ATC Showcases

Setting standards of excellence for a greener future

Authors: Michelle Bishop CANSO Director Programmes Nick Boud Think ResearchPrincipal Consultant In June this year CANSO announced GreenATM, their new independent, industry endorsed environmental accreditation programme for ANSPs. Why is GreenATM needed and what benefits does it present for participants? These are a couple of questions this article will address, as well as providing an insight into some of the topics assessed within GreenATM.

R&S®SERIES5200 Air Traffic Control Radios

Future-proof, reliable, and easy-to-use technology The R&S®Series5200 air traffic control radios from Rohde & Schwarz blend the company’s robust design philosophy, exacting research and development and uncompromising production standards. The result is a radio that is highly reliable, simple to use and easy to upgrade. Rohde & Schwarz has been involved in air traffic control (ATC) communications for 60 years, starting in the late 1960s and continuing unabated to the present day.

How to make the best out of a crisis – ATM training at MUAC during the pandemic

In the first year of its operations in 1972, exactly 50 years ago, EUROCONTROL’s Maastricht Upper Area Control Centre (MUAC) already controlled nearly 200,000 flights in just the Belgian and Luxembourg upper airspace. These numbers have continued to grow over the past five decades together with the expansion of MUAC's area of responsibility, which now includes the Netherlands and north-west Germany as well. In pre-pandemic times, MUAC handled 1.9 million flights a year, with the highest controller productivity on the continent (2.

COVID-19 Update on effects on ATC training and recovery.

by Chris Wade, ATC Network. We published the first article on COVID effects on training, which you can find here COVID-19 Effects on ATC Training in October 2020 and the answers to the various questions were provided during the summer of that year. A time when the industry was experiencing a long drawn out downturn the like of which we hope never to experience again. Now 2 years later the industry is showing signs of an almost complete recovery to pre-pandemic levels.

Learning & Training

By Hendrik (Rik) Dermont, EUROCONTROL Aviation Learning Centre. A new start as the EUROCONTROL Aviation Learning Centre In early 2022, as part of the EUROCONTROL strategy to support European aviation, the EUROCONTROL Luxembourg based site rebranded as the EUROCONTROL Aviation Learning Centre (ALC). This rebranding is the result of the on-going modernisation of the EUROCONTROL Agency as well as the evolution of the training centre over the last two years.

Onwards and upwards with U-space research and innovation

By Florian Guillermet, SESAR JU. As the drone service market continues to grow and take shape in Europe, the pressure is on to deliver the services and technologies necessary for these air vehicles to operate safely and securely in the airspace, writes Florian Guillermet, Executive Director of the SESAR Joint Undertaking. Drones represent a rapidly growing sector of aviation in Europe and worldwide but these air vehicles are placing new demands on the airspace above us.