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An initial cohort of six Airservices Australia trainees will be sent to Christchurch following 10 weeks of online training with Airways’ AKO virtual academy. This represents the beginning of a new contract between the two ATC organisations, with further cohorts expected to be sent in future.
The firm, which plans to launch hundreds of satellites starting in 2025 to provide space-based VHF communications and surveillance for air traffic management, has received money from investors including Foresight Australia, Canada’s OPTrust, and Australian deep tech fund Main Sequence.
Speaking to Murray Jones on 4CA Cairns on Tuesday, Minister King mentioned the industry’s ongoing skills shortage, saying airlines had let staff go and many people had not returned to aviation, and added that this was also a problem at Airservices.
However, Jason Harfield insisted “aviation safety performance has been maintained” and pledged to ensure “transparency and accountability for our ongoing performance”.
Air traffic control via satellites is a step closer after Skykraft conducted a “world-first” trial of the technology. The test used the same Very High Frequency (VHF) band traditionally employed by ATC, but that currently can only be accessed in the range of a ground-based radio.
Industry professionals have reached out to Australian Aviation anonymously in the wake of recent stories about the situation at Airservices, particularly after comments by the Australian Federation of Airline Pilots (AFAP) earlier this month.
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