Autumn 2006

ATM'S FINEST - The great and the good of air traffic management
Choosing some of the finest men and women working in the air navigation business was always going to be difficult. But here is a selection that Air Traffic Management reckons as being worth considering.

 

A time to be counted

 

Ex-Marconi chief is new Nats chairman

 

New business manager for Airways NZ International

 

Tribute: Donal Geaney 1951-2005

 

DFS trims management board

 

Canso view: Future funding of the FAA

 

Airservices Pacific new director appointed

 

FAA/Natca clash goes on and on ...

 

Bogosian to head FAA Office of International Aviation

 

ATC Maastricht event details come together

 

McCartney joins Real Time Engineering as consultant

 

Pitts new head of Northrop Grumman

 

New COO and CEO at Intelcan

 

Robey Lal new Iata India country head

 

People news in brief

 

Time to face the challenges ahead
The airline industry has changed enormously over the past decade — just think 9/11 or the massive swathes of business created by low cost carriers. The airport sector is leaner, faster, better. But air traffic management has been too sheltered for too long. Paul Barron, CEO of NATS throws open a challenge.

 

The mother of all privatizations
The privatization of NavCanada in 1996 showed that moving air traffic management out of the hands of the state and into the private sector was not just achievable — but better for all parties concerned. John Crichton, its president and CEO, looks back over the last 10 years and shows how it was done.

 

And then there was CANSO
It's not just Air Traffic Management that has an anniversary this year. So too does CANSO which has emerged as a powerful force in representing the needs of the air traffic management community.

 

Bridging the great oceanic divides
Over the last decade there's been a quiet revolution in the way we've managed oceanic airspace. But, as Airways New Zealand's Mark Goodall notes, things have improved enormously but all is not completely rosy.

 

Fakin' it to get it right — 15 years of ATC simulation
Air traffic control simulation has come an enormous way in the last 15 years as the benefits of the computer revolution drift down to the individual level. But it's not just the processing power, the technology has upgraded the screens too. Adacel's Tom Evers looks back on the changes.

 

Safety alert!
In a time of rapidly growing air traffic density, the interaction between man and technology grows increasingly complex. More and more information poses an increasing challenge to man, by making it more difficult to distinguish between important and unimportant information. This leads to a new requirement for information processing, the development of evaluation methods capable of weighing from situation to situation, whether a piece of information is of value or distracting.