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FAA awards ADS-B and NextGen contract (Winter 2007)
Philip Moorcroft reports on the exciting news that the US plan to move ahead with ADS-B is now in the implementation phase

 

And the winners are ... (Autumn 2007)
Air Traffic Management's first international poll of the great and the good of the business highlighted both the quality of many of the firms doing business today — and also the great variety of companies that service the industry.

 

Life after radar (Summer 2007)
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.

 

Official: Single European Sky off course (Spring 2007)
Three years after the SES initiative became European law, the latest progress report indicates that little has been achieved. An Air Traffic Management exclusive by Mike Halls.

 

The Eurocontrol perspective (Winter 2006)
Eurocontrol is the key player in monitoring the move to create functional airspace blocks (FABs) in parallel with the technical rationalization of European air traffic management envisaged by SESAR and legislative plans set out by the European Commission. Air Traffic Management spoke to Víctor Aguado, director general of Eurocontrol.

 

ATM'S FINEST - The great and the good of air traffic management (Autumn 2006)
Choosing some of the finest men and women working in the air navigation business was always going to be difficult. But here is a selection that Air Traffic Management reckons as being worth considering.

 

The 'Datalink implementing rule': CPDLC becomes mandatory (Summer 2006)

 

Datalink at a crossroads (Summer 2006)
With the regulations that will govern the Single European Sky steadily taking shape, datalink on the continent is approaching a crossroads in its development. A long saga of incompatible dual standards is finally getting resolved.

 

Turning theory into reality: ADS-B in Australia (Spring 2006)
Continent wide air traffic control surveillance will become a reality when Airservices Australia a network of ADS-B ground stations commissioned to be installed this year and next become operational.

 

Europe's next big thing (Spring 2006)
Recent FAA announcements that it plans to integrate ADS-B across the US into its air traffic management system look promising, but Eurocontrol's CASCADE programme appears to be well ahead of the game, reports Michael Halls.

 

US to rule on ADS-B roll out (Spring 2006)
The US Federal Aviation Administration looks set to announce its plans for a nationwide launch of ADS-B in the summer. So far all the signs coming out of its Washington headquarters are positive. But given the FAA's equivocations in the past, how much of a foregone conclusion is this?

 

The Nats sell-off: a public-private partnership (Winter 2005)

 

Getting to grips with Nats (Winter 2005)
In the past five years Nats has moved from being owned by the UK government to a private company. So how is it structured? How did the privatization process work? And how does its finances operate? Mike Halls reports.

 

Nats — one year on (Winter 2005)
Paul Barron took over at National Air Traffic Services in June 2004. Just over a year later, things seem very different. He tells Mike Halls about the changes he has introduced, not least the spirit of commercialism he has infused in the organization.

 

A brief history of nats (Winter 2005)

 

Nats — some of the numbers (Winter 2005)

 

Canso — communication and consolidation (Autumn 2005)

 

NATS, on the ascendant (Autumn 2005)

 

Airways New Zealand: the Kiwi high flier (Autumn 2005)

 

DFS: braced for sell-off (Autumn 2005)

 

Cape Verde: distance no object (Autumn 2005)

 

France: first paces to a corporatized approach (Autumn 2005)
It's a bit of a mouthful. "A linear organization connected through the professions it covers no longer a vertical one divided by sector — seemed to us to be better able to meet the needs of operators, while still capable of compliance with European and international regulations." But this is the key phrase, courtesy of Michel Wachenheim, France's director general of civil aviation, in spelling out the massive changes to the way. The country has reorganized the DGAC, its civil aviation authority, and specifically its air traffic control system in what it calls "the most profound restructuring for the last 30 years". From March 1 a new entity DSNA became responsible for France's air control network.

 

Terma: technology pushes further (Autumn 2005)

 

Ones to watch in 2006 (Autumn 2005)

 

Airservices Australia: the Eagle has landed (twice) (Autumn 2005)

 

FAA: an organization in search of an identity (Autumn 2005)
The US' Federal Aviation Administration will look back on 2005 as a bruising year but also a critical one for its future. 2006 looks set to be more of the same. And how it reacts to the challenges ahead will be key to the future of how America flies till the start of the next decade.

 

NAV Portugal: exploiting its potential (Autumn 2005)

 

Ireland's IAA: The sky's the limit (Autumn 2005)

 

NAV Canada: 10 years on (Autumn 2005)
NAV Canada was chosen as one of the key air traffic management players in 2006 and one of the ones to watch next year because of the way it has positioned itself at the cutting edge of the industry from the point of view of service, fees and general business dynamism. This status is widely acknowledged. Just five months ago a report by the US' General Audit Office held the private sector organization up as a possible successful business model to be adapted for its own Federal Aviation Administration. NavCanada celebrates its 10th year as a private organization next year. Air Traffic Management interviewed John Crichton, president and chief executive officer at NAV Canada.

 

Galileo heads for the stars (Autumn 2005)
"Baikonur we have lift off" does not have the same ring as Apollo 13's message to Houston, but the launch of the first test satellite of the European Union's Galileo programme in December may be an equally historic moment.

 

FAA special report: Is privatization the answer? (Summer 2005)

 

FAA special report: The voice of reason? (Summer 2005)
Bob Poole, joint-author of the latest report on the FAA from the Reason public policy institute called Resolving the Crisis in Air Traffic Control Funding discusses some of his thinking.

 

FAA Special report: Nightmare on Capitol Hill (Summer 2005)
The US Federal Aviation Authority is at a critical moment in its history. But although the will to change is there, Congress looks set to stop a radical overhaul. Mike Halls reports

 

FAA special report: Natca study criticizes US government funding for FAA (Summer 2005)

 

Come rain or shine (Winter 2004)
Advances in weather forecasts can help airlines choose optimum routes for their aircraft, saving on fuel burn and avoid delays. But do air traffic providers need five-day forecasts and what will be the cost?

 

Waking the dragon (Autumn 2004)
Is China ready to meet the fourfold rise in air traffic expected over the next ten years?

 

Blue skies in Cape Verde (Summer 2004)
Cape Verde's new air traffic control system is the most modern in the world. But why does it need such a sophisticated system?

 

New Zealand's other winning team (Spring 2004)
A record year for Airways New Zealand demonstrates that air traffic providers can make money. CEO, Ashley Smout shares his views on the air traffic management industry and explains why Airways has been so successful.

 

Tougher than the rest (Jul/Aug 2003)
Sweden?s new air traffic management system has faced more than its fair share of challenges during development ? but now it?s on the verge of going live

 

Laying the pathway (May/Jun 2003)
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.

 

Eastern Europe bucks trend (Mar/Apr 2003)

 

Brennan’s big adventure (Jan/Feb 2003)
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 (Jan/Feb 2003)
ADS-B and other innovations of surveillance were high on the agenda at Helios Information Technology’s SurTech 2002 in Amsterdam last November.

 

European air traffic alliance on tap (Jul/Aug 2002)
Air traffic provided the news at this year’s Farnborough air show.

 

CANSO rings the changes (May/Jun 2002)
The CANSO meeting in Spier, South Africa showed that the organisation is growing up. Suzanne Christiansen reports.

 

Maastricht 2002 (Mar/Apr 2002)
Air traffic may be down but air traffic suppliers and service providers were upbeat at ATC Maastricht, held 5-7 February in the Netherlands. Suzanne Christiansen reports.

 

Working around convective weather (Jan/Feb 2002)
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

 

No sole means (Nov/Dec 2001)
Talk of sole-means communications, navigation or surveillance may be silenced once and for all with the release of the Volpe GPS vulnerability assessment. Carroll McCormick reports.

 

Fielding STARS (Sep/Oct 2001)
The Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System program is sufficiently advanced to begin national deployment throughout the United States. Carroll McCormick reports.

 

CANSO looks to the future (Jul/Aug 2001)
The Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation spent some time gazing at the future of the ATM industry at its annual general meeting in Palma de Mallorca in May.

 

Financing a dream (May/Jun 2001)
Air Traffic Management’s and Euromoney Seminars’ “Financing Air Traffic Management Systems” Conference in Paris, France March 29 & 30 yielded consensus, controversy and further questions on the issue of corporatisation of air navigation service providers. Suzanne Christiansen reports.

 

Now in the Future (Mar/Apr 2001)
The emergence of 3D tower training simulators in the 1990s provided a revolutionary finishing school for controllers. Now they are becoming a "must-have" tool for airport designers. Carroll McCormick investigates.

 

Safety first in Europe (Jan/Feb 2001)
An interview with Víctor Aguado, Director General of Eurocontrol by Suzanne Christiansen

 

Laser-safe skies (Nov/Dec 2000)
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.

 

Making room with RVSM (Sep/Oct 2000)
Revised vertical separation minima, already utilised in the NAT airspace and the Pacific, is coming to Europe. Will it all be ready on time? Suzanne Christiansen reports.

 

CPDLC under scrutiny (Jul/Aug 2000)
The next step in data link, CPDLC, was examined in the bright light of the Roman sun as Italy played host to Air Traffic Management’s CPDLC Symposium.

 

The straight goods (May/Jun 2000)
Borne of a controller strategy for resolving aircraft conflicts, the Direct-To tool automatically searches for aircraft eligible for shorter trajectories to downstream fixes. Carroll McCormick reports.

 

Curing LAHSO fever (Jan/Feb 2000)
US aviation groups have recently assessed land-and-hold-short operations, to address the concerns of, and reassure, sceptical airlines and pilots. David Morrow asks if they have succeeded.