Welcome to IFP Design
An independent team with decades of combined experience and expertise. Specialists in the design, implementation, safeguarding and maintenance of Instrument Flight Procedures
About IFP Design
IFP Design Ltd is a UK CAA Approved and Australian CASA Approved Procedure Design Organisation that specialises in Performance-based Navigation (PBN) and Conventional Instrument Flight Procedure design, safeguarding, review, maintenance and validation.
Our team brings an advanced skillset and many years of practical experience in the design, improvement and modernisation of terminal airspace and aircraft arrival and departure procedures. We have worked within some of the world’s busiest terminal airspace and most complex route networks and pride ourselves in offering innovative, effective and tailored solutions.
Our Services
Our comprehensive services help you navigate the complexity of airspace and ATM projects with confidence.
Our team brings an advanced skillset and many years of practical experience in the improvement and modernisation of terminal airspace and aircraft arrival and departure procedures. We have worked within some of the world’s busiest terminal airspace and most complex route networks.
Our airspace and IFP expertise includes the introduction and optimisation of Performance Based Navigation (PBN) procedures for safety, capacity, flight efficiency and environmental benefits including methods of mitigating the negative effects of noise concentration.
All published IFP’s are required to be reviewed as a minimum, every five years.
5-year maintenance reviews involve assessment of published IFPs against
- The effects of magnetic variation
- The latest PANS-OPS criteria detailed in ICAO DOC 8168
- Changes to airspace structures and/or the local obstacle environment.
IFP surfaces are extremely complex and can extend for many miles from the airport and well beyond the Obstacle Limitation Surfaces (OLS) surfaces.
We provide a bespoke IFP safeguarding service tailored to your aerodrome through the provision of:
- Individual IFP assessments of proposed developments or temporary obstacles or framework agreements to cater for a year-round IFP safeguarding service
- Provision of Coloured Square Maps in accordance with CAP 738
- Provision of software to enable aerodrome operators to understand if proposed obstacles/applications could affect their IFPs
- Annual assessments of aerodrome surveys against the IFPs.
Ground / flight validation of new or revised instrument flight procedures ensure the procedures are operationally acceptable for safety, flyability and design accuracy.
Ground / flight validation of new or revised instrument flight procedures services include:
- Development of an IFP validation plan;
- Arranging FMS build(s) for formal ARINC424 coding of procedures;
- Scheduling of flight or ground validation activity on multiple aircraft types;
- Attendance of flight validation activity and recording of evidence;
- Creation of IFP validation reports.
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