Broome Airport will receive a new $20 million integrated fire station and air traffic control tower which is expected to become operational in 2011. “As the first combined facility of its kind in Australia, the new, state-of-the-art Aviation and Rescue Fire Fighting service and air traffic control tower will bring together the major safety infrastructure
Airservices Australia CEO Greg Russell has told a Senate committee hearing that more than half of the 24,000 noise complaints received by the ATC provider came from only 20 individuals. Russell noted that two-thirds of complaints received in Perth were from the same two people, while one-third of complaints in Sydney came from one person.
Boeing has been awarded a research and development contract of up to US$1.7bn (A$2bn) from the US Federal Aviation Administration as part of the FAA’s Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen). Under the contract, Boeing will provide air traffic management modeling and simulation as well as the full integration of ground and airborne technologies and
Airservices Australia has announced that it will upgrade the instrument landing system (ILS) at Cairns Airport to increase its reliability. The upgrade will cost $3 million and will be undertaken before the onset of the wet season. The works are expected to be done in such a way that disruption to air traffic at the
Transport Minister Anthony Albanese has reappointed David Forsyth as the chairman of Airservices Australia and Hank Meertens as a board member, while also appointing Jude Munro as a new member of the board. “I am pleased that Mr Forsyth has agreed to serve a second term as chair of the Airservices board to continue to
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has mandated that all aircraft operating in certain airspace will be required to carry and use Automatic Depedent Surveillance – Broadcast (ADS-B) Out technology from 2020 as part of its NextGen project. “This rule gives the green light for manufacturers to begin building the onboard equipment that will allow
