This handbook gives guidance to help ANSPs satisfy the CP1 requirements on eFPL consumption and usage.

Introduction

The SESAR Deployment Programme explains that ANSP shall

• Consume the eFPL via the Data Publication Service using the NM B2B services in support of information Exchange of FF-ICE;
• Consume the Flight Data Request Service, using the NM B2B services in support of information Exchange of FF-ICE;
• Consume the Notification Service using the NM B2B services in support of information Exchange of FF-ICE.

Requirements

Connection to NM B2B Services

An ANSP shall sign an agreement with NM in order to be able to consume the NM B2B Services.

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An ANSP shall request access to the following NM B2B services: Flight Data Request service, FlightManagement service, SubscriptionManagement service and to the FlightManagement serviceNotification Service.

• Rationale:
  • the FlightManagement service is the NM B2B service that supports the distribution of eFPLs to ANSPs. Its Publish/Subscribe (P/S) interface will push the eFPLs to the client applications having subscribed to the FF-ICE Flight Plan topic. The SubscriptionManagement service provides facilities to create and manage subscriptions, allowing the users to define which kind of data they are interested in receiving via the NM B2B Publish Subscribe Services. The consumption of these two services is therefore necessary for an ANSP in order to receive eFPLs.
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Development and testing

An ANSP shall develop and test its B2B client application for retrieving eFPLs using the PREOPS platform.

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• Guidance:
  • Any official request to apply the present procedure shall be officially addressed to the NM email address: NM.servicerequests@eurocontrol.int
  • The evaluation will be based on the test case "EFPL FILING (FIXM FORMAT) – TEST CASES" described in NM B2B's Business documentation for Flight Plan Filing
  • More details: https://ost.eurocontrol.int/sites/B2BWS/Shared%20Documents/7%20-%20Business%20Documentation/Flight%20Plan%20Filing%20Use%20Cases.pdf

Distribution of eFPL to ATS Units

ANSPs shall use the NM B2B Publish/Subscribe to receive the eFPLs filed by the eAUs and accepted by NM.

• Guidance:
  • Subscription topic “FLIGHT_PLANS”
  • Specify the flight set to be selected as the list of concerned ATS unit(s)
  • Specify the payload configuration to receive data in FIXM

Guidance on the requirements

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