By Larry Greenly Publisher: NewSouth Books ISBN: 978-58838-280-1 A generation to whom an African-American US President is a normal thing may have some trouble imagining an age where a young guy with top-notch credentials and abilities had to go to France to realize his true potential, becoming a fighter pilot in World War I and [&]

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Almost forgotten in the mist of European air traffic management history is an organization called EUROCONTROL. It was invented to be the FAA of Europe& or something like that. It would have been the provider of ATM for the continent using an efficient, correctly sized infrastructure and number of ATC Units. Before it could become [&]

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Not so long ago I punched an address into the navigation software of my smartphone and after pondering the information for a few seconds, the well-known female voice announced: Caution, your destination is in a restricted area. Mind you, the address was in a quiet, relatively new area of Budapest so her knowledge of such [&]

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I must be out of my mind, no question about it. After just one week on my new job I had tears in my eyes when I was sitting once more in the tower, headset on my ears, I uttered the magic sentence: “Cleared to land, runway 31 right”. I also had this nice feeling… [&]

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3 February 2012 was a black day in the history of civil aviation in Hungary. Malev, the national airline of the country stopped operations that day after it was placed under bankruptcy protection the day before. The causes are many, both political and economic, and one unexpected result is that a lot of people in [&]

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When Unions and militant air traffic controllers air their ire over the aims of the Single European Sky (SES) or when they sit back contentedly to discuss just what a great job they are doing, they usually fail to take stock of the very real shortcomings that SES is aiming to address. The list is [&]

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I do not know whether somebody has written a book about the history of industrial action but no problem, we all know what this means. Workers unhappy with their pay, hours, perks or whatever “strike” their employer by laying down the hammer, wrench and so, refusing to work until the employer agrees to their demands [&]

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The abbreviation NOP went through a number of iterations over time, originally we used it to refer to the Network Operations Plan and it now stands for Network Operations Portal. It is a portal managed and run by EUROCONTROL and it provides a real-time picture of the air traffic flow and capacity management situation over [&]

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