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Airservices Australia board chair Sir Angus Houston has told a Senate committee that the air navigation service provider is "99 per cent ready to go" to sign contracts for the new OneSky air traffic management system. Since February 2015 Airservices has been negotiating with Thales as its preferred … [Read more...]
An Australian project to develop a space-based augmentation system (SBAS) that promises navigational accuracy to less than 10 centimetres is "well underway", according to Lockheed Martin, one of three industry participants in a two-year Australian Government-led trial. "We are undertaking a two-year … [Read more...]
Pilots will be able to view live conditions at six more locations around the country after Airservices expanded its weather camera portal that was initially launched in May 2017. Airservices says the six new sites that have come online are Albany, Coffs Harbour, Esperance, Kalgoorlie, Mount Gambier and … [Read more...]
Sir Angus Houston will remain as chair of the Airservices board until at least June 2018 after the federal government extended his term by one year. The former Chief of Defence Force and Chief of Air Force was appointed to the Airservices board in December 2011 and was made chairman in June the following … [Read more...]
Airservices says the recently activated Ground Based Augmentation System (GBAS) at Melbourne Airport will reduce flight disruptions and improve airport capacity. Melbourne Airport has become the second airport in Australia – and indeed in the southern hemisphere – to feature GBAS, a satellite-based … [Read more...]