COOPANS upgrades its Air Traffic Control System with Thales

COOPANS, the Alliance Managing Europe’s Largest Air Traffic Volume, Upgrades its Air Traffic Control (ATC) System with Thales.

New Austro Control Management Team

Austro Control will go into the future with a new management team. From May 1, Elisabeth Landrichter and Philipp Piber will be heading the Austrian air navigation service provider and aviation authority.

EXODUS: A new step for COOPANS - a giant leap for Virtual ATM Services

COOPANS is very proud to announce an agreement with the European Commission for the project EXODUS with 34,3 M€ in funding. The project is part of the SESAR 3 Joint Undertaking and shall establish and demonstrate a Virtual Centre concept across all six COOPANS members.

Full OLDI implementation in COOPANS underway

'Full OLDI' (Online Data Interchange; a protocol for co-ordination and transfer of current flight data between adjacent air traffic control units) has already been introduced between Austrocontrol & Croatia Control in spring 2023. 

Philipp Piber the new Chairperson of the COOPANS Alliance Board

Philipp Piber, Managing Director of Austro Control, has taken over as Chairperson of the COOPANS Alliance Board for the next 2 years. Mario Kunovec Varga, appointed as new Director General of Croatia Control in April of this year, was elected COOPANS Vice-Chair.

IAA Chief Executive, Peter Kearney, takes over chair of the A6 Alliance for 2023

IAA Chief Executive, Mr Peter Kearney has taken over as Chair of A6 Alliance from Mr. Ángel Luis Arias, Director General ENAIRE, the Spanish Air Navigation Service Provider, effective 1 January 2023.

COOPANS and Thales progress on the SESAR virtual centre activities

Paris ---- COOPANS and Thales have reached another milestone in their collaboration around the development of virtual centres, supported by SESAR. 

SESAR ”TBO” validations, video & achievements

As highlighted in a previous post, COOPANS Alliance air traffic controllers and Thales performed the SESAR 3 Joint Undertaking PJ18 4DSkyways Real Time Simulations for PJ.18-W2-53 and PJ.18-W2-56 in April 2022 at the Thales SkyCentre in Rungis.

Successful SESAR Validations, Trajectory Based Operations

This week at the Thales SkyCenter in Rungis, COOPANS Alliance air traffic controllers and Thales run the SESAR 3 Joint Undertaking PJ18 Real Time Simulations for PJ.18-W2-53 and PJ.18-W2-56.

The third “Leading SAFe” training performed in COOPANS

The third “Leading SAFe” training has successfully been performed in the COOPANS Alliance. 

Adverse weather areas and conflict detection tools integration

In the framework of the SESAR Horizon 2020 4DSkyways project (PJ.18W2 – Solution 53), the COOPANS SESAR Consortium and AT-ONE are validating the integration of adverse weather areas and conflict detection tools in an effort to improve safety and flight efficiency.

Intense Lean agile training

COOPANS Programme Director has again hosted and conducted a lean-agile training (Leading SAFe), this time for the members of COOPANS Programme Board and selected staff from  Implementation pillar and SESAR2020. 

COOPANS transforming business operations

The COOPANS Alliance and its industry partner THALES have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to reinforce their partnership in order to apply for joint SESAR 3 innovation projects and modernize the COOPANS ATC system currently deployed in six European countries, using next-generation global product TopSky - ATCOne,

COOPANS SESAR3 Core team conducts lean-agile training

COOPANS SESAR3 Core team did this week conduct at lean-agile training. 

COOPANS announces new appointments to senior management positions

The COOPANS ANSP Alliance has today announced two new senior management appointments.  The appointments are designed to prepare and position the Alliance for change and further development in the coming decade.