NAV CANADA has deployed Sensis Corporation Wide Area Multilateration (WAM) for surveillance of helicopter and aircraft traffic in the sea-to-sky corridor between Vancouver and Pemberton Regional Airport, British Columbia. The WAM system will also provide low-level surveillance of helicopters serving the area in and around Whistler, a major event site for the 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympics Games.
IFATCA questions the Royal Decree issued by the Spanish Government and believes that this will not make up for the past deficiencies of AENA.
This new partnership with Aviation Renewables will enable Systems Interface to provide new and innovative green technologies to the aviation industry through a global partner network delivering a broad array of complementary solutions to the aviation market.
The ATC Network and The Airport Show, Dubai organised by Reed Exhibitions have agreed on a partnership to help promote the event and further promote the ATC Network in the Middle East.
The new ATC automation system for the flight school and aviation training centre STPI of Indonesia has passed site acceptance tests in Tangerang.
EADS Defence & Security (DS) has developed a new device for automatic aircraft identification, which significantly enhances the tracking of aircraft, particularly helicopters, in airspace and thereby considerably improving air traffic safety.
PPLANE, a consortium of 13 international partners, including NLR, today announced its launch of the Personal Air Transport System, a new paradigm in air transport.
SITA has completed a vital upgrade to Brazils air-ground data link communications system as the country embarks on a major air traffic management modernization programme in advance of hosting both the Olympic Games and the FIFA World Cup in coming years.
Air traffic management continues to support the operational needs across Europe whilst maintaining safety levels according to a new report issued today by the EUROCONTROL Safety Regulation Commission (SRC).
Today, regulation and flight planning activities do not take environmental aspects into account at CFMU level, and particularly emission issues. At a European scale, the Central Flow Management Unit (CFMU) is the organisation in charge of providing Air Traffic Flow and Capacity Management (ATFCM) services to airspace users.
VITROCISET has agreed with the ENAV the contract for the provision of new AMHS for the management of the exchange of ATS messages.
The Netherlands Antilles Air Traffic Control N.V. (NAATC) has once again contracted Ubitech to supply a key piece of ATS equipment underlying the level of comfort and trust between the two parties. Ubitech will install its Ubimex ATS Message Handling System [AMHS/AFTN] in the Radar Building/ACC to enhance the critical ground-to-ground data communications between the island and other states.
CANSO, the Global Voice of ATM, today announced its Middle East Declaration, a statement committing the members of its Middle East Office and other aviation stakeholders in the region to work together to improve Air Traffic Management across the Middle East.
In the presence of Michelle Bachelet, the President of the Republic of Chile, the Chilean Civil Aviation Authority (Dirección General de Aeronáutica Civil DGAC) inaugurated Santiagos new Air Traffic Control (ATC) centre equipped by Thales.
At the request of the Haitian government, the Department of Transportations Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) dispatched a portable, temporary control tower to Haiti today to help assist with aircraft operations at Port-au-Prince International Airport. The tower is being transported aboard a large, chartered cargo aircraft and FAA technicians will install and prepare it for service which will take about 48 hours once it arrives in Port-au-Prince.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) hosted an historic aviation security summit with the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS). IATA Director General and CEO Giovanni Bisignani and DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano spearheaded a new era of industry/government cooperation to improve aviation security around the world.