Category: Air Traffic Management

Technology provider Frequentis will demonstrate its digital air traffic control tower to New Zealand’s air traffic manager Airways New Zealand. The demonstration would “assess how the technology could improve visualisation during persistent weather issues, extend the hours of air services at regional locations and in turn improve the effectiveness of airport operations as well as

Cattle farmers in Queensland are among the first industry participants in the federal government’s trial of a Satellite-Based Augmentation System (SBAS) for the Australasian region. In January, the Commonwealth announced a two-year project to trial a Satellite Based Augmentation System (SBAS), which uses space-based and ground-based aids to support the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS).

Airservices says the backlog of flights into and out of Sydney Airport should be cleared by early afternoon after resolving what the air traffic manager described as a software issue that left scores of passengers delayed on Monday morning. Airlines were forced to delay or cancel a number of flights after the fault was discovered

Pilots will be able to view live conditions at 17 locations around the country thanks to Airservices’ most recent expansion of its weather camera portal. Airservices said on Monday five new sites have joined the existing network of locations, namely Melbourne Avalon, Cairns, Gold Coast (Coolangatta), Mackay and Toowoomba. This content is available exclusively to