Air Traffic Control Exhibition and Conference
25 February 1997 - 25 February 1997
Netherlands
ATC'97, the annual international Air Traffic Control Exhibition and Conference, will take place in Maastricht, The Netherlands, from 25 to 27 February 1997. The event is being supported by EUROCONTROL and will include the participation of DG VII (Transport), DG XII (Science, research and development) and DG XIII (Telecommunications, information market and exploitation of research) of the European Commission.
The ATC'97 conference will provide a common forum for the global air traffic control industry to discuss the pitfalls and promises of "free-flight" operations. "Free-flight" means giving aircraft operators the freedom to select their path and speed in real time. It will revolutionize global ATC and ATM operations in the next century, keeping ATC restrictions to a minimum, minimizing airport congestion and preventing unauthorized flight through special-use airspace.
Achieving free-flight is, however, bound up with a host of organizational, procedural, political and infrastructural problems. Some of the key issues to be discussed at the conference will include:
- The significance, if any, of national boundaries in airspace management systems of the future;
- The implications of free-flight to the presence of civil/military airspace structures;
- Achieving a fair distribution of airspace use for airlines, military operators, general aviation and other users;
- Ensuring safe separations: but via the pilot or the controller?
- How does the privatization and commercialization of national ATC organizations fit in with a frontierless airspace?
- How can international efforts be coordinated so the concept is introduced evenly across the globe?
The conference, which will be truly international in scope, will be accompanied by the ATC'97 exhibition, in which over 80 international companies will showcase a wide spectrum of equipment, products and services used in air traffic management.
For further information, please contact:
ATC'97
Ms. Lesley Offley
Jane's Airport Group
Sentinel House
163 Brighton Road
Coulsdon
Surrey CR5 2NH
United Kingdom
Tel. +44-181-7003853; Fax +44-181-7003859
The ATC'97 conference will provide a common forum for the global air traffic control industry to discuss the pitfalls and promises of "free-flight" operations. "Free-flight" means giving aircraft operators the freedom to select their path and speed in real time. It will revolutionize global ATC and ATM operations in the next century, keeping ATC restrictions to a minimum, minimizing airport congestion and preventing unauthorized flight through special-use airspace.
Achieving free-flight is, however, bound up with a host of organizational, procedural, political and infrastructural problems. Some of the key issues to be discussed at the conference will include:
- The significance, if any, of national boundaries in airspace management systems of the future;
- The implications of free-flight to the presence of civil/military airspace structures;
- Achieving a fair distribution of airspace use for airlines, military operators, general aviation and other users;
- Ensuring safe separations: but via the pilot or the controller?
- How does the privatization and commercialization of national ATC organizations fit in with a frontierless airspace?
- How can international efforts be coordinated so the concept is introduced evenly across the globe?
The conference, which will be truly international in scope, will be accompanied by the ATC'97 exhibition, in which over 80 international companies will showcase a wide spectrum of equipment, products and services used in air traffic management.
For further information, please contact:
ATC'97
Ms. Lesley Offley
Jane's Airport Group
Sentinel House
163 Brighton Road
Coulsdon
Surrey CR5 2NH
United Kingdom
Tel. +44-181-7003853; Fax +44-181-7003859