12/3/2023 0 Comments Air traffic control systemPilots will still be physically in the cockpits and air traffic controllers remotely in the facilities, including remote towers. I do not see how what has not been implemented in the past 50 years could be in the 50 years to come, not only full automation for what it means but automatic conflict detection and resolution and time-based arrival sequencing. I do not foresee any revolution or a change of paradigm. Even ICAO, in its decarbonisation roadmap, this Long-Term Aspiration Goal (LTAG, what an acronym!) limits itself to 2070, and I will do the same. I do not feel bold enough to forecast the next 100 years. Mass mobile phone communications are up to 5 G, but ATC voice communication is half-G!? “planning” it, and in Europe, so far, the ADS-C is a piecemeal surrogate. For example, in the US NAS of 1980, the full data link coverage over the USA was planned for … 1995. Despite the successive plans: in the USA, the National Airspace System (NAS) plan, the famous Brown Book, Free Flight, Nextgen and in Europe, EATCHIP, EATMS, ATM+, SESAR, all in all, there have not been that many significant changes, unless one considers moving from black and white round displays to colour rectangular ones to be one. Therefore, my knowledge of the rest of the world is limited. This is a summary of a presentation made in Brussels in October 2022 on the occasion of IFATCA's 100 years of ATC celebrationĭuring the first 50 years, from what I read in the books, there have been a lot of changes from procedural ATC to radar with horizontal displays with “shrimp boats” and, later, vertical displays with primitive computers.ĭuring the second half of these 100 years, I have been an actor, mainly in Europe and a little in the USA. By Jean-Marc Garot former Director of the EUROCONTROL Experimental Centre in Brétigny
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