Eurocontrol’s Maastricht Upper Area Control Center (Muac) is supplying air traffic data to the Royal Netherlands Air Force (
RNLAF) in a project designed to better coordinate civil and military flights in some of Europe’s busiest airspace. Eurocontrol said the data-sharing system has started initial operations with 11 military controller and two supervisory positions.
Under the terms of a cooperation agreement Eurocontrol and the Netherlands Ministry of Defense signed earlier this year, the Muac is providing correlated radar and flight-plan data to the
RNLAF’s Air Operations Control Station at Nieuw Milligen and seven air bases. The military controllers at Nieuw Milligen use the same system and data as their civil counterparts at the Muac, which is located at Maastricht Aachen Airport. Eurocontrol is also providing the
RNLAF with equipment and training for the
SAS, or shared air traffic services system, which is considered an enabling project of the Single European Sky effort.
The establishment of this remotely operated “virtual center” hosted within the Muac’s operational system “paves the way for further harmonization in air traffic management” and provides a solution for the “defragmentation” of European airspace as required by Single European Sky regulations, according to Herman Baret, Muac head of
ATM strategy and development
Read more: Eurocontrol Shares Air Traffic Data with Netherlands Air Force | Aviation International News
No comments:
Post a Comment