 3.0/2.5 to 2.0 NM, addressing the current and evolution needs of regulatory provisions and procedures. Also, EUROCONTROL coordinated with and presented to EASA on the review of the EUROCONTROL safety case on RECAT-EU-PWS, and discussed a way forward for regulatory acceptance and publication.
Under WP5, the Runway Sequence Function (IRSF) was further industrialized by LFV, SINTEF and Arlanda Airport (SWEDAVIA).
The technical WPs prepared and executed the demonstrations.
Related to dissemination and communications, project SORT was present at the AirSpace Worlds Conference in Geneva (in March 2023). As mentioned a successful Open Day was organized in February by Austro Control at their local Tower premises and by DLR on the plate line demo.
On 15th of June 2023 NATS organized a SESAR Arrival Management Streaming and Pair-Wise Open day jointly with the SESAR projects PJ.37-ITARO and PJ.01-EAD.
These event were all accompanied with social media outings.
Finally and noteworthy to mention is that the project has achieved all its contractual goals set out after the Covid19 contract revision.
