The 'Festa V' approach. As a general approach, the FESTA handbook11 on the implementation of Field Opera- tional Tests distinguishes the various steps that typically have to be considered when conducting such a study. This approach has got known as the 'Festa V' (Figure 6.
1). This approach is to a large extent also applicable to an ND study, and the planned up- date of the FESTA handbook will make this explicit.
Figure 6.1 Festa V: the stepwise approach of a Field Operational Test with the arrows indicating the time line (Source: Festa Handbook 2008)
