Aviation Intelligence Reporter – May 2016
The €245 billion Question. But What Is The Answer?
Drones and Those That Just Drone On About Drones
IATA Appoints a New Du G-uniac
London’s New Runway
Making the Net Work to Optimise the Network
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click hereThe €245 billion Question. But What Is The Answer?
It’s been billed as the €245 billion question: what is the reward for finally delivering on the long-running, almost stalled project to bring European airspace into the 21st century? The answer comes courtesy of a study by SEO Amsterdam Economics, commissioned by IATA. The study looks at the benefits to consumers of modernising European airspace, taking into account the gains from shorter routes, fewer delays, lower emissions, increased connectivity and increased capacity.
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Drones and Those That Just Drone On About Drones
You would have thought from the news coverage that the sky fell in at Heathrow mid-April, when a BA pilot reported being hit by a drone. Strictly the quick are required to give way to the slow, so the aircraft hit the drone. That point, along with most common sense, was quickly lost. Almost as lost as the fact that the CAA has still not ruled out that the culprit might have been a stray plastic bag, not a drone. Certainly the damage to the airframe is consistent with the plastic bag theory.
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IATA Appoints a New Du G-uniac
The current DG of IATA, Tony Tyler, is only the sixth DG IATA has had in its 71 years. He is also the first one in the history of the organisation that will leave of his own accord and at his own timing. There will be no need to prise his fingers off the key to the executive bathroom; not the case with his predecessors. There has been much speculation and rumour for some time on the potential candidates to replace him. Given their rarity, the announcement of a new DG for IATA is therefore a red letter day.
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London’s New Runway
Stop the presses! We finally have a winner. After years of debate and campaigning, years of claim and counter-claiming, finger pointing and hand wringing, there has just been an announcement resolving the London runway debate. It is a very ingenious solution, given the hotness of this particular potato. Let any person that wants to claim that there is no such thing as airport-on-airport competition try to argue their way out of this one.
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Making the Net Work to Optimise the Network
Jacques Mason – Independent Aviation Consultant
At the 2016 Integrated Communications Navigation and Surveillance Conference held in Washington DC, in late April, Steve Bradford, the FAA’s Chief NextGen Scientist, talked about how, in the near future, newish technologies such as the iPad and System Wide Information Management (SWIM) can lead to less reliance on ANSPs for all things related to flight operations. Both he and Philippe Merlo, Director ATM for Eurocontrol, stressed ‘that the concept of operations for SWIM will be essential in providing more opportunities for airspace users (known as ‘customers’ in most other industries) to influence decision making for airspace operations.’
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