Category: Air Traffic Management

Airservices Australia says that safety in the skies over Tasmania has increased with the commissioning of Australia’s first Wide Area Multilateration (WAM) radar system, which provides enhanced en route surveillance of air traffic across Tasmania at Launceston Airport and down to the surface at Hobart for the first time. The $6 million system uses 14

Parliament has passed legislation which will increase the excise on aviation fuel which will increase funding to CASA. The rise in excise to 3.556 cents per litre will provide an additional $89.9 million annually to CASA. The government says that this will allow it to employ an additional 97 safety specialists, safety analysts and airworthiness

Airservices Australia CEO Greg Russell has told a Senate committee hearing that more than half of the 24,000 noise complaints received by the ATC provider came from only 20 individuals. Russell noted that two-thirds of complaints received in Perth were from the same two people, while one-third of complaints in Sydney came from one person.

Boeing has been awarded a research and development contract of up to US$1.7bn (A$2bn) from the US Federal Aviation Administration as part of the FAA’s Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen). Under the contract, Boeing will provide air traffic management modeling and simulation as well as the full integration of ground and airborne technologies and