Definition

SWIM consists of standards, infrastructure and governance enabling the management of ATM related information and its exchange between qualified parties via interoperable services.

Source: ICAO Doc 10039: Manual of SWIM Concept

Description

The present-day flight planning provisions suffer from some important limitations regarding flight information sharing, advanced notification, inconsistent flight information, information security and the flexible use of information.

A net-centric and secure environment, based on a globally consistent and unambiguous set of information elements, is needed to overcome the existing deficiencies and achieve a 4D trajectory-based globally interoperable ATM system.

4D trajectory based ATM systems have a number of data-related requirements. These include, but are not limited to: