Airservices is reminding pilots 179 ground-based navigation aids will be progressively switched off from 0400 Thursday. The decommissioning, which also affects associated non-precision approach procedures, is prescribed in Civil Aviation Order 20.18 and comes after the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) mandated the use of GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) as the primary needs of navigation
The Australian Aviation Associations’ Forum has called for the privatisation of Airservices, with the funds used to set up an Aviation Future Fund. The Forum says the current Airservices’ model is “no longer capable of effectively responding to emerging aviation opportunities or the need for greater efficiency”. “The partially-corporatised model under which Airservices Australia has
Airservices has appointed Jason Harfield as its new chief executive, effective immediately. The announcement on Wednesday afternoon makes permanent a role Harfield has held on an acting basis since former chief executive Margaret Staib left the organisation in August 2015. Airservices said Harfield’s appointment came after an “extensive executive search conducted with the assistance of
Thirty-two graduates of Airservices’ Diploma of Aviation (Air Traffic Control) have commenced work with the nation’s air traffic controller after completing the 24-month course and obtaining their Air Traffic Control licence rating and endorsement. The eight women and 24 men have been variously assigned to control towers in Brisbane, Cairns, Parafield and Rockhampton, as well
Airservices says contracts for further software design work on the new Onesky air traffic control system have been signed with Thales Australia. The contract is the latest step in the development of the new air traffic management system, which aims to combine Australia’s separate civil and military air traffic management systems into one program. Parts
Some overnight flights taking off to the south on Perth Airport’s Runway 21 will have a new flight path as part of a trial to monitor aircraft noise. Airservices is conducting the trial over two periods between February and April to compare actual noise levels from the new flight path with noise modelling data that
