The new second edition of the book “Virtual and Remote Control Tower: Research, Design, Development, Validation, and Implementation” has been published by Springer. The extensive book presents the interdisciplinary and international “Virtual and Remote Tower” research and development work. This … Continued
On 11 May 2021, 14:30 – 16:00, a SESAR webinar aims to give the state-of-play of SESAR JU research and development in the area of Automated Speech Recognition (ASR). Nowadays, instructions from air traffic control (ATC) to pilots are usually … Continued
DLR has published an online article about its work together with the Osnabrück University and RWTH Aachen University to develop a concept for cost-effective remote monitoring of small airports. The arctile can be found on the DLR website.
On 25 February 2020 distinguished guests from several German Airports, ATCOs, AFISOs, the regional airport association IDRF, the Deutsche Wetterdienst DWD, CNS and weather industry and the German regulatory bodies met in Braunschweig to discuss the potentials of low cost remote tower … Continued
Invitation PDF Dear Remote Tower Partners, In Oct/Nov 2019 DLR and students from the RWTH Aachen und HS Osnabrück tested a very low cost remote tower solution. The concept particularly addresses very small airport with max. AFIS service or even … Continued
On 28/05/2019 EASA invited for a workshop to introduce and discuss the recently published ED DECISION 2019/004/R ‘Remote Tower’ Guidance Material. Supportingly, the stakeholders like ANSPs, who have already remote Tower operations in use, but also local regulators were given the chance … Continued
Jersey Airport, part of Ports of Jersey Limited, has become the first British airport to achieve approval for operational use of a digital Remote Tower. This marks the first time this type of system has been used to actively control … Continued
The German public-service television broadcaster ZDF has published a long interview with Jörn Jakobi on ATC and the remote tower concept on their news website heute.de (available in German): Ein Flughafen ohne persönlich anwesende Fluglotsen? Luftfahrtexperte Jörn Jakobi erklärt am … Continued
On 19 February 2019 EASA issued ED Decision 2019/004/R on ‘remote aerodrome ATS’. This ED Decision, replacing the existing EASA guidance issued on the subject in 2015, takes into consideration the further evolution of the concept as well as experiences … Continued
Remote Tower Control now operational at International Airport Saarbrücken in Germany. This morning, on 4 December, air traffic controllers from DFS have begun controlling traffic at Saarbrücken Airport from its Remote Tower Control Centre 450 kilometres away to the east … Continued