Jan/Feb 2002

Corporate developments

 

Feasibly Baltic
The Baltic States – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – are working on the “Baltics CNS/ATM Transition Project Feasibility Study,” Suzanne Christiansen reports.

 

Australia to trial ADS-B, implement RVSM over land

 

Fatigue report
As part of the June, 1999 contract settlement between NAV Canada and CATCA, these two groups and Transport Canada appointed representatives to form the Tripartite Working Group (TWG) to study fatigue and the provision of air traffic control services. The 44-page Report to the Tripartite Steering Committee was released in September 2001.

 

19 February 2002 - £60 million bailout for NATS

 

26 March - Lockheed to bid for FAA en-route contract

 

Swanwick on-line
Despite several years’ delay and millions of British pounds in cost overruns, the Swanwick, Hampshire NERC is now on-line.

 

Working around convective weather
Reducing delays due to thunderstorms has become a major objective of the FAA due to the recent growth in convective delays. A paradigm shift may be required in the methods by which aircraft routings are determined when there is convective weather in congested airpsace. By Dr. James E. Evans, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory

 

Common ARTS continues to support TRACON operations
Common ARTS will provide full traffic and weather information to Terminal Radar Approach Control Facilities (TRACON) controllers until at least 2008, the year the Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System (STARS) is scheduled for full deployment.

 

Student in the tower
The ATC training team at the Nav Canada Training Institute reveals to Carroll McCormick the latest thinking on what makes the tower simulator such a good training tool.

 

Going public with RNP
There are hundreds of Required Navigation Performance specials in the United States, but the FAA and industry are working together to develop criteria for public RNP procedures. Carroll McCormick reports.

 

Galileo a go?
The whole Galileo programme might be in jeopardy. Cracks are beginning to show in the apparent unity of the various participants in the project, Bob Greene reports.

 

Company Statement – CAMOS: Centralised ARTAS Maintenance and Operational Support
Since September 2001 a newly installed service for European administrations is available. COMSOFT from Germany was selected by EUROCONTROL as industry partner to support the states with their existing and forthcoming ARTAS installations.

 

Under surveillance

 

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