Air navigation services employees awarded new professional college degree
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Geneva, 25.05.2012. The Swiss Federal Office of Professional Education and
Technology (OPET) has officially recognised skyguide's training programme for
air navigation services employees as a professional college degree course.
Skyguide's in-house training centre is the only facility in Switzerland that
trains air navigation services personnel. The federally recognised college
degree was awarded for the first time on 4 May 2012 and will offer air
navigation services personnel greater scope and flexibility in their continuing
professional development. The training programme for air traffic controllers was
officially recognised as a professional college degree course by OPET in late
2009.
Attractive training
The official recognition by OPET means that the training programme for air
navigation services personnel meets the standards of a professional college
degree. The federally approved degree will allow graduates to access a broader
range of professional development courses. Thanks to greater flexibility in the
training system, this course has now become more attractive to students. The
first degrees for air navigation personnel were awarded on 4 May 2012.
Air navigation service employees can be divided into two groups. The first group
supports the work of air traffic controllers at the company's Geneva and
Dübendorf control centres, managing traffic flows and volumes in close
collaboration with Eurocontrol's Central Flow Management Unit in Brussels. They
also ensure that air traffic controllers' workloads remain manageable at all
times. The second group works at skyguide's Aeronautical Information Management
Unit, processing aviation-related data and serving as a central source of
information and advice for pilots.
42 degrees awarded
This year's degree ceremony for air traffic controllers and air traffic
personnel took place at the Hotel Bellevue Palace in Bern. 42 degrees were
awarded in total. "An important day for our new colleagues and for skyguide",
COO Alex Bristol emphasised in his speech. "This year, skyguide will be
controlling 1.2 million flight movements. We will issue 740,000 take-off and
landing clearances and monitor 80,000 military movements. At skyguide our
mission is to ensure that this traffic is guided safely."
This responsibility will now lie partly in the hands of the skyguide graduates.
Their jobs chiefly revolve around the key issue of safety, with each individual
in the team being given a high degree of responsibility. As well as being given
a solid theoretical foundation in the basics of aviation on the degree course,
everyday work situations are practised and tested one to one in simulators.
After successfully passing the basic training course, future air navigation
services employees work under the supervision of coaches on the job. The two
year course ends with a theoretical and practical examination.
CEO Daniel Weder spoke of the future in which the graduates will work. Skyguide
is planning the virtual merger of the Geneva and Dübendorf centres. "One Centre
for Two Locations will make it possible to link the entire airspace and allow
you to control it flexibly from either or both locations, depending on the
volume of air traffic". This new type of system architecture in Switzerland
could also be developed at European level. Skyguide is actively contributing to
the close collaboration of European air navigation organisations, instead of
each organisation being confined to national borders. Daniel Weder ended his
speech by wishing the graduates every success for the future and asking them to
always keep the most important thing in our business uppermost in their minds -
people.
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Skyguide is responsible for providing air navigation services in Switzerland and
some of the adjacent airspace of neighbouring countries. Skyguide guides some
3,270 civil and military flights a day (around 1.2 million flights a year)
through the busiest and most complex airspace in Europe. It is a non-profit
public limited company under Swiss law with its headquarters in Geneva. The
Swiss Confederation is the majority shareholder. In 2011, Skyguide generated a
turnover of over CHF 427 million and employs 1,400 staff at 14 locations in
Switzerland. Together with air navigation organisations in Belgium, Germany,
France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, skyguide is a member of the FABEC
initiative to create a common functional airspace block that aims to increase
the efficiency of air navigation systems in Central Europe.
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