When we say “airport” the picture that most easily comes into one’s mind is of aircraft moving around or waiting parked at the gate. A poor second is the masses of people milling around in the terminal, part of the organized chaos designed to ensure that in the end each and every one of them [&]

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Not long ago we were in the middle of a brainstorming session at the HQ of a partner company and in the middle of our discussions suddenly a picture popped into my mind. It was so outlandish that at first I tried to push it away and focus on the issues at hand. But the [&]

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There is a wide choice of conferences in the aviation field to chose from if you have the time (and budget) to attend some of them. They all provide excellent networking opportunities and of course the content is also of interest. However, if I had to chose just one conference, the winner would be, by [&]

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The Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration today proposed a framework of regulations that would allow routine use of certain small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in today’s aviation system, while maintaining flexibility to accommodate future technological innovations. The FAA proposal offers safety rules for small UAS (under 55 pounds) conducting non-recreational operations. The rule would [&]

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Hungary’s decision to get rid of all fixed routes in the Budapest FIR and so become the first place in Europe with true free-route operations signifies something that few people appreciate for the huge impact it will have once others also follow suit. The ability to fly any track in the en-route phase that is [&]

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HungaroControl is first in Europe to introduce the most effective version of Free Route operations. HUFRA can save airlines 3 million dollars in fuel costs per year. Since 5 February 2015, HungaroControl is the first ANSP in Europe to have abolished the entire fixed route network in the Budapest FIR, thus enabling aircraft to use [&]

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When the concept of Collaborative Decision Making was first defined in the United States and subsequently brought over to Europe, it was hailed as one of the cheapest effective ways of improving air traffic management efficiency. We have always stressed that CDM was not a system but a way of working… As years passed, this [&]

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The results of the most recent technological developments are being tested in simulations and actual flights in the framework of the Budapest 2.0 project, organised by a large international collaboration. The programme, scheduled to last for two years, will demonstrate the arrival and departure procedures of the Budapest terminal approach airspace, the remote tower control [&]

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In HungaroControl’s CRDS (Centre of Research, Development and Simulation), the various procedures of implementing the CPDLC technology in the Romanian and Bulgarian airspace were put to the test. In the course of the nearly two-week long series of simulations, the effect of the new data link system on air traffic controllers’ workload and on capacity [&]

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THE NORTH POLE – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) safety inspectors, who are working closely with elves on-site, cleared the Santa One sleigh and Candy Cane One to deliver toys to boys and girls throughout the world who’ve been good for goodness sake. “Because so many boys and girls were nice [&]

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In 1944, delegates from 54 nations gathered in the Grand Ballroom of the Stevens Hotel in Chicago at the invitation of the United States of America. At this event, the participants concluded and signed the Convention on International Civil Aviation, also known more popularly as the ‘Chicago Convention’, the defining international agreement which has since [&]

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United Airlines has announced that the carrier will equip its flight attendants with Apples iPhone 6 Plus, putting important safety and service information at flight attendants fingertips while enhancing their ability to meet customers needs. The airline will begin distribution to its more than 23,000 mainline flight attendants during the second quarter of 2015. Upon [&]

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In the second half of October 2014 we have been writing history. Controllers from the Aerodrome Control Tower and the Approach Control Unit participated together shift by shift in a half-day training session on incident investigation. Possibly this is business as usual in other countries, but in Budapest it took 30 years to become reality. [&]

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On 17 November 2014, Stuttgart Airport became the 13th airport to receive Eurocontrol certification for A-CDM and is now operating as a fully compliant A-CDM Airport. The ATRiCS Pre-Departure Sequencer (PDS) a core logic module of the A-CDM system has been in service at Stuttgart Airport since 22 July 2014. It is a critical module [&]

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Just in time for the busy holiday travel season, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today announced that the Washington, D.C. Metroplex is the first in the nation to have three, state-of-the-art, satellite-based highways in the sky running side by side by side, each dedicated to one of the three major airports in the region. “The national capital region is reaping the benefits of NextGen and [&]

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Although BluSky has moved from Air France  KLM to Lufthansa and the Star Alliance as our companys preferred airline, we are still registered as a BlueBiz member and so get every now and then communications from our old favorite.  Last Wednesday I got a particularly interesting letter from them in my mailbox. I would [&]

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By Lawrence Goldstone Publisher: Ballantine Books ISBN: 978-0-345-53803-1 Also available as Kindle eBook. I guess if I asked who the fathers of real powered flight have been, you would answer Orville and Wilbur Wright. OK, some of you may have different ideas, including certain gentlemen from Russia and other places but at the end of [&]

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HungaroControl launched its large-scale CPDLC (Controller Pilot Data Link Communications) project with the aim of developing the Hungarian air traffic infrastructure with the most modern technology in accordance with European integration requirements (Single European Sky, SES). In addition to verbal communication, pilots and controllers will be able to communicate using data link services, by exchanging [&]

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We have said a few times on this blog that European air traffic management was in fact existing on borrowed time… Things were not collapsing (yet) not because the new organizations, like the FABs or EUROCONTROL’s new function of Network Manager were doing such an excellent job. No sir, things were running more or less [&]

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