Newsletter archive

The first ON AIR! newsletter was published in 2002. Feel free to download below some of the previous issues.

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  • Spring 2010 (issue 29) - 479 KB, PDF format
    • Modelling ATM performance: pilot study shows influences
    • APV approaches at Mielec: safety assessment under way
    • Improving operational resilience at Heathrow: focus on scheduling
    • Voice over IP: not just web-based phone calls
  • Autumn 2009 (issue 28) - 371 KB, PDF format
    • Fidelity goes live! Helios delivers Galileo timing service
    • Preparing for another quinquennium! Helios helps ERG with regulatory reviews
    • Military ATM: procuring the next generation system
    • Flight trials for new surveillance system: Helios manages WAM validation
  • Summer 2009 (issue 27) - 349 KB, PDF format
    • Queen's Award special - Continuing excellence in expanding fields
    • Maritime data exchange
    • Changing platforms?
  • Spring 2009 (issue 26) - 230 KB, PDF format
    • ATM and Airports: understanding technology impacts
    • Aeronautical Information: the switch from regulation to implementation 
    • The price of spectrum: assessing the impact of Ofcom's proposals
    • SatNav Integrity: test driving the options
  • Winter 2008 (issue 25) - 138 KB, PDF format
    • Galileo: establishing the UK's position
    • Another ACE!: cost-effectiveness benchmarking
    • Aeronautical comms in Nigeria: upgrading the satcom backbone
    • Implementing WAM in South Africa: ensuring safe services in Cape Town
  • Summer 2008 (issue 24) - 171 KB, PDF format
    • Spotlight on spectrum: the pressure is on
    • Surveillance technologies: why everyone's looking at WAM
    • Modernising surveillance in Nepal: ADS-B, WAM or both?
    • ATM modernisation: a performance based future
  • Winter/Spring 2008 (Issue 23)
    • e-Navigation: avoiding collisions at sea
    • Airport safety and access: the benefits of a new approach
    • ATC Global 2008: Helios & partners offer FREE workshop
    • Future communications: crossroads to convergence
  • Autumn 2007 (Issue 22)
    • Comms systems for 2020+: assessing performance for ATC
    • Changing charges: where do en-route services begin?
    • Focus on fragmentation: ATM Agenda conference (27-28 November 2007)
    • Bye bye Bagshot: Helios moves to Farnborough
    • ALL CLEAR?: the perils of communication breakdown 
  • Summer 2007 (Issue 21)
    • ATM system safety: software success
    • IP for aviation: new solutions for 2020+
    • Beaming buoys: new RF technology assessed
    • Safety nets for ATC: spotlight on STCA and ACAS
  • Winter/Spring 2007 (Issue 20)
    • SES: progress on Implementing Rules
    • Mike Fairbanks joins Helios
    • ATM R&D: mobilising the UK community
    • Satcoms and LBS: less is more
  • Autumn 2006 (Issue 19)
    • Where to put ground stations?:new software tool delivered
    • After accession: focus on Zilina
    • CEATS update: advanced military CONOPS
    • Aviation and climate change: Scientific Adviser on board
  • Spring 2006 (Issue 18)
    • Solar Alliance becomes Helios Economics and Policy Services
    • Strategy development: Franco Swiss have FAB vision
    • Communications boost: Tony Whyman joins the team
    • Investigating ALIVE: a new disaster alerting system