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Thursday, November 28, 2019
Carmen Aguilera (GSA) presented on the second day of the in the Annual EGNOS workshop the methodology defined by GSA to foster adoption of EGNOS in maritime, rail, agriculture and geomatics market segments. She provided an overview of the priority activities for GSA in each…
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…
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…
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…
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Over the last ten years, EGNOS OPEN SERVICE has been providing end-users with a wide range of benefits. Increased and more sustainable agricultural production strongly relies on GNSS-enabled solutions.
SBAS-based solutions are becoming of great importance in Precision Agriculture (PA) applications, frequently being the…
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
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
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
Mr. Bouniol, from Thales Avionics, presented in the Annual EGNOS workshop the status of the EDG²E project (Equipment for Dual frequency Galileo GPS and EGNOS), its achievements and the next steps. In terms of status, phase 1 of the project, which dealt with the definition of the HW architecture and support for the standardisation activities, has…