Category: Air Traffic Management

A minor fire in the air traffic control centre caused brief delays at Melbourne’s Tullamarine Airport on Monday morning. Airservices Australia said the small fire in a computer room at its Melbourne Conrol Centre forced a partial evacuation of ATC staff. The air traffic control tower was not affected and airborne aircraft were controlled and

Visual Vectoring, an Australian company specialising in training concepts for air traffic control (ATC) operations has successfully exported a computer-based ATC training package to China. Qingdao ATC Station in Shandong province is using the VV Approach training program for new controllers and to upgrade the skills of current radar approach controllers to manage rapidly growing

Airservices graduated 39 trainee air traffic controllers in January.  Having achieved their diploma of aviation (air traffic control) at Airservices’ Learning Academy in Melbourne, the recruits have now been posted to towers and control centres across the country. Airservices executive general manager air traffic control Jason Harfield said this lastest group of controllers would play

Airservices is reminding business jet operators and airlines to fit Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) systems ahead of the CASA-mandated deadline of December 12 2013. The mandate requires domestic and international operators of aircraft that fly above 29,000ft to have ADS-B fitted when flying within the Australian flight information region. This content is available exclusively to