May/Jun 2003

Danes plan HITT guidance for capital

 

AMS takes China deal

 

Military awards Raytheon transportable radar option

 

Raytheon lands upgrade deal for MSAS

 

US approves flagship oceanic control system

 

Frequentis team to upgrade FAA Command Centre

 

Schmid gains China VCS deal

 

Conflict probe starts rollout

 

Indra to modernize Cochabamba ATC

 

Seychelles to have Park Air ILS

 

Austria selects Thales for airport upgrade

 

Mathieu moves on from Thales ATM

 

Slovaks pick Thales for Bratislava upgrade

 

Arinc implements VDL test station for Eurocontrol

 

Cambodia & China to have Raytheon radar

 

Kiel to take Thales terminal system

 

Laying the pathway
ICAO’s Eleventh Air Navigation Conference has been the most important ATM event of the year – a chance for a worldwide audience of delegates to discuss the key strategies behind progess towards shaping and harmonizing the global ATM environment.

 

Strongest link
This year’s Eleventh ICAO Air Navigation Conference heard evidence about the competing types of datalink for automatic dependent surveillance – broadcast

 

Time and money
Concerns over cost and deployment schedules for datalink dominated the ATN 2003 Conference in London. David Bentley reports.

 

NATS ready to build
British air traffic control organization National Air Traffic Services is restarting its long-delayed programme to construct a major area control centre in Scotland to complement the Swanwick en route centre in the south of England.

 

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

 

Asia moving forward

 

Open to abuse?
As work on Europe’s Galileo satellite constellation moves ahead, and the FAA commits to a space-based ATM system, the heightened concern over terrorism has focused attention again on the vulnerability of navigation-by-satellite to natural, and unnatural, circumstances.

 

London’s microwave experiment
With demand high and runway space at a premium, London Heathrow has turned to microwave landing systems to squeeze out valuable capacity during poor weather conditions

 

Operation Freedom
The FAA has unveiled a strategic plan to replace the United States’ current conventional routing structure with a performance-based navigation concept which will lead to more flexible routings and greater efficiency for airlines.

 

From ATC to NPV
Under ICAO principles the building of equity reserves by para-statal and privatised air traffic control operators is spawning a new interest in QTE lease benefits as they try to finance tehnological upgrades in a highly regulated market. By Michael Marray.