Avinor plans new tower solution for airports – Technical Magazine

Avinor introduces remote tower services at Norwegian airports. One tower center to monitor the approach and departure by up to 15 airports, and first center added to Bodo.

– The initiative will provide a secure and more efficient operation of the airports. It adds again to ensure that airlines can maintain the good route network on our many airports in Norway, says CEO Anders Kirsebom Avinor Air Navigation.

Avinor’s Board decided Friday that tower center for the first 15 towers added to Bodo . A prerequisite is that the board in June finally gives the green light for investment. The aim is that the center will be ready in 2017.

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Tested

Instead of having a traditional control tower where people govern air traffic at the site, will receive placing cameras and sensors at airports. So gather tower personnel in a larger center, where one driver tower service to several airports simultaneously.

Avinor has tested the technology by Værøy Heliport and Røst.

– Many of the control tower in Norway was built 60-70 century, is ripe for renovation or replacement. With remote controlled turrets avoids Avinor and other airport operators large proportion of these costs. In the future, we also expect that one person will be able to handle the traffic at several airports from the same position, said Kirsebom.

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High safety

It has been important for Avinor to establish the first tower center at an airport and in a place where the Group already has a large presence, says Avinor in a statement.

Avinors control center located in Bodo.

Fonts center will be planned in order to cope tower service by up to 15 airports, mainly airports in northern Norway with local flight information (AFIS).

Which airports which will not get remotely controlled turrets, will be decided in the spring.

Avinor conducts comprehensive safety analysis of systems and working methods, and the establishment of remote presupposes an acceptance by the CAA.

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