Business & GAWhat's Trending in Aerospace - September 13, 2020 Check out the Sep. 13 edition of What's Trending in Aerospace, where editors and contributors for Avionics International bring you some of the latest headlines happening across the global aerospace industry. Commercial…
ATM ModernizationATC Charge Delay Provides Some Relief as European Airlines Navigate COVID-19 Crisis Eurocontrol is extending the latest deadlines for air traffic services charges incurred by airlines between February and May of 2020 into 2021, as carriers in the region have enacted temporary layoffs and…
ATM ModernizationSpace-based ADS-B is Coming to Eurocontrol’s Tactical Flow Management System Under a new 10-year agreement, Eurocontrol will integrate Aireon’s space-based automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) data into its enhanced tactical flow management (EFTMS) and a new system known as iNM that is currently…
ATM ModernizationEurocontrol to Keep CPDLC ‘Black List’ Avionics Policy in Place Long-Term Eurocontrol recently changed the way operators apply for classification of their aircraft to the operations ready list for the use of controller to pilot data link communications (CPDLC) in certain areas of…
ATM ModernizationEurocontrol and iTEC Pursuing European Interoperability Eurocontrol and iTEC have agreed to develop interoperability constituents to in pursuit of SESAR's goals for a free and open sky across Europe. The founding members of the iTEC collaboration, which includes…
ATM ModernizationSESAR Launches ATM Knowledge Transfer Network SESAR's knowledge transfer network, dubbed "Engage," is now up and running, the group said. The network plans to coordinate and facilitate the transfer of research and research results over the next four…
ATM ModernizationSESAR Exploring Augmented-Reality Tech to Aid ATM RETINA: Resilient Synthetic Vision for Advanced Control Tower Air Navigation Service Provision. The letters don't quite line up, but that is what Single European Sky ATM Research is calling its latest research…
Embedded AvionicsPerformance-Based Navigation as a Redundancy for GPS What do you do if you're in the air and your GPS goes out? Eurocontrol, with the help of the European Organization for Civil Aviation Equipment (EUROCAE), is working on a…
ATM ModernizationWhat Will Airplane Data Comms Look Like in the Future? Data communications has been introduced domestically in both the U.S. and European Union (EU). Due to differing requirements and operational needs and the availability of different data communications technologies with existing fleets…
ATM ModernizationEurocontrol Handles Another Record Amount of Air Traffic Eurocontrol said it handled a record number of flights during 2016. Nominated to be Network Manager by the European Commission, Eurocontrol said it handled 10.6 million flights in 2017. That represented an…