Nov/Dec 2000
Eurocontrol opens up ENPRM rules for consultation
Working on runway wake vortices
Argentinian ACC system fully operational
TOP 20 AIRPORTS - by passengers
WORLD AIRPORT RANKINGS-passengers
WORLD AIRPORT RANKINGS - movements
Parliament defers NATS privatisation
Raytheon, Thales team up for defence
2 January 2001 -- Northrop Grumman & Litton Industries sign $5 bn deal
4 January 2001 - Finland joins Eurocontrol
5 January -- Victor Aguado new Director General at EUROCONTROL
10 January -- European Commission to join Eurocontrol as member
16 January -- ter Kuile succeeds McLauchlan as CANSO head
Laser-safe skies
Agencies such as the FAA, Transport Canada and ICAO
have drafted laser-use regulations to protect aviators
from eye damage. But global Standards and Recommended Practices are still years away. Carroll McCormick reports.
A night at the OPERA
Europe's Operational Programme for the Exchange of Weather Radar (OPERA) Information is up and running, with the Phase II of the project to start January 2001. What's the next act for this programme?
Weather tracking in Taiwan
Taiwan is implementing the Advanced Operational
Weather System (AOAWS) to keep tabs on aviation
weather conditions. Suzanne Christiansen reports.
Polar thaw
A feasibility study carried out by Nav Canada and
the Federal Aviation Authority of Russia concludes that polar routes are feasible and desirable. Carroll McCormick reports.
Full schedule
Traffic Management Advisor is shaving thousands of hours a year off arrical times at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. Now it is being deployed elsewhere. Carroll McCormick reports.
Measure twice, design once
Getting the most out of air traffic control improvements starts with proper measurement guidelines. By V. David Hopkin, human factors consultant
Excerpted from a presentation given at the IIR Conference, Performance Measurement in Air Traffic Control,October 3-4, 2000.
Annual index
A listing of articles in Air Traffic Management for 2000
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