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The European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation, commonly known as Eurocontrol (stylised EUROCONTROL), is an international organisation working to achieve safe and seamless air traffic management across Europe. Founded in 1963, Eurocontrol currently has 42 member states with headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.
On 25 February 1999, Alitalia Flight 1553, a Dornier 328, operated by Minerva Airlines, operated a flight from Cagliari-Elmas Airport to Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport. On landing on runway 29, the aircraft overshot the end of the runway and crashed into the sea, due to excessive tailwind and late touchdown.
The Single European Sky (SES) is a European Commission initiative that seeks to reform the European air traffic management system through a series of actions carried out in four different levels (institutional, operational, technological and control and supervision) with the aim of satisfying the needs of the European airspace in terms of capacity, safety, efficiency and environmental impact.
11am Britain’s biggest budget airline, easyJet, gets a call from Eurocontrol saying flight movements in the UK would be limited to 60 per hour – rather than the usual 800. This represents a 92 ...
EUROCONTROL Aeronautical Information Management (AIM). Archived from the original on 2 April 2019; Eurocontrol AIRAC calendar until 2022 "ICAO Aeronautical Information Services Manual (DOC 8126; AN/872; 6th Edition; 2003) Chapter 2. Provision of raw data 2.6 Aeronautical information regulation and control (AIRAC)" (PDF). ICAO.
Under its SESAR project, Eurocontrol is optimizing the slack of the separation, reducing it from 3 to 2.5 nmi (5.6 to 4.6 km): a simulation increased throughput by up to 14% at Zurich's Runway 14, which cannot have any high-speed exit, inducing a longer runway occupancy.
Long title: An Act to make provision in connection with the international convention relating to co-operation for the safety of air navigation, known as the Eurocontrol Convention; to provide for the recovery of charges for services provided for aircraft; to authorize the use of certain records as evidence in proceedings for the recovery of such charges or proceedings under the Air Navigation ...
An Australian sculptor has created a model of what the human body would have to look like to survive a car crash-- and it's the stuff of nightmares. The artist, Melbourne-based Patricia Piccinini ...