The process of managing the flight of an aircraft in a safe and efficient manner
requires an air traffic system, based on three functions: Communication,
Navigation and Surveillance.
In the early eighties, ICAO set up a commission called
FANS (future air navigation systems), in order to study the existing infrastructure,
proposals, to anticipate the growing evolution of air traffic, to implement
implement a new concept and new technologies and make
recommendations with the aim of coordinating the evolution of the development of the
Air Navigation. The conclusion of this commission was:
Limitation of direct spread, difficulty for different reasons
(topography, etc.) implementation of CNS means, limitation of communication
per channel as well as the gap observed in Air–Ground communications, which are the
automated system base support. The commission concluded that the limits of the
current systems are intrinsic and that the problem can only be solved by
a new CNS system or the exploitation of satellite technology and the
data transmission (DATA LINK) are the only solution. The three functions
(Communication, Navigation and Surveillance) will be increasingly dependent.
ICAO calls this system CNS/ATM. So far, the community of
civil aeronautics does not have, at the national or international level, training
structured to accompany the technical evolutions of the systems of
CNS.
This Master trains in the various satellite technologies applicable to
Communications, Navigation and Surveillance (CNS) issues. They are
examined from an air traffic management perspective. The Department
of aeronautics integrates all the skills of the field making it possible to propose
a summary of the subject.