Issue 2 2008
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NEWS
4 FAA/Natca employment debate rumbles on
6 Wrenelle Stander steps down at ATNS
14 SR A snaps up multilat pioneer ERA
15 Ireland and UK sign first FAB
36 Oceanic fuel savings through ADS -B
38 ETS I announces VoIP tests positive
COVER STORY
24 Skyguide: solving the puzzle
New CEO of Switzerland’s ANSP Daniel Weder is reinvigorating an organization that just two years ago appeared to be in trouble
29 Under a European heaven
Francis Schubert explains the brave thinking behind Skyguide’s approach to the Single European Sky features
18 Time to hike controllers’ pay?
Performance tables only give a clue to ATCO performance but isn’t it about time the worldwide shortage of controllers should mean higher pay and fees?
20 English spoken here?
Not apparently in a lot of airspace near to you. ICAO’s failure to implement compulsory attainment of Level 4 English is worrying — and dangerous
22 High fliers descend on Amsterdam
The The annual ATC Maastricht conference and exhibition shifted location this year to Amsterdam and changed its name to ATC Global. It was certainly more convenient to get there — but was it better?
33 8.33 kHz below FL 195
Peter Alty, Eurocontrol 8.33 kHz programme manager looks at why European ANSPs are promoting the channel spacing in airspace below flight level 1 95
34 Team Kiev 3, Team Prague 1
Not exactly a headline you’d normally read in this magazine but those were this year’s winners in the European Controllers Cup ...
39 Improving the links in the information chain
Air traffic managers need to start analyzing their own information supply chain — starting from before passengers even check in — to create better efficiencies of delivery
REGULARS
1 Editorial
4 People
15 Contract news
24 Technology news
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