Aviation Intelligence Reporter – March 2013
All Roads Led to Madrid
Rid Us of Radar
A Drone by Any Other Name…
ATM Competition – The European Unit Rate Is Short Changing Us All
IATA and its Emissions: Plan S for Scramble
The Shifting Landscape of Business Jet Financing
PRB at the Gate: Quick, Change Everything to Change Nothing
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click hereAll Roads Led to Madrid
Not since the late 1600s have so many people considered Madrid the centre of the known world. It was as if Cortez, Balboa and Columbus had been brought back to life to lead the way from the other reaches of the Spanish Empire into Madrid, the new home of ATM conferencing. After two years of discussion, a year of plotting and a year of planning, the World ATM Congress got under way in Madrid in mid-February. If you were in any way interested in ATM, Madrid was The Place To Be Seen.
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Rid Us of Radar
In organising the conference part of the World ATM Congress in Madrid, CANSO set itself one target. ‘Give us a series of challenges’ CANSO said, ‘and hold us accountable to them.’ Tony Tyler took CANSO at its word, sort of. He sort of set a challenge, but ironically it was made flesh by the chairman of CANSO, Paul Riemens. Sadly that is where it is likely to end. CANSO looks unlikely to take up the challenge. Hard to be held accountable for a gantlet you do not acknowledge, let alone pick up.
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A Drone by Any Other Name…
Nothing focuses a man’s attention so much, said Dr Johnson, as the knowledge he will be hanged in the morning. Nothing, it seems, so focuses EU attention as the knowledge that the US has taken still another technology lead without over-worrying about any of those pesky regulations.
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ATM Competition – The European Unit Rate Is Short Changing Us All
One of the unique features of European ATM is the Unit Charge concept. It was devised at a time when air travel was far more restricted than today, dominated by national airlines, with airspace controlled by governmental departments. Recognising that there would be variability in the costs of the control provision, but not wanting to harm financially the fledgling airlines or State budgets, the unit charging system is based on the principle that measured over a short time scale ANSPs should neither over- nor under-charge their customers. Or, to put that another way, the income from charges should match the outgoings.
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IATA and its Emissions: Plan S for Scramble
For several years IATA has been spiking the guns of anyone that actually tried to suggest a reasonable way to include aviation in the world’s various emissions trading schemes, or carbon taxing schemes, or indeed to do anything at all positive for the environment. The trees cut down to defend that position are measured by the forest.
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The Shifting Landscape of Business Jet Financing
Madrid was not the only place for the aviation world to be in February. London hosted the Corporate Jet Investor Conference. The number of leading operators, suppliers and financiers attending continues to swell annually, even as the business jet industry suffers brutal turbulence. Partly, the organisers have done a good job in setting out a decent networking event. Mostly, the attendees need group therapy.
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PRB at the Gate: Quick, Change Everything to Change Nothing
The Performance Review Body is the Garibaldi army of ATM: unifying, modernising and revolutionising ATM as it goes. But they are fighting wily foes. In Lampedusa’s The Leopard, Count Tancredi, faced with Garibaldi’s men arriving on Sicily, knew what to do. ‘For everything to stay the same, everything must change’ he says. The entrenched forces of European ATM must use the novel as a mandatory training text.