The gateway to the Midlands, Birmingham Airport handles around 13 million passengers per annum and is the UK’s seventh largest airport. To help manage the hundred thousand flights that serve the airport every year, the airport has implemented a new flight data display system within its Air Traffic Control Tower.
Electronic Flight Progress Strips (EFPS) have replaced the old paper-based system that Air Traffic Controllers used to monitor and track the progress for each flight operating in and out of the airport.
Co-financed by the European Union – Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (INEA), the main benefits of EFPS include safety nets to assist controllers in detecting potential conflicts between aircraft and vehicles and the reduction of verbal coordination required between controllers, and enhanced information sharing with other Birmingham Airport stakeholders. The system also benefits from the implementation of a new Advanced Surface Movement Guidance Control System (ASMGCS) using new Ground Surface Radara nd Multilateration Data.
“Airport and European Investment in the latest Air Traffic Control systems and technologies demonstrate the ambition to develop the wider Air Traffic Management network to facilitate efficiencies and growing demand across Europe, and ensures that Birmingham Airport is well positioned to accommodate future demand.”
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