Skyguide honoured for adopting EGNOS-based satellite navigation procedures
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Geneva, 6 March 2012. Skyguide has been awarded a distinction for its
introduction of new approach procedures based on data provided by EGNOS, the
European Satellite Based Augmentation System. The award was bestowed on
Switzerland's air navigation service provider by the GSA, the agency for
Europe's satellite navigation systems, and the ESSP, the EGNOS Service Provider,
and was presented in Amsterdam today as part of ATC Global, the annual
international conference of the air traffic services sector.
Skyguide adopted its first approach procedures based on the European
Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) last November. The new
procedures were introduced at the regional airports of St. Gallen-Altenrhein and
Les Eplatures, near La Chaux-de-Fonds. EGNOS is an augmentation system that
significantly enhances the accuracy and reliability of satellite navigation
systems such as the GPS. EGNOS came into operation in October 2009, and has been
certificated for aviation use last year. Switzerland is only the second European
country (after France) to adopt EGNOS-based flight approach procedures. In the
meantime, further airports in Europe have also joined in to use EGNOS services.
On the right track
"We have been working on the adoption of new technologies such as satellite
navigation for the aviation sector for several years now," said skyguide's Chief
Operating Officer Alex Bristol. "Satellite navigation offers substantially more
possibilities than are provided by conventional ground-based navigation systems;
and we're convinced that this new technology will play a major role in the
further development of flight procedures over the next few years. We are
delighted to receive this award," he continued. "And we regard it as clear
confirmation that we are on the right track."
"Satellite navigation is a natural evolution for the aviation sector and
introduces a major paradigm shift for technologies supporting Air Traffic
Control and Management over the last several decades," says European GNSS Agency
(GSA) Executive Director, Carlo des Dorides. "Using EGNOS is the first step in
that direction".
Dirk Werquin, ESSP President, expressed his satisfaction on how the EGNOS
implementation in European airports has started to boost since the service was
declared available for aviation: "We are now facing very stimulating years in
which EGNOS use will spread over Europe. ESSP will be there to help ANSPs in
their implementation plans and to ensure that the provision of the EGNOS
services achieves excellence".
Swiss innovation platform
Skyguide is collaborating with various partners to develop and adopt satellite-
based flight procedures. The work here is being steered and overseen by the
Swiss Federal Office of Civil Aviation, and forms part of the broader CHIPS
innovation platform. CHIPS currently has over 20 projects under way at 15
locations throughout Switzerland. In addition to the new procedures for St.
Gallen-Altenrhein and Les Eplatures, new GPS-based approaches have also been
introduced for Zurich Airport and the Inselspital hospital in Bern.
A replacement for ground-based systems
For decades now, approaches to airports have been flown using ground-based
instrument landing systems (ILS), which emit guide beams that enable the pilots
to follow a precise lateral and vertical path. With the new satellite-based
navigation technology, aircraft can approach an airport independently of any
ground installations, with the pilots using satellite signals to determine their
position and proceeding via a series of virtual waypoints within the airspace
concerned.
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Skyguide is responsible for providing air navigation services within Swiss
airspace and in the airspace of certain adjoining regions in neighbouring
countries. The company guides the civil and military aircraft entrusted to its
care - around 3,270 flights a day or 1.2 million a year - through the busiest
and most complex airspace in Europe. Skyguide is a non-profit limited company
which has its head office in Geneva. The majority of its shares are held by the
Swiss Confederation. The company generated total operating revenue of over CHF
365 million in 2010, and employs some 1,400 people at 14 locations in
Switzerland. Skyguide is also a member, together with its partner organizations
in Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, of the FABEC
initiative to create a common functional airspace block that will bring greater
efficiency to Central Europe's air traffic management services and activities.
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