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Wednesday, December 04, 2019
The European GNSS Agency (GSA) and the European Satellite Services Provider (ESSP) have launched the 2019 edition of its EGNOS User Satisfaction Survey. This survey will provide a better understanding of the value of EGNOS to end users and help ensure that future evolutions of the system continue to meet users’ needs.
Users…
Thursday, November 28, 2019
Mr. de Piccoli (Telespazio), began his presentation in the Annual EGNOS workshop by explaining the U-Space concept, a set of procedures and services that aim to enable safe use of airspace for large number of drones, as well as the specific services to which EGNOS could contribute. After that, the issues…
Thursday, November 28, 2019
Mr. Vázquez from ESSP-SAS introduced EDAS and its services, in the in Annual EGNOS workshop, focusing on the variety of GNSS products that are delivered by EDAS, and their potential to address a wide range of user needs. Then the classification of the active EDAS-based applications/usage cases was presented by market segment, showing that EDAS…
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Mr. Mathieu Hiale-Guilhamou from Airbus, was the guest speaker to share in the Annual EGNOS workshop a few words on how EGNOS is entering the world of commercial airliners. Mr. Hiale-Guilhamou introduced the strategy followed by Airbus, from a cockpit perspective, to introduce LPV approaches in their aircraft through the “SLS (…
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
The last round of presentations of the first day of the Annual EGNOS workshop began with Mr. Stefano Oprandi from VistaJet, on the stage. VistaJet, a business jet operator with a global presence, is currently operating a fleet of 73 aircraft, 57 of which are approved for LPV approaches. Mr. Oprandi explained how…
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
The final presentation of Day 1 in the Annual EGNOS workshop was provided by Mr. Tarek Sabanekh, CMC Electronics’ Strategic Marketing Manager. After dedicating a few words to the origins and history of the company and to the impressive GPS product portfolio at CMC, Mr. Sabanekh focused on the success of the company in providing retrofit…
Monday, November 11, 2019
The LPV implementation status on the ground was firstly presented in the Annual EGNOS workshop by Mr Josip Josipović, Executive Director, Regional ATC Centres at Croatia Control. Currently, 70% of the country’s instrument runway ends are already served by LPV approaches, and the company has a sound plan to…
Monday, November 11, 2019
Mr. Patrizio Vanni, from the Italian ANSP (ENAV), gave in the Annual EGNOS workshop audience an overall picture of the company’s past, present and future contributions to the use of EGNOS in aviation.
ENAV has been active in GNSS since the late 90s. It was a founding member of ESSP and, amongst several RIMS, has hosted one of the system’s…
Monday, November 11, 2019
Lars Erik Bragstad and Lars Amdal, both helicopter pilots from Norsk Luftambulanse AS, presented in the Annual EGNOS workshop the implementation process for EGNOS approach procedures for PinS and Low-Level Routes in Norway and Denmark, in non-ATS environments.
To establish the operational and legal framework for using EGNOS…
Tuesday, November 05, 2019
Arnór Bergur Kristinsson, from Isavia, presented in the Annual EGNOS workshop the most significant milestones in the implementation of the first EGNOS approach procedure at Húsavík airport (BIHU) in Iceland. The location of this country, at the border of the APV-I coverage area required the development of a dedicated EGNOS, performance research…