ENAV has become the first service provider to use the EAD Static and Dynamic Data (SDD) Service. It is now therefore able to exchange aeronautical information data with EAD by using the aeronautical information exchange model (AIXM) 5.1.

This major achievement for both ENAV and EUROCONTROL-EAD was completed mid-May of this year and is the outcome of a very successful project, started in April 2021. ENAV has been a ‘business-to-business (B2B) data provider of EAD since September 2009 and used to exchange data in the former AIXM 4.5 format.

AIXM 5.1 offers a more refined and structured manner of encoding data and as such offers many more perspectives for the exchange of aeronautical information in a digitalised manner. The exchange of static and dynamic data in AIXM 5.1 is a key enabler for digital NOTAM, (ICAO) Digital Data Sets and for other enhancements, facilitating at the same time the optimisation of Network operations in full compliancewith regulatory requirements.

The transition of EAD Data Providers to AIXM 5.1 is in line with the digital transformation journey initiated by EUROCONTROL through the integrated Network Management programme (iNM) . The new system delivered by iNM, the enhanced EAD (eEAD), will operate in AIXM 5.1. ENAV, as the first B2B data provider using the SDD Service, contributed significantly to the improvement of the process, paving the road for the subsequent transitions of other EAD B2B data providers to AIXM 5.1.

“ENAV is very pleased to be the first Air Navigation Service Provider exchanging aeronautical information with EAD in AIXM 5.1 thus contributing to the EU Regulation compliance and the optimisation of the Network operations. The transition to the EAD SDD is part of the digitization process designed by ENAV's strategies to support a sustainable development of the sector. This achievement was only possible thanks to an excellent cooperation and commitment of the teams involved on both sides.”

- Maurizio Paggetti, ENAV COO

“We congratulate ENAV on becoming the first Air Navigation Service Provider to use AIXM 5.1 to exchange aeronautical information with EAD. The transition to AIXM 5.1 is a major step in our ongoing digital transformation journey and will contribute in a major way to improving the EAD, the world’s largest AIS system which is currently used by more than 200 users world-wide.”

- Iacopo Prissinotti, Director Network Management, EUROCONTROL