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Thales to modernise Zambia's air traffic control with latest TopSky ATC solution 10 Oct 2023 Share this...
Thales is working with Zambia Airports Corporation Limited to modernise the TopSky – ATC systems at the ATC centres at Kenneth Kaunda International Airport, Lusaka and Harry Mwanga Nkumbula International Airport, Livingstone. Thanks to the Datalink CPDLC and ADS-C solutions, Zambia’s ATC centres and pilots will be able to communicate via data messages instead of conventional voice radio. This upgrade will enhance flight safety by mitigating the risk of degraded radio communications. VHF channels will still be available as the primary mode of communication in the Flight Information Region (...
The FAA plans to allow business and general aviation aircraft to resume using enroute CPDLC by August 31.
CORRECTION An error had crept into the concluding section of Eng. Parakrama Jayasinghe’s article, ‘Electricity tariff: A rational approach needed’, published on this page yesterday. The paragraph should have read as follows: “It must be accepted that the decision on final consumer tariff must necessarily be a national economic issue and thus cannot be left […]
While I was reading Dr B. J. C. Perera’s article, Railway Observation Saloons then and now, about the deterioration of railway service, my thoughts went back to the late 1950s, when I served the then known Ceylon Government Railways (CGR) for a few wonderful years. There were no Observation Saloons, but Restaurant Cars, run by […]