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20 June 2017

The Safety Forum: an event from the industry for the industry

The 5 th edition of the Safety Forum was themed: ‘Preventing Runway Collision’. It targeted operational and safety professionals with the objective...
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14 June 2017

Monitoring fatigue and stress while performing ATCO tasks

EUROCONTROL brings its extensive experience in applying Human Performance analysis, and assessing stress and fatigue management, to Horizon 2020’s...
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31 May 2017

The main challenge for aircraft tracking is not technology, but information management

At the well-attended 2017 Flight Location and Data Recovery Conference in Hamburg, EUROCONTROL joined aircraft manufacturers, airlines, air...
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29 May 2017

Operational Safety Study: preventing runway collisions

The Network Manager has released an Operational Safety Study on Sudden High Energy Runway Conflict (SHERC) to serve as a reference for Network actors...
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19 May 2017

Managing complexity in a fast-changing world

CEOs, COOs, Safety Directors, Safety Managers and experts from 33 European air navigation service providers (ANSPs) and the EUROCONTROL Network...
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7 April 2017

The aviation community comes together to discuss the Future Sky Safety research programme

This four-year Future Sky Safety research programme sponsored by the European Commission held its first public conference at EUROCONTROL HQ on 8-9...
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8 March 2017

Delays – three questions and many answers

Last time you took a flight, was it delayed? By how much? And why? Simple questions to ask, but it’s much more complicated to answer them. First is...
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16 February 2017

Providing efficiency, safety and capacity in difficult times

“The Network was in good shape in 2014 and 2015. But in 2016 the delay has increased; clearly not enough capacity at the right time was delivered...
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16 January 2017

Safety Forum 2017 – Call for submissions

On 6–7 June, the Flight Safety Foundation, EUROCONTROL and the European Regions Airline Association are organising the 5th Annual Safety Forum at...
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11 November 2016

Reflecting on 10 years of EVAIR’s contribution to air safety

In the aftermath of the Linate Airport runway accident in 2001 and the Überlingen mid-air collision in 2002, EUROCONTROL set up AGAS (the High Level...
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