Jan/Feb 2003

News

 

Brennan’s big adventure
The Irish Aviation Authority’s Eamonn Brennan takes over his new role with a positive outlook for the future, but with the acknowledgement that there’s a lot of work to be done in the next 18 months. Suzanne Christiansen reports.

 

SurTech checks out
ADS-B and other innovations of surveillance were high on the agenda at Helios Information Technology’s SurTech 2002 in Amsterdam last November.

 

ATC costs set to rise
Airlines are not pleased by European air traffic control route charge increases, Airfinance Journal’s Steve Garton says.

 

Tracking the surface
Surveillance is now on the airport surface as London’s Heathrow airport goes live with transponder multilateration.

 

Socrates is listening
What is the sound of a wake vortex forming? Lockheed Martin and Flight Safety Technologies are finding out.

 

Tired of Arguing for Capital Budget?
Here is an innovative financing structure that allowed two leading players make their budgets stretch further

 

Organising air traffic control
By Dirk Schmalenbach, Engagement Manager, Transport & Logistik, Schlumberger Sema GmbH

 

Surveillance Supervision
Traditional control and monitoring system supervision is not adequate to meet the requirements of the constantly increasing complexity of the highly integrated surveillance processing chains. Contents-based supervision of surveillance data streams forms the basis of a new quality management.