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To learn more about our TopSky-ATM Solutions, scan the QR code or visit thalesgroup.com Skyway 7 NUMBER 57 | SUMMER 2012 EDITORIAL 26 Finding room for ghters to train VIEWPOINTS 9 Future success will depend on 32 Opening the sky to unmanned 69 Greater clarity required on better connections – between air vehicles costs and bene ts people and computers Simon McNamara, Deputy Director Bo Redeborn, Principal Director ATM 36 Route charges: how they came General of the European Regions about and what’s new Airline Association WAYPOINTS 42 Reducing ow management 72 Single European Sky - can the restrictions on tra c airlines hope for the best? 13 EUROCONTROL forecasts a 1.7 per cent Athar Husain Khan, acting Secretary decline in ights in 2012 46 Collaborative environmental General of the Association of London Heathrow becomes fth management goes viral European Airlines (AEA) CDM airport Continuous descent operations in use 52 ARTAS brings clarity to surveillance 74 We are concerned with the slow at over 80 European airports progress on FABs Montreal hosts 12th air navigation 56 Data link is key to more predictable Pedro Vicente Azua, Chief conference ight trajectories Operating O cer of the European EUROCONTROL News in brief Business Aviation Association (EBAA) 60 New ways of capturing real safety data FOCUS 63 Airspace users at the heart of de ning the future ATM system TAIL END 16 There will be a very, very di erent ATM system in 2020 66 Improving network connections 78 Calendar of events 78 Advertising index 22 Europe’s rst performance review period targets airspace capacity and cost Summer 2012 | www.eurocontrol.int EUROCONTROL KEEP ABREAST OF EUROCONTROL AND ATM NEWS “Working together to deliver the Single European Sky” Join us on aceaceace aceace Send an email to [email protected] to receive our: n Skyway magazine n bi-monthly electronic news digest n quarterly corporate e-newsletter n press releases www.eurocontrol.int AD_Publications.indd 1 22/06/12 09:54 Skyway 9 EDITORIAL FUTURE SUCCESS WILL DEPEND ON BETTER CONNECTIONS BETWEEN PEOPLE AND COMPUTERS Air tra c management (ATM) amounts of time in close dialogue person, as well as computer-to- organisations have a tradition with aircraft operators of all types computer. of doing some things very well so that we can fully understand Some of the most important and other things not quite well the priorities they set for their challenges we face in enough. di erent operations and how implementing a new ATM It is understandable that – these can be accommodated system for the continent because our core competencies within the future ATM system. involve a complex balance of are focused on the very complex The transparency of decision- interests. These can only be task of creating an ATM system making based on accurate and properly addressed when airport which is predominantly safe timely data shared between us operators understand how tower and increasingly cost-e ective, all could well be the catalyst to a controllers see the world, when e cient and environmentally new type of relationship between tower controllers understand the responsible – in the past we have Europe’s infrastructure providers priorities of aircraft operators and not spent enough time really and their aircraft operator how everything connects. For exploring all the ways in which customers. This is certainly a key example, when an airline decides we could use our capabilities to priority for EUROCONTROL and in to save fuel by employing single- support our customers.