World ATM Special edition/2016
— Isavia and tern news bites —
iSAVIA NOMINATED FOR TWO SERVICE PROVISION AWARDS IHS Jane‘s shortlist for the ATC Awards 2016 includes two Isavia projects nominated in the Service Provision category. OCEANIC SURVEILLANCE CORRIDOR Isavia now provides unified operational surveillance coverage in the Reykjavik Control Area. With the implementation of ADS-B and radar data from Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and Greenland, Isavia has established a transatlantic surveillance corridor bridging Europe and North America, delivering efficiency, safety, and environmental benefits.
“The nominations are clear evidence of the good work carried out within Isavia in the last years.” — Ásgeir Pálsson, Isavia‘s ANS director
This allows aircraft to cross the ocean at or closer to the optimum flight level, thus reducing fuel consumption and CO2 emissions, with lower cost for aircraft operators. In the surveillance corridor safety is also improved through more frequent and accurate aircraft position updates. These are exciting times for operators and air traffic controllers in Iceland as Isavia makes another step, with the help of ADS-B, toward improved service and reduced cost for operators, as well as introducing key environmental benefits.
VCCS VIRTUAL CENTRE The collaboration between IAA, Isavia and Rhode & Schwartz essentially creates a virtual centre for North Atlantic air traffic communications in the region. The R&S ®VCS-4G provides the technology to enable air traffic to be divided between communication stations so that traffic peaks at each station are minimised and the work load is evenly distributed between them instead of dividing the traffic according to the edges of the control areas. In this way, the services can be improved and future expenditure lowered. One
centre can also act as a contingency for the other if a catastrophic failure occured at either centre.
two stations will continuously refine the procedures for joint operations to reap the benefits of the virtual centre.
Isavia and IAA’s collaboration with the system manufacturers Tern Systems and R&S has resulted in a virtual centre for North Atlantic air traffic communications in the region. In the coming years the
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