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Tuesday 21 May 2013
The US Congress passed the Reducing Flight Delays Act in early May 2013, a bill that gives the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) the authority to use surplus Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funds and other funds to end sequestration-related furloughs of its 47,000 employees. Furloughs in late April contributed to over 1,000 delays per day due to staffing reductions, according to the FAA. The Department of Transportation (DoT) determined that the new Reducing Flight Delays Act...
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Tuesday 21 May 2013
Systems Interface, together with local partner Queens Group, reports completion of a turnkey project to provide navigational instruments to the newly built Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport, Hambantota, in Sri Lanka. The airport in the south of Sri Lanka will serve at the countries second International Airport complying with ICAO standards, and officially opened in March 3013. The project consisted of the supply, installation and commissioning by Systems Interface of a Doppler VHF Omni-Directional Range (DVOR)...
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Tuesday 21 May 2013
The Air Traffic and Navigation Services (ATNS) Company of South Africa and the Swaziland Civil Aviation Authority (SWACAA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in May 2013. The MoU includes the following: that it remains the responsibilities of SWACAA to continue to provide the maintenance service of the ground equipment within the boundaries of Swaziland, which will support area control activities within the area of responsibility - delegated to ATNS. SWACAA will also ensure that...
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Tuesday 21 May 2013
A new control began operations at Edmonton International Airport, Canada, in May 2013. The 48-metre high tower forms part of the airport's Expansion 2012 project. Floor space in the cab is about 50 per cent bigger than the old facility, and equipment includes the latest NAVCANatm technology including NAVCANstrips electronic flight strips. EIA is the country's fifth busiest airport in passenger numbers with 6.7 million passengers in 2012, and eighth busiest in air traffic with...
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Tuesday 21 May 2013
The Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) says it has consistently outperformed the European average for air traffic management-attributable delays over the last four years, contributing just 0.001% of total European delays. From January to April 2013, all Irish air traffic control-attributable delays were due to weather conditions. This is significant against a background of increasing air traffic at Ireland's busiest airport, Dublin. IAA's attributes the fall in air traffic management-attributable delays to up-to-date technologies and the...
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Tuesday 21 May 2013
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Council has adopted Annex 19 Safety Management. ICAO Annexes contain globally accepted safety standards and recommended practices used by regulators and industry. Annex 19 requires member States to implement State Safety Programs (SSP) and require their respective aviation industries to implement Safety Management Systems (SMS). Some safety management requirements were incorporated into ICAO Annexes 1, 6, 8, 11, 13 and 14. However, those requirements did not address the integrated...
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Tuesday 21 May 2013
The first quarter of 2013 saw a further decline in traffic volume in the airspace of the FABEC partners ANA (Luxembourg), Belgocontrol (Belgium), DFS (Germany), DSNA (France), LVNL (Netherlands), MUAC (Eurocontrol) and skyguide (Switzerland). In the busiest airspace of Europe, a total of 1.149 million civil and military flights were conducted - a decline of approximately 63,000 flights over the same period of the previous year (2012: 1.212 million flights), a decline of 5.2 percent...
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Tuesday 21 May 2013
FABEC states report the operational setup of FABEC Interconnection of Existing IP Networks (FABIEN). Based on the FABIEN agreement, an IP network dedicated in a first step to the exchange of standardised end-to-end flight messages between the air traffic control centres of FABEC will take up full operations in the course of 2013. FABIEN allows the exchange of flight messages between FABEC air traffic control centres replacing legacy point to point networks. FABIEN interconnects nodes...
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Tuesday 21 May 2013
The FAA issued a supplemental type certificate for avionics onboard 20 US Airways Airbus A330 aircraft to use Automatic Dependent Surveillance - Broadcast (ADS-B) In. The FAA awarded ACSS USD6.3 million in January 2009 to equip the 20 aircraft with ADS-B In and ADS-B Out. ADS-B In, which the FAA does not currently mandate, provides pilots with a cockpit display showing the location of other aircraft. ADS-B Out, which will be required for all aircraft...
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Wednesday 08 May 2013
The UK CAA announced that it is to merge the activities of its Safety Regulation Group and Department of Airspace Policy, with effect from 1 July 2013. The new, merged department will be led by Mark Swan, currently the CAA's Director of Airspace Policy. The change follows Safety Director Gretchen Haskins' decision not to seek a reappointment to the CAA Board when her current fixed term expires. She will remain at the CAA supporting the...
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Wednesday 08 May 2013
Turkish DGCA and SESAR Joint Undertaking jointly organised the second SESAR workshop at Istanbul Technical University between March 20 and 21 2013. The workshop was a result of a mutual interest of having the Turkish stakeholders in aviation and ATM involved as partners in the SESAR work programme. The workshop was attended by some 100 participants from across the Turkish organisations, universities, aviation and the ATM industry. The workshop presented the current developments in SESAR...
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Wednesday 08 May 2013
Nagpur Enroute ATC Centre has obtained ISO 27001:2005 certificate in recognition of its conformance to information security management system with respect to operations and maintenance of the modernised Air Navigation Services facilities. The Nagpur Enroute ATC centre controls the central part of the country and is considered to be the most complex ACC in India as major north-south and east-west domestic/ international routes pass through it. As many as 18 Domestic Routes, 9 International Routes...
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Wednesday 08 May 2013
The International Federation of Air Traffic Controllers' Associations (IFATCA) held its 52nd Annual Conference in Bali, Indonesia, in April 2013. The theme 'Satisfied Controllers = Safe Sky' aimed at raising awareness for the professional and social status of the Indonesian air traffic controllers. Improving safety levels by focusing on human factors and working conditions was a prime discussion point of the more than 395 Air Traffic Controllers from 59 countries present. The conference agreed to...
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Wednesday 08 May 2013
IATA announced an organisational restructuring of its main divisions and regional operations to address the needs of its 240 member airlines from July 2013. Senior management changes were also announced to support the new structure. IATA's regional operations will be consolidated from seven regional structures into five. These will be based around the five hubs (Amman, Beijing, Madrid, Miami and Singapore) where IATA has already been amalgamating activities associated with its industry financial systems. Each...
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Wednesday 08 May 2013
The Sheikh Zayed Air Navigation Centre of the General Civil Aviation Authority formally launched phase two of the UAE Airspace Coordination and Contingency Cell (UACACC) at the end of April 2013. Phase 1 was launched in July 2012 through a daily teleconference attended by the GCAA Sheikh Zayed Air Navigation Centre (SZC), airspace users, airports, National Centre for Meteorology and Seismology (NCMS). This daily teleconference created a platform for the exchange of operational information which...
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Wednesday 08 May 2013
At the end of April 2013, all FABEC States Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Switzerland deposited their instruments of ratification to the FABEC Treaty with the Government of the Kingdom of Belgium. Belgium is due to notify the ratification on behalf of all FABEC States to the European Commission. Based on this milestone and the arrangements defined in the Treaty, FABEC will formally enter into force by 1st of June 2013. In the...
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Wednesday 08 May 2013
After three days of furloughs for air traffic controllers in response to government sequestration, the FAA returned to regular staffing levels in April and resumed normal operations on April 30, 2013. The FAA reported thousands of system delays as a result of staffing reductions, in addition to delays attributed to weather and other factors. The FAA cited staffing challenges at the New York and Los Angeles En Route Centers and at the Dallas-Ft. Worth and...
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Wednesday 08 May 2013
Eurocontrol says States could save up to EUR200 million each year by implementing a number of ATM support services at pan-European rather than national level. In line with discussions late last year with the European Commission, Eurocontrol has begun to look at the principle of such a move and will bring forward proposals very soon. ATM infrastructure projects in Europe already cost in the region of EUR1 billion each year, and inefficiencies caused by Europe's...
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Wednesday 08 May 2013
The DeSIRE project (Demonstration of Satellites enabling the Insertion of RPAS in Europe) has undertaken a series of test flights to demonstrate the role of satellite communications for integrating in civil and military airspace RPAS flight Beyond Line of Sight (BLOS). In the latest flight, an aircraft without a pilot on board took off from the San Javier Air Base on April 24, 2013 and completed a 6-hour flight in civil and military airspace in...
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Wednesday 08 May 2013
The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has published a proposal to the European Commission containing rules on qualifications for flying in Instrument Meteorological Conditions (IMC). With this so-called Opinion, the Agency puts forward new and more accessible instrument ratings (IR) focused on General Aviation pilots. The proposed changes are expected to increase safety with regard to the accident category of controlled flights into terrain (CFIT) by establishing a better accessible IR. This will enable more...
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