The transformation of air traffic services over the North Atlantic has taken another step forward this month with the trial introduction of new reduced lateral aircraft separations. The minimum distance between aircraft ‘wing tip to wing tip’ has been reduced from 23 to 19 nautical miles (nm), enabling greater flexibility in how available airspace capacity is used. It follows the reduction in the minimum safe ‘nose to tail’ separation between aircraft from 40nm to 14nm in March and represents another step towards the end of the traditional system of rigid…

MCLEAN, VIRGINIA -23 October 2019 – Aireon LLC (Aireon) and COCESNA (Corporación Centroamericana de Servicios de Navegación Aérea) announced that they have signed an agreement to deploy space-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) in Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua.

Aireon and Atech Negocios em Tecnologias S/A announced today that space-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) data has been successfully integrated into SAGITARIO, Atech’s Air Traffic Control (ATC) automation platform, utilized by Brazilian Department of Airspace Control (DECEA).

Despite concerns over meeting deadlines, ADS-B offers business aviation companies opportunities to improve safety and processes. Space-based ADS-B Out enables suitably equipped aircraft to broadcast their position via a datalink to a ground station. The aircraft determines its position using global positioning system (GPS) satellites and then uses a transmitter to communicate that position at short intervals to ground stations. Read Full Article