London City Airport now fully controlled by remote digital ATC tower
Following intensive testing and live trials, LCY has become the first major international airport in the world to be fully controlled by a remote digital tower.
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Following intensive testing and live trials, LCY has become the first major international airport in the world to be fully controlled by a remote digital tower.
For International Airport Review, Jesús Caballero Pinto, Director of Seville Airport, discusses the three elements that will underline the airport’s structure for recovery and echo the technological transformation of the aviation industry.
In this Guide To, we hear about the world’s largest remote towers programme; the progress that CANSO members have made on remote and digital towers in the last 10 years; and £34 million digital remote towers project - the largest project of its kind in the UK.
Digital remote towers help to leverage shared assets, improve efficiency, and enable new concepts of operations. Regina Bruzek, Frequentis’ Remote Tower Expert and Rainer Kaufhold, Research and Development Expert at DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung, talk to International Airport Review about the latest validation results, future scenarios and operational excellence.
Should EU States fail to support proposals to reboot the stalled initiative, IATA has outlined that the Single European Sky project will face collapse.
Sarah Vanessa Poralla, Aerodrome Expert at the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), and Dr.-Ing. Veit Voges, Senior Project Leader of Flight Ops Engineering at Zurich Airport, explore the threat posed by drones in the airport environment, and what can be done to prevent, mitigate and learn from them.
Sandy Legget, General Manager of Air Traffic Services - Edinburgh for Air Navigation Solutions Ltd. (ANSL), writes of the new challenges presented by COVID-19 and discusses ATTIS – the provider’s response to managing the pandemic across the organisation.
29 March 2021 | By NEXTT Vision (IATA & ACI)
As a joint initiative of ACI and IATA, NEXTT (New Experience Travel Technologies) creates a shared vision for the future of travel. In our previous webinars, we reconfirmed the validity of the concepts under NEXTT in a Covid and post-pandemic environment and learned from our industry experts how they turned the concepts into…
In the latest edition of Atkins’ Future of Flight magazine, read articles from experts on sustainable aviation, COVID-19 recovery, cyber risks and more.
Built with a 'privacy first' approach, the platform will enable the exchange of airport slot priorities in a fair and trustworthy way.
El Dorado International Airport in Colombia has partnered with DTN for the installation of a weather alerting system to ensure airport operations safety.
Gary Cutts, Challenge Director of the UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) Future Flight Challenge, spoke to International Airport Review’s Junior Editor, Leah Hockley, about the purpose of the challenge and how it is working to encourage innovation within the industry, as well as the importance of the development of future…
Within this section of the magazine, Peter F. Dumont from the Air Traffic Control Association, discusses the changes to the National Aerospace System in the American aviation sector, Franck Goldnadel from Aéroports de la Côte d’Azur, explains how its new Airport Operations Centre is helping them to optimise resources and…
EASA's new guidance addresses unauthorised drone usage in the vicinity of airports, including by accident, with deliberate intent to disrupt, and criminal or terrorist motivation.
The new runway safety training course has been designed specifically for air traffic controllers and aeronautical information service staff and will help to deliver substantial runway safety performance improvements.