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Friday, 7 May 2021, 12:29 pm
Airways New Zealand today welcomed the Civil
Aviation Authority’s decision that the current Aerodrome
Flight Information Service remain at Milford Sound
Piopiotahi Aerodrome.
In May 2020 Airways
launched a review of the air traffic services it provides at
seven regional airports which had reducing traffic volumes,
including the Milford Sound Piopiotahi Aerodrome.
The
purpose of the review has been twofold: to confirm that the
right level of Air Traffic Control is provided at the
airports, and that appropriate agreements are in place for
funding these services.
Airways CEO Graeme Sumner says
“Our goal has been to make sure that there is an
Since July 2020 a cloud-based air situation display system called PHOENIX WebInnovation has been used at Adolf Würth Airport to facilitate safe air traffic management. The tool runs in an on-premise cloud in the airport control tower and was developed by DFS Aviation Services GmbH in Langen, a subsidiary of DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung.
Cloud solutions are currently still fairly unusual in the ATM sector. With the installation of the web- and cloud-based air traffic control system PHOENIX WebInnovation, the control tower at Adolf Würth Airport is the first of its kind in Germany and now uses this system to efficiently carry out its AFIS (Aerodrome Flight Information Services), which the aerodrome has been obliged to provide for several years. Due to an increased volume of IFR traffic and the resulting rise in complexity in recent years, the need arose to upgrade the aerodrome’s air traffic control systems and introduce additional radar monitoring.