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Saab Providing Digital Air Traffic Services for Scandinavian Mountains Airport in Sälen
The first new airport in Sweden in 20 years will be inaugurated today, Scandinavian Mountains Airport in Sälen. Saab is providing the on-site camera tower in Sälen and digital air traffic control services from Saab’s remote tower centre in Sundsvall. Scandinavian Mountains Airport has entrusted Saab Digital Air Traffic Solutions (SDATS) to both install the system and remotely manage air traffic control from Sundsvall. “One of the advantages of remote air traffic control is operational flexibility, which makes it easier for us to manage varying volumes of traffic over …
New partnership formed to drive modernisation & digitalisation of European Air Traffic Management
Members of the SESAR Deployment Alliance - Airspace Users, Airports, Air Navigation Service Providers- and the EUROCONTROL Network Manager have today submitted a joint letter to the European Commission proposing to form a new partnership to manage the modernisation & digitalisation of a sustainable European Air Traffic Management (ATM) system. “I am delighted to have signed a letter to DG MOVE proposing this new partnership between EUROCONTROL and the members of the SESAR Deployment Alliance.
Plan to digitalise Europe’s aviation infrastructure adopted
The Administrative Board of the SESAR Joint Undertaking today formally approved the 2020 edition of the European ATM Master Plan, signalling strong consensus across Europe’s aviation sector to move ahead swiftly with the digital transformation of Europe’s aviation infrastructure, making air transport smarter, more sustainable and accessible to all. This move towards a “digital European sky” by 2040 relies on bringing forward technologies that can increase the levels of automation, cyber-secure data sharing and connectivity in ATM.
FABEC Training Seminar: Digital steps to secure the future
Digital generation trainees shared the platform with senior instructors and managers of training institutions to discuss changes in the ATC training environment at the fifth FABEC Training Seminar held at the DFS Academy in Langen, Germany, on 29-30 October 2019. The agenda focused on the growth in digital techniques and opportunities for tailored and focused skills training, for example using web-based simulation. Attendees also learned how gamification enhances the learning experience and recruitment strategies need to keep pace with digital media and cyber.
EASA Annual Safety Conference warns against complacency over aviation safety
The aviation industry must guard against becoming complacent about safety at a time when the number of fatal accidents in commercial aviation has been decreasing over the last decade, industry experts speaking at the European Union Aviation Safety Agency’s annual safety conference in Helsinki warned. While safety is widely established as the top priority for the aviation industry, commercial pressures can present a challenge to that focus. Compromises on safety however run the risk of losing the confidence of the general public, said Pekka Henttu, Director General of Civil Aviation at …
GCAA signs MoU with NG Aviation for Aeronautical Information Management (AIM)
Building on the innovative approach to the future of the Aviation Industry in the United Arab Emirates, the General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) have signed on 27th August 2019, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the NG Aviation SE to further validate its future strategy towards Aeronautical Information Management (AIM). The MoU seeks to establish practical cooperation on use cases to strengthen the aeronautical data digitization processes with the emphasis on the digital datasets in accordance with the new ICAO Annex 15 Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs) and to strengthen …
- Brazil implements South America’s first remote air traffic control tower with FREQUENTIS
- FABEC Training Seminar: ATM Training for the digital generation
- inter airport Europe 2019: The world’s leading airport exhibition presents digitalisation seminar for the first time
- Jersey Airport becomes the first British airport to manage air traffic using digital Remote Tower technology
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