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Regulation (EU) No 139/2014 – Additional obstacles on the way to the initial certification unavoidable?

The initial certification in accordance with the regulation (EU) No 139/2014 comes with many organisational changes and a more or less easy to handle workload for the airports as well as the competent authorities.

Until the latest date for the initial certification (July, 31st 2014) the compliance management will be capable to satisfy the needs that come with different changes which come with more or less additional expenses independently of the project progress of the respective airport.

Each organisation is exposed to changes on regulations and in need of a systematic long term change- or version management to comply with these changes as they become effective.

Unfortunately the initial certification is affected by such complications. Is there no way to at least keep the regulation (EU) No 139/2014 applicable until 2017?

No one intends to keep the current regulation forever, but if the processing of hundreds of tasks is done and coordinated with the authorities, then it is organisationally, economically and lawful disputable to change the legal foundations. The macroeconomic negative effect of insufficient clarity, continuity and predictability of legal norms is well known.

With the ED decision 2016/009/R EASA has put changes into force by May, 25th 2016, which fortunately do not come with high implementation expenses for most airports.

http://www.easa.europa.eu/document-library/acceptable-means-of-compliance-and-guidance-materials/amcgm-aerodromes-amendment-1

But unfortunately there are signs of changes of much greater impact on the horizon:

http://www.easa.europa.eu/document-library/notices-of-proposed-amendment/npa-2016-04

Even is this document is not the legally binding final version and the date of coming into force is not clear yet, it is worthy for airports to try and identify potential deviations.

In any case our eControl customers can rely on our support. Our version packages for ED decision 2016/009/R are ready now - contact us.

Onepager „eControl mobile – Integration concept“ released

From now on the onepager „ eControl mobile – Integration concept“ is available. This document addresses mainly to system engineers and their departments. The diagram enables a simple checking, whether the eControl mobile architecture matches with the existing IT infrastructure.

Mobile systems often imply additional requirements for the system engineering. eControl mobile is based on recognized technology standards which are already in use on customer-side – this ensures a minimum of required expenses.

You can download the onepeager here.

To get in touch with us, fell free to use our contact form - we will be happy to examine your technical details non-bindingly.

eControl 4.4 – Map module migration to the WGS84 standard

The introduction of eControl mobile requires GPS coordinates interpretation in accordance with the WGS84 standard.

The proprietary X/Y coordinate system which is used until version 4.4 can be converted to WGS84 standard after some minor preparatory work.

A technical concept paper for the migration of map data, map master data and location master data is available upon request.

Bonjour Airport Saarbrücken!

The international commercial airport of the Saarland capital Saarbrücken adopts eControl for its operation-, safety-, compliance- and qualification management divisions.

The compliance management will specifically focus on the regulation (EU) 139/2014 and the initial certification which has to be completed until December, 31st 2017.

The other modules simplify the management of airside processes and ease the long term proof of compliance.

The regulatory requirements have to be fulfilled regardless of the scale of the commercial airport. The reduction of the workload on all involved personell has been the one of the top decision criterions for the introduction of eControl aviation.

Successful mobile event, incident and control management

For a successful mobile data entry system, the following things must be observed:

• Mobile devices must be easy to use
• The user interface should be self-explanatory
• Automation as technically possible and sensible
• The software has to cover all events, incidents and routine controls that may occur
• No separate user administration
• Mobile forms have to be a simplified form of the forms on the PC
• 100% availability, always and everywhere, online and offline
• The software must comply with the standards of the operating system without restrictions
• Multi-user capability - every user should be able to use every terminal device at any time
• The software should require only minimal configuration workload and administrative tasks
• Data transfer has to be reliable and complete
• The documentation of mobile data entry must be fully audit-proof

Further information on this topic and how the mobile data entry software eControl mobile complies with these tasks, can be found in our white paper: "Success factors of mobile data entry systems" in the documents section.