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Since 2020, The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has been working on a regulatory framework for U-space, the European UAS traffic management (UTM) system. The European Commission released its framework for U-space last April and the regulation will go into effect in 2023. As Buatas says, “This regulation represents an important first opportunity to establish a performance-based and risk-based regulatory framework that can provide some certainty to all airspace users and enable the development of the drone services economy and the multiple valuable societal and economic benefits drones can deliver.”
“Aviation is entering a second golden age,” says Ken Carlisle, World ATM Congress event director, who also adds that “its future is built through dialogue, cooperation, and the construction of a common space.”
During World ATM Congress, attendees can learn how the international UTM sector is working on operator training and certification, airworthiness, procedures, and new airspace structures such as vertiports make safe efficient operations.
For Carlos Poveda, CEO of UMILES, the largest remotely piloted aircraft service provider in Spain, “the new trend of electrification in manned and unmanned aeronautics is the necessary evolution of this constantly evolving sector.” Poveda adds that this alliance between the World ATM Congress and Expodrónica represents a step towards total and continuous integration. “We can all live by the highest standards in safety and efficiency.”
Today’s programming will serve as a showcase for the presentation of the proposals that will make Spain a focus of innovation and development of tests, infrastructure, and essential connectivity solutions for the sector to deploy its full potential in terms of the immediate integration of drones in services, goods, and people transport.
Isavia ANS, Iceland’s Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP), announced today that it has signed an agreement with Aireon LLC (Aireon) to expand usage of its space-based ADS-B data. Isavia ANS provides air navigation services across 5.4 million square kilometres of controlled airspace that extends from the North Pole to Scotland and from the prime meridian in Greenwich to west of Greenland.
As an early supporter of Aireon’s space-based ADS-B technology, Isavia ANS was one of the first air navigation service providers to sign an agreement to implement the Aireon system. With the completion of the satellite constellation in 2019, Aireon data was integrated into Isavia ANS’s air traffic control operations for managed airspace below 70° North Latitude in December 2020.
With this latest agreement to expand coverage, Isavia ANS will use Aireon’s live data feed for sectors above 70° North Latitude starting in March 2022. This technology expansion will facilitate a more dynamic, safer and more efficient use of airspace in the northern sectors, improving traffic awareness and Search and Rescue (SAR) capabilities in remote locations. Polar route service will also be improved, as the new surveillance capabilities encourage greater usage. Isavia ANS managed airspace is part of the NAT region, where Aireon is also used by NAV CANADA and NATS since 2019.
“With the expansion of Aireon’s air traffic surveillance system into the Isavia ANS’s northern control area, we will enhance safety and service by harmonizing procedures and conformance monitoring with other parts of the control area and maximize current technical investments,” said Thórdís Sigurðardóttir COO of Isavia ANS. She added, “We look forward to working with Aireon’s implementation team once again to deploy this next phase, which will allow flights to be tracked across our polar region in real time.”
“Isavia ANS continues to show their leadership in new technology adoption with the expansion of Aireon’s satellite-based ADS-B air traffic surveillance system in their northern airspace,” said Don Thoma, CEO, Aireon. “We are proud of the partnership we have with the Isavia team, as they make great strides to advance the safety and efficiency of remote airspace with real-time surveillance.”
The entirety of Isavia ANS managed airspace will now utilize Aireon’s space-based ADS-B data, merged with ground-based surveillance sources into the ATM Surveillance Tracker and Server (ARTAS) used by Isavia ANS in their ATC automation platform.
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