THE FUTURE OF ATM – PART 2: THE VIRTUAL CENTRE

THE FUTURE OF ATM – PART 2: THE VIRTUAL CENTRE

In Part 2 of this blog series on the future of ATM, Maribel Tomás Rocha and Elizabet Pavlova explore the virtual centre concept and how location independent ATS could revolutionise the use of airspace. In today’s system, ANSPs are responsible for the provision of ATS...
THE FUTURE OF ATM – Part 1: The challenge

THE FUTURE OF ATM – Part 1: The challenge

Air Traffic Management needs to change. The current European ATM system is a patchwork of national infrastructures that is not able to efficiently absorb additional air traffic including new forms of aviation such as Urban Air Mobility and drones.  With the expected...
Think Supporting CANSO Smart Digital Tower Task Force

Think Supporting CANSO Smart Digital Tower Task Force

At the end of last year, Rory Hedman, one of our ATM and airport consultants, attended the CANSO Operations Standing Committee full working group meeting in Amsterdam to start his new role as Secretary of the CANSO Smart and Digital Towers (SDT) Task Force. The CANSO SDT Task Force aims to provide leadership in the area of Digital Towers for the benefit of CANSO members and global ATM. Below we provide a brief flavour of what the Task Force are working on and our own insight into why we feel there is a need for such materials to be produced.