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Monday 24 January 2011
Every year the ATM industry describes itself as being at the crossroads. This year, they say, like someone addicted to change, this year will be different. And better. But somehow, one turning point after another never seems to live up to the advanced billing. So that makes 2011 interesting, because what will be interesting is what might not happen. What might not happen could include, the European ANSPs not formalising their FAB initiatives to...
Issue:  75
Monday 16 May 2011
ANSPs met with airspace users and operators in early September to find common ground on data link needs ahead of the ICAO Global Air Navigation Industry Symposium (GANIS) meeting in Montreal on 23 September 2011. Data link features in ICAO's Aviation System Block Upgrades programme and GANIS is an initial step in finding industry consensus in areas that effect for global ATM development. Data link offers more accurate, higher capacity air/ground communications and frees up...
Issue:  91
Monday 25 April 2011
As everyone started heading for the coast a European high level taskforce, made up of the head of the SESAR JU, Patrick Ky, the DG of Eurocontrol, David McMillan and the director general of DG MOVE, Matthius Reutte released a study on the deployment issues surrounding the avionics and equipment necessary to make all the SESAR work a reality. The study looks at two issues in particular - funding and deployment more generally. Deploying systems...
Issue:  88
Monday 11 April 2011
CANSO, the ANSP trade association, held its annual general meeting late June, in Bangkok. The meeting was something of a breakthrough. It focused on the industry and the future and the theme was Back to the Future - the Industry in 2020. One of the most important change of emphasis for CANSO in this agenda was an agreement that both NextGen in the USA and SESAR in Europe are not the solution to an industry...
Issue:  86
Monday 28 March 2011
Ireland's new ATM system, which began operations in Dublin and Shannon in May 2011, marks a change in procurement policy among European ANSPs. The upgrade is the first of three systems that Thales is supplying to Ireland, Sweden and Denmark under the COOPANS agreement. COOPANS was launched in 2006 when the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA), LFV, Naviair and Thales agreed to harmonise product development and specify a common Eurocat platform. In 2010, Austro Control and...
Issue:  84
Monday 21 March 2011
This is more than just a metaphysical question, or a sample of an air law exam paper. It matters and it should matter much more to the ANSPs than ANSPs have to date allowed themselves to admit. Sure, it is a hard question, one that would certainly sort the good students from the others if it was an air law exam question. A large number of learned papers could be written in answer to it...
Issue:  83
Monday 07 March 2011
We all rely on the internet and there is vital aviation infrastructure that is web-based, or can become so, with potential significant cost savings. But that is not of interest if we cannot be sure it is secure. Mike McConnell, once the director of national security in the White House, wrote an opinion piece in the Financial Times in late April on exactly this point. He argued that to ensure security, some vital infrastructure, including...
Issue:  81
Monday 14 February 2011
Events in Japan have pushed all other issues, apart from the military action in Libya, off the front of the newspapers. There are no words to express the shock and the suffering the people of Japan are going through. But there may be lessons from the disaster for us all. In particular the Fukushima nuclear power plant catastrophe is directly relevant to the air transport industry and we owe it to the Japanese and indeed...
Issue:  78
Saturday 01 January 2011
The snow storms at the start of Christmas in Europe and the start of the 'Holiday Season' in the United States brought airport regulation into the spotlight, in exactly the same way that the volcano had done so for the ANSPs in April. Some airports carried on as if nothing had happened. Some, quite literally, froze. But as any network economist can attest, once a node in a network freezes, the network has to work...
Issue:  72
Monday 23 April 2012
Ireland's new ATM system, which began operations in Dublin and Shannon in May 2011, marks a change in procurement policy among European ANSPs. The upgrade is the first of three systems that Thales is supplying to Ireland, Sweden and Denmark under the COOPANS agreement. COOPANS was launched in 2006 when the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA), LFV, Naviair and Thales agreed to harmonise product development and specify a common Eurocat platform. In 2010, Austro Control and...
Issue:  84
Monday 12 March 2012
Partners in the Atlantic Interoperability Initiative to Reduce Emissions (AIRE) used the ATC Global 2010 event in Amsterdam in March to release the results of demonstration flights conducted in the second half of 2009. Data from a total of 1,152 flights revealed savings of 400 tonnes of carbon dioxide as a result of efficiencies introduced during three phases of flight. 'The SESAR goal of 10 per cent savings per flight are still far away, but...
Issue:  53
Monday 23 January 2012
Most forecasters are predicting a gradual recovery for 2010 in passenger and traffic demand - but the recovery will be patchy and sluggish. According to IATA's end-of-year review of traffic and financial indicators: 'Following a decline of 4.1% in 2009, passenger traffic is expected to grow by 4.5% in 2010 (stronger than the previously forecast 3.2% in September). A total of 2.28 billion people are expected to fly in 2010, bringing total passenger numbers back...
Issue:  44
Monday 16 January 2012
Thales Air Systems Managing Director Daniel Kleim said at a press gathering in late November that company sales have remained strong throughout 2009. He predicts results roughly similar to 2008, excluding an exceptional LORADS III contract worth Eur145m placed by the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) in February 2008. Contracts secured in 2009 include the company's first NATO contract to supply primary and secondary radar for the Kandahar air base in Afghanistan, along with...
Issue:  43
Sunday 24 June 2012
A software suite developed by five German companies and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) demonstrated how it can optimize airport processes at a demonstration held at Stuttgart Airport on May 22, 2012. The result of several years' work, the Total Airport Management Suite (TAMS) showed how landside and airside operations can be monitored, visualized and managed in order to boost efficiency and cost-effectiveness. The suite integrated various airside and landside processes into one airport operations...
Issue:  107
Sunday 10 June 2012
ANSPs met with airspace users and operators in early September to find common ground on data link needs ahead of the ICAO Global Air Navigation Industry Symposium (GANIS) meeting in Montreal on 23 September 2011. Data link features in ICAO's Aviation System Block Upgrades programme and GANIS is an initial step in finding industry consensus in areas that effect for global ATM development. Data link offers more accurate, higher capacity air/ground communications and frees up...
Issue:  91
Monday 28 May 2012
As everyone started heading for the coast a European high level taskforce, made up of the head of the SESAR JU, Patrick Ky, the DG of Eurocontrol, David McMillan and the director general of DG MOVE, Matthius Reutte released a study on the deployment issues surrounding the avionics and equipment necessary to make all the SESAR work a reality. The study looks at two issues in particular - funding and deployment more generally. Deploying...
Issue:  88
Monday 16 April 2012
This is more than just a metaphysical question, or a sample of an air law exam paper. It matters and it should matter much more to the ANSPs than ANSPs have to date allowed themselves to admit. Sure, it is a hard question, one that would certainly sort the good students from the others if it was an air law exam question. A large number of learned papers could be written in answer to it...
Issue:  83
Monday 26 March 2012
We all rely on the internet and there is vital aviation infrastructure that is web-based, or can become so, with potential significant cost savings. But that is not of interest if we cannot be sure it is secure. Mike McConnell, once the director of national security in the White House, wrote an opinion piece in the Financial Times in late April on exactly this point. He argued that to ensure security, some vital infrastructure, including...
Issue:  81
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