Weekly review #25 - 15th of November 2019

The ATC community again got news from the court room this week. This time for good. One of the cases of a Swiss ATCO being subject to legal action after self-reporting a mistake has been finally closed by the Federal Court. In its ruling, the Court declared the ATCO innocent of public traffic impairment. Self-reporting and learning from mistakes is an important part of safety and a fostering a just culture is a key to self reporting. Other cases are still pending but it seems that the legal system in Switzerland is going in the right direction. Read more in the press release from skyguide.

ANSP news

• LFV competes the building of the largest remote tower center - The new facility of the Swedish ANSP will soon be home of the world's largest remote towers operation center
• UFA provides a ground vehicle driving simulator to ANA Luxemburg - The ATVehicle module can simulate 16 different types of ground vehicles and will be used by the ANSP to train drivers
• IAA monthly review - The Irish ANSP monthly report shows traffic increase, except for Shannon airport

Context information

• Analysis of IT risks across the aviation industry - Airport Technology published a 360° analysis of IT risks posing a threat to the aviation industry, from luggages and passengers handling to ATC
• ACI, IATA and WWACG new partnership on airport slots agreement - Airport slots are the basis for airline scheduling and the new partnership will bring improvements in this area.

Drones corner

• Heliguy installs a drone defence system at Gatwick - This is Gatwick Airport in the wake of the disruptions caused by drones last year
• Rohde&Schwarz will demonstrate counter drone capabilities in Australia - The demonstrations will done for various airports and authorities in Australia and New Zealand

Innovation

• ACI Director General on autonomous vehicles - This blog from Angela Gittens addresses the risks and benefits of autonomous vehicles at airports
• The ops group want to revolutionise NOTAMs - The NOTAMs suffer from obsolescence and the so-called Ops Group lead by Mark Zee wants to start a revolution. This pamphlet is highlighting the issues in a quite humorous way
• Second approach to the same runway increase capacity and reduces emissions - EUROCONTROL and Lufthansa Flight Training performed full flight simulator tests demonstrating the benefits of using highest, steepest approaches
• EUROCONTROL magazine focus on artificial intelligence - The winter issue of skyway contains a series of articles from the community around the topic of AI in ATM

Market news

• CanardDrones and AENA sign an agreement - The agreement includes inspection of navaids but also runway pavement condition and more

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