More on the Europe-wide overhaul of its air traffic control technology, this time with a Swedish project to create facilities to handle central airport movements.
The idea has been kicking around for a few years, but the project is expected to start seeing some kind of deployment later this year and into 2012 after a number of tests at Ängelholm and Malmö airports.
Created by Swedish air traffic control group LFV with defence and security firm Saab, aircraft movements at two airports – Sundsvall and Örnsköldsvik – will be consolidated into a single system at Sundsvall.
Read full story at: http://www.tnooz.com/2011/08/22/news/airport-air-traffic-control-takes-a-digital-360-degree-view/
