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A9C Capital Bahrain hosts key aviation workshop

MANAMA, March 14, 2017

A9C Capital WLL Bahrain and DLR GfR, Germany a subsidiary of the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) and certified Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP) have organized a high level workshop at the World ATM Congress 2017 in Madrid to discuss “GBAS CAT III Landings in Europe: Challenges and Solutions”.

The workshop which was held under the patronage of Peter Tempel, the German Ambassador to Spain, saw major stakeholders from more than 20 countries, including Bahrain and the UAE, attending the event.

For the first time a truly open discussion on satellite-based Augmentation Systems (SBAS) and ground-based Augmentation Systems (GBAS) which augment Global Satellite Navigation Systems` (GNSS) capabilities (e.g. GPS, Galileo, Glonass) for Air Traffic Navigation took place between airlines, airports, ATM organizations, air traffic regulators, manufacturer and scientific organizations.

The participants pointed out that SBAS (e.g. Waas, Egnos) was incapable of receiving a certification for CAT III low visibility precision landings and that GBAS was the only solution to the problem.

They urged the European GNSS Agency (GSA) to take a leading role in driving the GBAS CAT III capabilities to make Galileo applications truly end to end solutions for the aviation industry.

“Given the fact that GBAS operation would increase the level of safety and will allow different precision landing procedures e.g. curved or steep approaches which spare noise pollution for hundred of thousand of immediate neighbours at the airports and will avoid millions of tons of green house gases the current tactical maneuvering of some of the stakeholders isn’t acceptable any longer,” remarked Prof Dr Bernd J. Hoefer the chairman and CEO of A9C Capital, Bahrain and former vice chairman of DLR.

A9C Capital Bahrain is one of the leading technology investment and consulting companies in the Middle East and supports the GCC countries to industrialise and to diversify their economies and ultimately becoming knowledge-based economies.-TradeArabia News Service




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