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Eurocontrol has dropped plans to reform its formula for en route charges for air traffic control services.

For the upcoming European football championship, jointly hosted by Switzerland and Austria, the Zurich police department has decided to supplement its crow

The SESAR (Single European Sky ATM Research) program to define and implement a new air traffic management system for the Single European Sky (SES) presents

According to Eurocontrol, by 2010, European operators will have ordered some 500 very light jets (VLJs) and about 300 of these will have been delivered by

In an interim report issued in late March, the Commission on the Future of the U.S.

Europe approved funding late last month to launch full development of the Galileo satellite navigation system, which will provide the EU with an alternativ

Changes are on the way that will address pilots’ complaints about the Rnav arrival and departure procedures at Las Vegas.

Six additional flight levels will be introduced later this month in northern Canada airspace when Nav Canada implements reduced vertical separation minimum

In February, London Heathrow became the latest European airport to opt for the microwave landing system (MLS) as its future precision approach landing aid.

Although the official raison d’etre for the Friends/Partners in Aviation Weather is to coordinate the needs of users and the ability of the Nation

With the anticipated publication this month of an NPRM in the Federal Register, the FAA is laying the groundwork for implementation of domestic re

The FAA has awarded contracts to Rockwell Collins, Honeywell and Avidyne for development of technology that will integrate digital voice and data into air-

DOT Secretary Norman Mineta announced last month an action plan aimed at mitigating the vulnerability of GPS to inadvertent interference and deliberate jam

The FAA’s Operational Evolution Plan (OEP) is moving to regain the momentum lost following September 11.

Changes in flight paths around the Washington-Baltimore area, which have nothing to do with security implications, are being proposed in anticipation of th

In light of last year’s DOT study of the vulnerability of GPS to unintentional interference and intentional jamming, Boeing and Rockwell Collins suggest th

In the past several years there have been many magazine articles touting the promise of the Head-up Guidance System (HGS).

Efforts by a Newburgh, N.Y.

Eurocontrol’s upper-area control center at Maastricht in the Netherlands on November 3 activated its new operations facility, which includes an advanced op

Free Flight describes a future air-traffic environment where we will fly unrestricted “trajectories” from departure to destination, based on our choice of

The recent successful completion of a 60-day continuous performance test of the FAA’s wide-area augmentation system (WAAS) is expected to clear the way for

In a down economy it usually makes sense to focus on the finer details of running a business.

The FAA has awarded an initial $20.5 million contract to ITT Industries aerospace/communications division to provide the agency with multimode VHF digital

The unions representing nearly 20,000 employees of the FAA have joined in a coalition “to hold the FAA accountable” for meeting its modernization goals and

At press time, technical experts from the FAA, the U.S.

Charlie Keegan, who has headed the FAA’s Free Flight Office since its inception three years ago, has been named to lead the modernization effort outlined i

Honeywell’s legal dispute with ACSS over EGPWS patents may be on its way to a private arbitrator instead of a courtroom, if the sides can agree on terms.