Our guest today is Marita Lintener - President-Elect of IAWA (International Aviation Womens Association) and MD/founder of Lintener Aviation Consultancy, talking about the current struggle of attracting and retaining new talents in the aviation and ATM industry. We listen to Marita's views about how to attract new talents, which skills will be of a value in the future, what skills make great leaders, how to encourage diversity in work teams and design attractive workplaces, the importan...
Today's guests Juliette Bonet - Airside Operation Manager at Paris Airport and Pierre Berolatti - Deputy Chief of Operations at DSNA tell us about the "behind the scenes" of one of the biggest events of 2024 - Olympic Games in Paris. We learn about the preparations for the Olympics from the perspectives of the Airport and DSNA, about extraordinary measures in place to make the event run smoothly, how the opening ceremony and the related no-flight zone around Paris was handled and how "the mas...
In this episode, Vincent speaks with the CTO of DFS Friedrich-Wilhelm Menge. Today we will get to know Friedrich-Wilhelm's story of joining DFS, what he does to keep the employees up to date, his opinion about advantages and disadvantages of being such a large European ANSP, how far is the ATM industry today in terms of leading edge technologies, how easy it is to attract new talents to DFS, what are the ideas behind the Future Delivery Model, how DFS prepares for the future, and at the...
The guest of today's episode is Benjamin Baier - the CEO of Imtradex - provider of communication solutions for ATC and other industries from Germany. In this episode we learn more about Benjamin and the company, what is the reason of having the manufacturing process in Germany, what are the advantages of having so specialised products, what are the new features of the new ATC headset model designed for remote towers ATCOs. We also hear about the most unusual request from customers Imtradex ha...
Vincent's guest in this episode is Jannik Breum - Product Manager at Terma. In today's conversation Jannik talks about his career path and what is a typical day of a product manager. We learn about what Terma does apart from SMRs, what products does it offer in other industries and what are the benefits of operating in various industries and application areas. Jannik explains what an eSMR is, what are its main features and much more! At the end Vincent asks this season's signature question.&n...
Today's episode was recorded at the Airspace World in Geneva and Vincent's guest is the CEO of PANSA - Magdalena Jaworska. Magdalena tells her story of joining the ATM industry and re-joining the Polish ANSP, gives updates about the ANSP's current situation, what are the plans for the future as regards the Agency's products and services to be offered to the market, drone traffic development in Poland and about the direction of PANSA after the recent turbulent times. Magdalena talks about gend...
This episode opens the new season of our podcast series. Vincent's guest today is Cliona Mimnagh - the Safety Manager Terminal Services at AirNav Ireland. We hear about Cliona's career path, what are the goals of safety in ATM an how is it managed, how do colleagues with engineering and with operational backgrounds work together, how is the safety unit organised within the ANSP, how are the two sides of safety dealt with - the management of hazards and the project side i.e. safety asses...
In this podcast episode David Perez - the CEO of DataBeacon and MD of Innaxis, talks about what Data Beacon is and what are its offerings, shares his views about data analytics industry in the US and in Europe, certification of AI (Artificial Intelligence) and ML (Machine Learning) tools for ATC. We learn about DataBeacon's recent implementation of the ADS-B based solution for AFIS officers, provided in 6 airports in the UK, and what could the future bring in terms of ADS-B only, AI and ML ba...
In today's episode Vincent interviews Jouhayna AlMheiri - Senior Air Traffic Control Officer and On-The-Job Training instructor from the UAE. Jouhayna tells her story of becoming an Air Traffic Controller, what skills and abilities are useful in this job, what lifestyle and mode of work the ATCOs have, what has been her experience of being an Emirati woman doing the demanding job of an ATCO and what are her views on the developments in ATM in the next 5 and 50 years. Jouhayna also shares abou...
In this episode Vincent hosts the two guests - Stephan Wollschläger and Dietmar Weishaupt who talk about what T-Systems product has been provided to Berlin Airport, how was it possible to implement the pre-departure sequencer in only 6 months, what are the lesons learned from that process, what are their visions for the next 5 and 15 years as regards the development of A-CDM and more.
In this podcast episode Vincent meets Kate Arlouskaya - in charge of administration and marketing at ANSART, and Serge Miranovich - the CEO of the company. Firstly, the guests explain what ANSART does and what are its offerings to the market, then we hear views about the advantages of being an SME-size company in the ATM industry. The guests talk about what is special about their products and whether in-cloud / in-browser solutions are the future, or perhaps already the reality in air traffic...
In this podcast episode, Vincent Lambercy interviews Julian Sube, co-founder of Skysquitter, a company that operates an ADS-B network across Europe. Julian discusses the unique approach of Skysquitter, which owns all the receivers for their network, providing more control and higher data quality compared to crowdsourced networks. He also highlights the additional services they offer, such as live weather information and data processing. Julian emphasizes the advantages of working with smaller...
Time Based Separation or TBS is a great way to improve airport capacity. This is now in operation at Amsterdam Schiphol airpot and we discuss how this project went and dive deep in the details in this episode with Sebastiaan de Stigter, who is the TBS project manager with Dutch ANSP LVNL.
Roles are swapped in this special episode! Vincent goes from being the host to being guest, with Stojanche asking questions. We get a look back at the last seasons, rom why we do this podcast in the first place, how it all started, to what we learned doing it, recalling fun moments and discussing how it will continue in the future.
Our today's guest is John Franklin - Head of Safety Promotion at EASA. We talked about what actually is the definition of safety, how a mature safety organisation perceives and manages it, how will safety evolve along with introducing more and more technologies into ATM, what is the philosophy of safety, what is the "Summer 2023" safety campaign all about and who is it designed for, and of course, what will the next 5 and 50 years bring in terms of changes in safety.
Our today's guests are Max Bezzina - the CEO of INGENAV and Richard Landreville - the principal and founder of Betterizon Consultants Inc. We talked about the idea and the team behind the "CHarlie" project and its goals, we discussed if the AI - based tools for ATCOs will replace humans from the job, or if they will remain just as a support in the future, certification of the AI tools and their compatibility with various ATC systems, and of course, what will the next 5 and 50 years bring in t...
Our guest today is Paul Stevens, the CEO of the Mayflower College. We talked about standardization of ATC phraseology, how speaking to non-native English speakers is addressed in the training, the role of empathy in speaking with foreigners, communication tips for native English speakers, when to use plain English in ATC, the effect of stress on communication, what changes in communication between ATCOs and pilots we can expect in the future, and our signature question - what will the n...
Our today's guest is Christian Woborsky - the Product Manager OneControl at ADB Safegate. We talked about the company - how did it start, develop and what are its offerings. We discussed if the standardisation and configurability of ATC tools help reducing their cost, involving clients, in this case - ATCOs, in the process of designing and modifying the ATM software, how to deal with replacing the existing ATC tools with new ones and, as always, what will the next 5 and 50 years br...
Our guest today is Klaus Meier - the CTO of Skyguide. We talked about Virtual Centres and what is so special about them, what does location independence mean, what is the current state of play of the Virtual Centre in Switzerland, was the Covid-19 time a challenge or an opportunity for Skyguide, the role of Skyguide in the standardisation of Virtual Centres, lessons learned from the implementation process, how does Skyguide deal with recruiting new talents, closure of the Swiss airspace in Ju...
Our today's guest is Kristian Lavin - the CEO of TowerHouse Studios and an active ATCO in Estonian Air Navigation Services. Today's topic was about the ATC Simulation Game - "Flight Level" developed by TowerHouse. We talked about its features, intended users, how to get up to speed to play the game, why active ATCOs play it and at the end our signature topic - evolution of ATM industry in the next 5 and 50 years from now.