Air Traffic Control News

Tests of the Uninterruptible Power Supply Successfully Completed

Skyguide has conducted extensive tests on two nights this month to verify the robustness and reliability of the power supply facilities at its Geneva operations centre. The last of these two tests was conducted in the night of 24 to 25 of January 2023 and proved an unqualified success. Ensuring the safety and reliability of civil and military flight operations at all times is a key component of Skyguide’s mission and mandate. To do so, Skyguide requires continuous round-the clock power supplies for all its safety-relevant systems – even in the event of an outage of the external …

ENAIRE and the General Staff of the Air and Space Force make progress in civil-military coordination

On Monday, January 23, the Air Force and Space Army Headquarters hosted a meeting between the Air Force and Space Army Chief of Staff, Air Force General Javier Salto Martínez-Avial, and the General Director of ENAIRE, Ángel Luis Arias, together with his management teams. The flexible use of airspace and the management of new scenarios of the massive use of drones and high-altitude and space operations are examples of collaboration. Civil-military coordination in the management and control of airspace and the provision of air navigation services are essential for the …

In Barcelona, ENAIRE, together with EUROCONTROL, analyses the improvements made to air traffic management

ENAIRE has held a Workshop on the management and control of the flow of air traffic at its Air Control Center in Barcelona with representatives of all the dependencies of the ENAIRE Control Centers and the Operations management team together with the operational managers the European Network Manager, EUROCONTROL, and the Maastricht Upper Airspace Control Center (MUAC). ENAIRE and EUROCONTROL meet at the Barcelona Air Control Center to analyze and share good practices The objective of flow management is to ensure a balance between the absorption capacity offered by the air traffic control …

IATA Welcomes Restoration of ‘Class A’ ATC Services Over Somalia, Surrounding Oceanic Airspace

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) welcomes the reclassification of airspace over Somalia and the surrounding region to Class A. This will take place at one minute past midnight on 26 January 2023 when air traffic control services will be operationally restored after a 30-year disruption. Some of the region’s busiest airways - linking the African subcontinent south of Ethiopia with the Middle East and Indian subcontinent as well as Western Europe with the Indian subcontinent and Indian Ocean islands - traverse Somalian airspace, which is officially known as the …

Indra concludes modernization of Brazilian Air Force air traffic radars that help control movements in the country's sky

Indra, a leading global technology engineering company for the aerospace, defence and mobility sectors, has successfully concluded the modernization project for two IRS 20-MP/S secondary transportable radars for the Brazilian Air Force, also supplied by the company, which help control movements in the country's airspace and have the capacity to replace air surveillance radars in the event of long interruptions in their operation and keep the overall availability of the surveillance service for General Air Traffic high.

UAV Airspace access a step closer to INMARSAT's latest tech signing

Innovation firm TTP to develop compact, lightweight and low-cost satcom terminal to integrate uncrewed aerial vehicles into commercial airspace, as part of Iris programme - Inmarsat and the European Space Agency (ESA) today announced the development of a compact satellite terminal for Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) as part of the ground-breaking Iris air traffic modernisation programme: paving the way for UAVs to be safely integrated into commercial airspace.

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