ATC Showcases

Multiple Remote Tower - Is it becoming a reality soon?

By, Joern Jakobi, Business Manager, DLR and Michael Drews, Communications Manager, DLR. Do you know why planes are the safest means of transportation? One of the main reasons is air traffic services. Because they operate no matter how much traffic there is and always put safety first, these services can be costly to run. Particularly for airports where demand may be high on weekends and holidays, but low at other times of the week. Is there a way to offer the same or even higher level of service provision in a more cost-efficient way?

Simulator for Remote Tower Operations Training

by Kjell Arne Kamben, Edda Systems Avinor ANS, Norway, has opened the world’s largest Remote Towers Centre for live operations. To fulfil the corresponding training needs, in December 2021 Avinor ANS signed a contract with Edda Systems on delivery of a simulator for Remote Towers. Eight months later, in August 2022, the delivery was approved as successfully completed.Read the complete article here: ATC Network Special Bulletin - Remote & Digital Towers

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.