Whilst the focus of capacity improvement at airports often centres on the runway, increasingly we are seeing airports where the ground movement control (GMC) function is also a contributory factor.
In the race to develop a vaccine, the UK was the first country to approve the COVID-19 vaccine, less than a year after the UK’s first reported case.
The first instance of virtualisation in Air Traffic Management were Remote Towers. The initial concept was simple: digitise the controller’ view, transmit it to a remote location and replicate it to allow tower controllers to perform their duties. This concept has grown and continues to grow.
Around about this time in a normal year (where normal is the old normal, not this new normal), we’d be packing up for World ATM Congress in Madrid.
Over the past few years Think have been involved in a range of R&D and deployment projects for approach concepts, and during that time I have developed my knowledge in this area. There are many different types and categories of approaches and the distinction between them can seem rather confusing!
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