Summer 2007

Life after radar
Multilateration is no longer an emerging technology nor a half-way house to ADS-B but the next step beyond secondary surveillance radar. More to the point it spells the beginning of the end for SSR — and the enormous costs associated with radar.

 

News in brief

 

Looking for life beyond SSR

 

FAA recruitment plan fuels anger over staff levels with Natca union

 

People in brief

 

Weder new Skyguide chair, Schubert deputy

 

FAA picks Filippatos for key international slot

 

IATA Eagle for Chile, Vancouver

 

Farewell Maastricht, hello Amsterdam
One of the highlights of the air traffic control year has always been the annual ATC Maastricht exhibition. Air Traffic Management looks at the history of the event and its future.

 

Multilateration: the challenges ahead
Air Traffic Management assembled three acknowledged experts from the biggest firms in WAM (wide area multilateration) to discuss how the technology will roll out in the future. Our panel consists of Dan Ford from Era, Tim Quilter from Roke Manor and Marc Viggiano at Sensis.

 

ANSP customer relations: a shotgun marriage
The idea of a customer airline is a relatively new one in ANSP thinking. But Ashley Smout argues we should go further. The real way of looking at this relationship is one of a marriage — for better, for worse, and till death do us part.

 

Breathtakingly close to European implementation
SITA's Akhil Sharma reports on the steps Europe is undertaking towards adopting European Community law that will mandate the implementation of ATN/CPDLC across Europe starting 2011. He highlights the key issues that must be resolved to pave the way for timely implementation.

 

From air traffic management to air traffic enabling
Greg Atkins, Airways New Zealand's service improvement manager talks about a new customer-controlled flow tool that is heralding what the ANSP is calling a paradigm shift to customer control — collaborative decision making.

 

Stepping down
Keith Williams, chairman of Eurocontrol's Performance Review Commission and 39-year veteran with NATS, the UK air navigation service provider, is retiring in July. The well known, well liked and well respected Williams talks about how the industry has changed since his early days as a controller in the 1960s.

 

And how was it for you?