e-letter for partners of era company 6 the officials of Vera-nG era has brand february turkish armed praised at DseI new websites - forces visited exhibition in read the news 2016 pardubice london on-line! page 3 page 7 page 9 the WAM system for the MinIster of Defence of tunIsIa, Airport In tokyo has visIteD the ERA been fully operatIonal heaDquarters era company announced that its Wam system deployed for tma of narita International airport in the Japanese capital of tokyo had achieved fully operational status. n official delegation of Tunisia visited Athe ERA headquarters in Pardubice at the end of December. Minister of National Defence of the Republic of Tunisia Farhat Horchani, General Zouhayer Jedidi, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Tunisian Air Force, and Colonel Mohamed Ben Salah, Division Director of the General Staff of the he installation of the system fulfils System (HMU) in Okayama and the MLAT sys- Tunisia Ground Forces, visited the Czech Tall the specific demands required by tem at Chūbu Centrair Airport in Nagoya. Republic to seek out possibilities for future the tendering process which ERA won in The customer Japan Civil Aviation Bureau cooperation with Czech Armed Forces cooperation with the Japanese company (JCAB) chose their solution of multilateration and exporters of defence and security Toshiba. systems in order to meet the challenge of the equipment. Besides the events organized Narita is the fourth ERA/Toshiba project in air traffic management in this busy airport, by the Czech Ministry of Defence in Prague, four years following the airport surface sys- one of two major hubs serving the Tokyo they flew to the Pardubice airport to pay a tem in Osaka Itami, the Height Monitoring area. > paGe 2 short visit to ERA Company. > paGe 4 ERA took part In NATO Days securIty shoW at ostraVa Airport RA company presented its VERA-NG allies in the field of security provision to the Epassive surveillance and reconnaissance general public. Participants from 16 countries system at the largest security show in Europe - exhibited their up-to-date technologies to the NATO Days & Czech Air Force Days at Leos 225 thousand visitors. Janacek Airport in Ostrava, Czech Republic. The main programme of the weekend The motto of the event was: “Our security is consisted of the presentation of heavy military not a given and there is no prosperity without hardware, police and rescue equipment, security”. dynamic displays of Special Forces’ training, The aim of the event was to consequent- flying displays and presentations of the ly present the wide spectrum of resources armaments, equipment and gear of individual and capabilities of the Czech Republic and its units. > paGe 4 1 ERA NEWS | FEBRUARY 2016 www.era.aero busIness busIness ERA Won the tenDer ERA obtaIneD a neW SQUID has been shortlIsteD for type of certIfIcate IHS Jane’s ATC AwarDs 2016 anD Delivers 125 SQUIDs for SQUID ominations for the IHS Jane’s ATC Awards for VehIcle trackInG to N2016 - in recognition of excellence in ATC and ATM industries - have been recently introduced to all CANSO members. ERA´s staVanGer Airport sola product, squitter beacon SQUID, passed successfully the first round and is on the avinor recently announced the selection ofc zech republic-based short list of serious candidates for the prize. company era to supply 125 vehicle-mounted squID transmitters The winners will be recognized within the celebration at World ATM Congress in Madrid, for surface vehicle tracking at stavanger airport sola in norway. in March. The awards recognise outstanding contributions in 2015 in all areas of the ATM industry, whether it’s national air navigation service providers, large-scale partnerships, new entrants to the sector or others. 2016 AwarD cateGorIes Environment: To recognise work on ‚green‘ air traffic management concepts Enabling Technology: For contribution to enhanced capacity and safety Service Provision: For contribution to safe and efficient airspace management The Ministry of Defence of the Czech Technology: Reflecting a significant Republic has certified that ERA‘s transmitter contribution by equipment suppliers SQB 02 (vehicle tracking unit - generally known Innovation: For small enterprises that have he evaluation has been based upon the mounted or portable squitter beacon tran- as SQUID), when maintained and operated in raised ATM performance “Tcontract award criteria identified in the smitters, SQUID minimizes the risk of safety accordance with pertinent regulations, has Runway: For safety and efficiency on the Invitation to Tender and the final decision is vehicle collisions, particularly during low visi- been approved for use in military aviation runway and final approach based upon a total evaluation of all criteria, bility conditions. The design of the equipment within the Technical Specifications accepted which identifies that ERA has delivered the ensures easy integration and interoperability by the Ministry. economically most advantageous solution,” with any other multilateration or ADS-B sys- ERA obtained the certificate after a one stated Tone Skau Monsen, Procurement Ex- tem based on ICAO Annex 10 defined Mode S year long process (the date of application pert of Avinor. Extended Squitter datalink. Squid by ERA fully was 30 June 2014) of studying the valid the WAM system for narIta InternatIonal Avinor evaluated the bids of all market lea- supports the concept of area management documentation describing the technical ding suppliers of vehicle tracking products, fo- in order to limit non-essential transmissions. data, performance, features, limitations and Airport In tokyo has been fully operatIonal cusing amongst other The system allows instructions for installations. The certificate things on reliability operators to define remains in effect until surrendered by the contInueD from paGe 1: „The final decision of tender and automatic de- discrete boundaries applicant or revoked by the Ministry. The WAM system provides surveillance for pendent surveillan- evaluation has been based outside of which the TMA to an extent of 20 NM as well as working ce-broadcast (ADS-B) upon a total evaluation of SQUID unit will shut as precision runway monitoring tool for the transmitting capabi- all criteria, which identifies down. airport‘s parallel runways. lities. ERA’s SQUIDs Stavanger Airport Based on the client‘s requirements, each will be interoperable that ERA has delivered the Sola is an internati- ground station is equipped with hardware with the existing sur- economically most advan- onal airport serving designed for operations under difficult face guidance system tageous solution.” Stavanger, a city and outdoor conditions which can withstand a at Stavanger Airport municipality in Roga- wide range of temperature (minus 40 to plus Sola and will improve tone skau monsen, land county, Norway. procurement expert of avinor 60 degrees Celsius) and possible vibrations the overall situatio- It is Norway‘s third- and movements in this region threatened serving the Greater Tokyo Area of Japan. international passenger traffic and 60 % of nal awareness and -busiest airport, with regularly by earthquakes. It is located approximately 60 kilometres its international air cargo traffic. As of 2013, safety of this international airport. The first both fixed-wing aircraft and helicopter traffic east of central Tokyo in Chiba Prefecture, Narita was the second-busiest passenger 60 SQUID units have already been delivered. for the offshore North Sea Oil installations. on narIta aIrport straddling the border between the city of airport in Japan (after another airport in The ERA-designed SQUID self-contained ve- Stavanger Airport, Sola is Norway‘s second Narita and the adjacent town of Shibayama. Tokyo named Haneda) and the tenth busiest hicle tracking unit improves airport safety by oldest airport, opened in 1937. The airport Narita International Airport, originally Narita is the largest international airport in air freight hub in the world. Its 4,000-metre continuously broadcasting the exact position was the second to have a concrete runway in known as New Tokyo Airport, is an airport Japan, handling around 50 % of the country‘s main runway is the longest one in Japan. of all ground vehicles. By using permanently Europe. 2 ERA NEWS |FEBRUARY 2016 www.era.aero ERA NEWS | FEBRUARY 2016 3 eVents eVents ERA attenDeD IAMD ERA took part In NATO conGress In WarsaW turkIsh specIalIsts InteresteD In Days at ostraVa Airport ERA mIlItary solutIons contInueD from paGe 1: displayed on screen at the ERA chalet and epresentatives from the Turkish Air Force Technological Research Council of Turkey Important Czech defence and security commented on by Czech Army radiolocation Rand the Undersecretariat for Defence led by professor of Bilkent University from companies such as TATRA & Excalibur Army, experts. Industries of the Ministry Of National Defence Ankara, then asked for details concerning the Aero Vodochody, Česká zbrojovka, LOM NATO Days is the only event which presents visited the headquarters of ERA Company performance and reliability of the systems. Praha, etc. also took part and demonstrated technology used by soldiers, fire fighters, in Pardubice in the last week of September, In addition, the ERA specialists participated their products delivered to the Czech Armed policemen, customs officers, prison service, 2015. The main goal of the visit was the in a guided “sightseeing” tour around the Forces and other security organizations. municipal police and others in one