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ATM Insight offers readers a fresh look at ways to improve ATM performance around the world. In these pages we explore the possible impact of new technological, political and operational initiatives and suggest new perspectives for consideration.
Taking AIM on data integrity Edition 4
Information generation and processing is one of the most overlooked aspects of air navigation service provision. It is in the same category as the plumbing – only noticed when not working...
Re-thinking sovereignty… Edition 10
For a very long time now, sovereignty has been the killer argument against any proposal for change in the ANSP industry...
…and competition at the base of the tower Edition 10
Competition is a vexing concept for ANSPs and for ATM services. The traditional response to calls for competition in ANSP services is to laugh. The louder the better...
Tragedy, humanity and air traffic management Edition 13
The recent tragedies in Spain and Kyrgyzstan have again seen calls for the CEO’s resignation. Those calls must be ringing some bells for skyguide’s General Counsel...
New tunes for the regulatory dance Edition 15
One of the beauties of ICAO is that sense of déjà vu as one arrives at the mighty, early Stalinist-style portals. Once inside you go even further back in time. After a day of meetings in ICAO you can almost yearn...
Single European Sky – States slow progress to airline savings… Edition 17
The initial European response to the economic crisis has been completely State driven. Each national capital has been out there, announcing measures to save their banks and national jobs...
CANSO: US air traffic control system a 1954 Cadillac: the fin edge of the wedge? Edition 19
The Secretary General of CANSO Alexander ter Kuile stood up at the Air Traffic Control Association (ACTA) conference in early November and delivered a strong message.
CANSO one step forward, one step back Edition 21
It is probably fair to say that if one were to put the world’s air navigation service providers’ safety directors in a room you would have a significant percentage of the world’s expertise on the subject in one place.
The Interconnectedness of Things Edition 22
Physicists forever strive to find the grand interconnected theory of just about everything, as a sort of Holy Grail. They have been smashing electrons together...
Aviation, climate change and the Copenhagen Meeting on Climate Change Edition 24
The European Commission has released a communication setting out its position ahead of the Copenhagen conference to negotiate a successor to the Kyoto protocol.
ANSPs: At the crossroads – where to from here? Edition 27
Everyone hates a monopoly, except of course, those that have one. So when faced with the opportunity to break up a monopoly, most regulators are only to keen to be seen to do so.
Who will own and manage the Single European Sky? Edition 30
The European Commission recently issued a green paper seeking views on whether European funds, set aside for European transport networks (TEN-T)...
Aviation trade association slogans a long way from reality Edition 31
June is annual general meeting month for air transport – and IATA set the ball rolling in Kuala Lumpur with a scream of pain that must have been heard in Singapore.
The CANSO AGM – Once more unto the beach, dear friends Edition 32
The great and the good of the ANSP world gathered in San Diego for CANSO’s AGM in late June. Social events included a beach party at an artificial beach area, complete with a huge pool with a wave machine.
Black day for the black list Edition 33
Safety is always an issue for air transport. As it should be. Airlines, ANSPs, regulators all have departments devoted to ensuring safe operations.
Statistics, damn statistics and the PRC Report Edition 37
In his poem-play The Rock, TS Eliot has the chorus, at a critical moment, lament: Where is the wisdom we lost with knowledge? Where is the knowledge we lost with information?
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