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Tuesday 21 May 2013
NATS UK has selected Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems to supply an area coverage system for air traffic control radio communications in the East Shetland Basin. The system requirements were met using an IP network that interlinks Park Air T6 radio installations on three production facilities with the NATS Aberdeen control centre that will deliver air traffic control voice services to helicopter flights in the region. The system allows both voice and remote control data...
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Tuesday 21 May 2013
The US Air Force has selected Raytheon to build rapidly deployable air traffic control (ATC) systems that can be delivered anywhere in the world and then be fully operational controlling flights within six hours. The contract, with a potential full value of USD260 million, calls for one Engineering and Manufacturing Development unit plus production options for up to 18 Deployable Radar Approach Control (D-RAPCON) systems. The Air Force has authorised Raytheon USD50.6 million for the...
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Tuesday 21 May 2013
US business intelligence company PASSUR took the opportunity of the AAAE Annual Conference and Exposition in Reno in May 2013 to launch its new collaborative decision making (CDM) platform. The single common operating platform is designed to address expensive problems that can only be solved through collaboration ? like diversions, tarmac delays, and weather or congestion related disruptions. The platform incorporates PASSUR Field Condition Reporting (FCR), Airport Information Network (AIN), and the newest addition, IATA...
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Tuesday 21 May 2013
Airways New Zealand reports improved refresher training through the use of the organisation's air traffic control simulator. The simulator allows controllers' ratings to be refreshed in an environment exactly replicating their airfield tower, with seasonal variations such as fog ensuring controller's training is up to the minute. To meet the CAA license requirements for Low Visibility Operations, ATCs are required to undergo refresher training prior to the fog season. At Airways, ATCs update their controller...
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Tuesday 21 May 2013
Nav Canada has signed an agreement with Jeppesen, a part of Boeing Digital Aviation, for the design of RNAV RNP (area navigation with required navigation performance) instrument flight procedures that are based in Performance Based Navigation (PBN) principles. The new procedures will provide the benefits of PBN - increased runway throughput, as well as reductions in aircraft fuel burn and greenhouse gas emissions - for Canadian airspace. RNAV differs from traditional navigation, whereby aircraft navigate...
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Wednesday 08 May 2013
The Vietnam Air Traffic Management Corporation (VATM) has selected Selex ES to develop the New Hanoi Air Traffic Control Centre. The contract, which will last 19 months, includes the supply of an Area ControlCentre system (ACC) equipped with operator consoles, a simulator and a test and evaluation system. It will also include the complete automation of two control towers, one at Noi Bai (Hanoi International Airport) and one at Cat Bi. The area control centre...
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Wednesday 08 May 2013
Adacel announced reports delivery and installation of a suite of Air Traffic Control (ATC) training simulators purchased by Southern Illinois University Carbondale. The simulators installed at the University's brand new Transportation Education Center, opened in October 2012, include Adacel's high-fidelity MaxSim Tower and several MaxSim Radar suites. The simulators are designed to provide ATC students with realistic hands-on practice that reinforces learning from the basics of phraseology and communications through the advanced skills required to...
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Wednesday 08 May 2013
Airways New Zealand and GE Aviation have redesigned the Queenstown airspace to more than double hourly airport capacity. The cornerstone of the project is the new Required Navigation Performance (RNP) flight paths that enable concurrent arrivals and departures at the airport. The accuracy of the RNP paths allows air traffic control to confidently manage up to 12 aircraft per hour, compared to five with previous procedures. Controllers can now monitor arrivals and departures as opposed...
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Wednesday 08 May 2013
Indonesia has installed a new air-to-ground data link service supplied by SITA. Airline crews and controllers in the Jakarta Flight Information Region (FIR) will soon use the new technology, which replaces voice services, to exchange air traffic control-related messages, including en route services such as Automatic Dependent Surveillance (ADS) and Controller-Pilot Data Link Communications (CPDLC) services. Controllers are currently undergoing internal operational procedures preparation and ATC operational training. An ADS/CPDLC operational trial will be the...
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Wednesday 08 May 2013
At the beginning of April, the German air navigation service provider, DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung, started operation of its Precision Approach Monitor (PAM) for approach control at Frankfurt Airport. For this purpose, DFS integrated a Wide Area Multilateration (WAM) system from the firm Thales into its air navigation services environment. This is the first operational WAM system in Germany and was specially developed for use in congested airspace. It is one of a kind worldwide with...
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Wednesday 08 May 2013
The most recent CNS/ATM training graduates from Airways have come from Northwest Regional Air Traffic Management Bureau in China - one of eight Chinese groups that have received tuition through Airways Training in the past year. A group of 12 leaders and senior staff members from NWATMB travelled to Christchurch to attend a three-week training programme on Air Traffic Control Threat & Error Management, and taking advantage of Airways' world class training facilities in Christchurch.
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Tuesday 23 April 2013
Airbus, with the support of EADS Innovation Works, opened the first "stealthy building" at the Toulouse Airbus site attached to Blagnac Airport in March 2013. EADS and Airbus built the C65 hangar at the airport by equipping the building with specially shaped aluminium panels. These panels prevent the building from disrupting the airport's Instrument Landing System (ILS), which allows aircraft to land in reduced visibility conditions. For safety reasons, planning permission would not have been...
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Tuesday 23 April 2013
Lockheed Martin UK has been awarded a supplier performance award from NATS UK for the sixth consecutive year. Achieving the NATS Supplier Performance Award underpins the long-term relationship between Lockheed Martin and NATS that spans more than 25 years of Lockheed Martin supporting the UK's air traffic management systems. Lockheed Martin's work with NATS embraces a wide range of services including systems architecture, systems engineering, software development, systems integration and lab support.
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Tuesday 23 April 2013
Airports Authority of India (AAI) and MITRE Corporation signed two agreements in April 2013 to provide for establishing a Technological Center with a host of Laboratory capabilities for CNS/ATM research and development in India. AAI, right from 2006, has been partnering with MITRE for many its CNS/ATM activities including Performance Based Navigation (PBN) implementation since 2006. The two agreements have been signed within the framework of the existing MOU, one for 'MITRE's System Engineering support...
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Tuesday 23 April 2013
Intelcan has teamed with Rohde & Schwarz to supply Rohde & Schwarz's ECS300 ILS/VOR Anaylser as part of Intelcan's SKYNAV product family. EVS300 is a portable level and modulation analyser designed for start up, checking, and maintaining ILS, VOR and marker beacon systems. Features include integrated rechargeable battery, mains-independent measurement in the field, internal calibration generator and high contrast display that is readable in direct sunlight.
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Tuesday 23 April 2013
ENAV has opened an office in Kuala Lumpur called ENAV Asia Pacific. ENAV has been present in Malaysia since October 2012, when the Italian service provider was selected to provide consulting services to improve Communication, Navigation, Surveillance and Air Traffic Management in Kuala Lumpur airport and surrounding airspace. For the next four years ENAV Asia Pacific shall assist the Malaysian service provider in managing a large programme for the modernisation and technological implementation of new...
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Tuesday 23 April 2013
The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) approved Required Navigation Performance (RNP) to Instrument Landing System (ILS) and public Required Navigation Performance Authorization Required (RNP AR) procedures at Zhangjiajie Airport in April 2013. China Southern Airlines successfully validated the procedures with an Airbus A320. The implementation was the result of collaboration between Zhangjiajie Airport Authority, China Southern Airlines, the regional Air Traffic Management Bureau (ATMB), Quovadis, Airbus and CAAC. Located in southern China, Zhangjiajie Airport...
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Tuesday 23 April 2013
Airservices Australia has commissioned the Saab Sensis Advanced - Surface Movement Guidance and Control System (A-SMGCS) at Brisbane Airport for operational use. The A-SMGCS provides air traffic controllers the location and identification of all aircraft on the airport's runways and taxiways for improved safety and efficiency at Australia's third busiest airport. The Saab Sensis A-SMGCS fuses surveillance data from Saab Sensis multilateration sensors, Surface Movement Radar (SMR) and VeeLo NextGen? vehicle locators for the location...
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Tuesday 23 April 2013
SELEX Systems Integration GmbH, together with its Brazilian partner Engelétrica Sul, has been awarded a contract worth about Eur27 million to supply nine METEOR 1600S weather radar systems to the Brazilian Centre for Monitoring and Warnings of Natural Disasters (CEMADEN), part of Brazil's Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation. The METEOR 1600S is a high-powered S-Band weather radar system designed to be employed in severe weather regions, where attenuation by intervening heavy rainfall impedes the...
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Tuesday 09 April 2013
The Wide Area Multilateration (WAM) system by ERA at Ostrava Mosnov Airport has reached its 10th anniversary. It has functioned non-stop without any critical errors occurring for 87,600 hours. The WAM system deployed around Ostrava airport in 2003 was the first WAM in the world to be operationally certified and fully integrated into the Air Traffic Control (ATC) structure. Along with the WAMs in Prague and Brno (2006 and 2009 respectively) the three systems provide...
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