About - ALBATROS HE

About

Context & Ambitions

As weather hazards are becoming more serious and frequent and other hazards are emerging through the gradual introduction of new technologies such as drones or new fuel and energy aircraft systems, there is a need to reassess current aircraft operating practices and infrastructures to ensure that the appropriate level of resilience exists faced with these new threats to ensure that current safety levels can be continuously improved.

Above all, ALBATROS aims to improve the resilience of aircraft and airports whilst increasing the survivability of passengers, crew and aviation-related workforces such as ground handlers and emergency personnel.

Context & Ambitions

As weather hazards are becoming more serious and frequent and other hazards are emerging through the gradual introduction of new technologies such as drones or new fuel and energy aircraft systems, there is a need to reassess current aircraft operating practices and infrastructures to ensure that the appropriate level of resilience exists faced with these new threats to ensure that current safety levels can be continuously improved. Above all, ALBATROS aims to improve the resilience of aircraft and airports whilst increasing the survivability of passengers, crew and aviation-related workforces such as ground handlers and emergency personnel.

Context & Ambitions

As weather hazards are becoming more serious and frequent and other hazards are emerging through the gradual introduction of new technologies such as drones or new fuel and energy aircraft systems, there is a need to reassess current aircraft operating practices and infrastructures to ensure that the appropriate level of resilience exists faced with these new threats to ensure that current safety levels can be continuously improved. Above all, ALBATROS aims to improve the resilience of aircraft and airports whilst increasing the survivability of passengers, crew and aviation-related workforces such as ground handlers and emergency personnel.

Validating Project Outcomes in real-world environments

ALBATROS seeks to validate and demonstrate its project outcomes in relevant environments through a series of 15 exercises. Four distinct validation methodologies will be employed: workshop materials, airport exercises, real-time simulation, and laboratory testing.

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Workshop, tabletop exercise, low-fidelity simulation

Demo 1 New Hazards in aviation: Safety assessment studies focusing on new and emerging hazards in aviation, including weather-related events and risks associated with electric-hydrogen powered aircraft and new aircraft entrants.

Demo 6 Predict weather hazards: This activity will address extreme weather event scenarios impacting Europe. Weather forecasting experts and aviation specialists will collaborate to produce realistic services and materials for airport, cockpit, and air traffic management simulations.

Demo 8 Cosmic rays and space weather: Space weather and cosmic radiation can impact the performance and reliability of space-borne, ground-based or airborne systems. This activity aims to provide airliners with practical guidance and recommendations to mitigate these hazards in operations and in safety regulations.

Demo 11 Certification: This activity will involve authorities, operational experts, and standards development organizations to share lessons learned from ALBATROS. The goal is to standardize rescue procedures, airport set-ups, operations enhancements, and aircraft design features.

Demo 12 Climate change safety risks: This activity will analyse and evaluate the applicability of risk matrix to assess the potential impact of climatological change of a meteorological variable on flight safety and flight operations at the airports.

Real-time simulation

Demo 3 Handling of Hazards: This simulation will analyze and assess flight crew performance during emergencies involving electric engines and alternate fuel engines. It will also evaluate the effectiveness of the newly developed procedures and HMI.

Demo 7 Airport operations in emerging events: The simulation focuses on coordinated airport operations planning during crises and emergencies. It analyzes airport performance, including delays, resource consumption, and recovery time, to optimize crisis response and resilience

Airport Exercises

Demo 2 Net zero aircraft evacuation: Prepare first responders to rescue and evacuate occupants from an aircraft with a novel hybrid electric propulsion system. Identify technologies and procedures to mitigate risks for first responders and increase occupant survivability.

Demo 4 Safe emergency landing: Validate emergency flight procedures and a digital toolkit for decision support during events involving commercial aircraft with electric propulsion or alternative fuels. Assess the effectiveness of developed emergency protocols and the toolkit’s utility for crisis teams and airport emergency personnel.

Demo 10 Handling fire events: Validate and demonstrate concepts, technologies, decision support tools, and best practices for airport emergency staff to handle electric/hydrogen fires.

Demo 13 Safety & emergency training: New training courses and material will be developed for emergency response to fires with electric-hydrogen powered aircraft. This activity will serve to assess the first responders’ preparation and reaction, and to validate training modalities, teaching methods, analysis and evaluation methods.

Demo 14 Drones for emergency management: This activity aims at assessing the effective utilization of drones with aerial imaging capabilities for managing aircraft incidents and accidents, and support decision making by first responders.

Demo 15 Electromagnetic risks: Development and evaluation of a surveillance system to protect against Electromagnetic risks. The demonstration will assess the effectiveness of the EM surveillance system (ZLIF-Air) in detecting electromagnetic abnormal events nearby airport infrastructures dedicated to H2 storage.

Laboratory testing

Demo 5 HMEPN: Many new aircraft will use electric power for propulsion. This activity will assess the effectiveness of a newly developed health monitoring system (HMEPN) for the electric power network.

Demo 9 Prevent fire events: Validate the effectiveness of newly developed Fibre Bragg Grating sensors in detecting hydrogen leakage from fuel tanks and temperatures outside the normal operating range.

Advisory Board

An international group of stakeholders representing renowned aviation organizations advises the Albatros project. The Advisory Board Members support the project activities providing domain specific feedback. The opinions collected are not intended to represent the views of the organization, but to reflect those of the individual.

Advisory Board

An international group of stakeholders representing renowned aviation organizations advises the Albatros project. The Advisory Board Members support the project activities providing domain specific feedback. The opinions collected are not intended to represent the views of the organization, but to reflect those of the individual.

Latest news

The value of data sharing in the future of aviation

The aviation industry has made great strides in ensuring the safety of passengers and crew

Assuring safety levels despite advancements in aviation

Maintaining high safety levels in the transportation sector is of primary importance in every sub-domain,

Let’s ALBATROS begin!

In October 2022, the Albatros project launched its activities with a meeting attended by the

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Latest news

The value of data sharing in the future of aviation

The aviation industry has made great strides in ensuring the safety of passengers and crew

Assuring safety levels despite advancements in aviation

Maintaining high safety levels in the transportation sector is of primary importance in every sub-domain,

Let’s ALBATROS begin!

In October 2022, the Albatros project launched its activities with a meeting attended by the

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