Global Airspace Radar

In today's episode Kasia Żmudzińska meets two guests from Airways International : Philipp Zeitel , Training Quality Manager and Jonny Cooke , Head of Products.  A 95% success rate in Air Traffic Control (ATCO) training in New Zealand, was an inspiration for recording this episode. It is a really high number and it raises the question: what is behind such outstanding result? Jonny and Philipp...

Günter Graf, Vice President New Business Development & Innovation, Frequentis and Ralf Irmer, Head of Vodafone Tech Innovation Centre, Dresden joined Claudia Bacco, Global Airspace Radar Editor-in-chief to discuss the role of 5G and drones can play in enhancing public safety.  The two companies have already been working together for quite a while across public safety topics and the use of Miss...

Alex Bristol and Peter Merz are Vincent Lambercy 's guests for this special episode about the CEO transition at Swiss ANSP skyguide. Alex will leave the company after eight years and three months as CEO and Peter will formally take-over in November 2025. Peter is the ex chief of the Swiss Air Force and used to be a user of skyguide's services. Alex reflects on his time at skyguide and ho...

Today Kasia Żmudzińska meets Karolina Frisk - Group HR Manager at Entry Point North to explore the topic of managing generational differences in the context of training and working with aviation professionals and students.   Entry Point North has a new course in its offering - Human Factors: Navigating Generational Differences . Karolina explains the findings of the student resilience study and it...

Monica Paolini, Principal, Senza Fili Consulting joined our editor-in-chief Claudia Bacco to discuss telecommunications supporting drones. A twist is mentioned in the title and the twist is the view from China. Having just returned from a trip to China, Monica shares insights from visiting China Telecom including their drone program. The twist goes further in that the telecommunications company is...

Drone sandboxes are a way to bridge the gap between regulation and reality, allowing for testing in safe ways. On this episode, Vincent Lambercy discusses with Antoine Martin . Antoine serves as "Advanced ATM Officer" with the French Directorate of General Civil Aviation and has been with the french ANSP DSNA before. We discuss the status of the current drone regulations in Europe, how t...

What are the leadership skills for a career in aviation? What is the market like for senior positions in air traffic management, what are the regional differences and requirements? Are your qualifications and skills already future-proof? Arpad Szaka l is Marita Lintener 's guest on this episode. Arpad is Partner Aviation, Transportation and Infrastructure at CORMIS PARTNERS SEARCH & INTER...

How does EUROCONTROL help stakeholders making aviation more sustainable? How is the agency in a unique position to provide guidance and advice, but also tools and measurements that ANSPs, airlines, and airports can use to become more sustainable? Marylin Bastin is Vincent Lambercy 's guest on this episode and they explore all facets of what EUROCONTROL does to make aviation more sustainable....

In this episode, Kasia Żmudzińska meets Lea Trampitsch-Vink , Human Performance Lead at Austro Control , to discuss the future of humans in aviation.  Lea tells the story of her remarkable journey — from serving as a navigator and warship commander in the New Zealand Navy, chasing pirates off the coast of Africa, to her current leadership role at Austro Control. She shares her views and ideas on h...

Karl Wannenmacher, CTO, Frequentis, speaks with our editor-in-chief Claudia Bacco about all things technology.  Starting with highlights of the current focus of his organisation - Service-oriented architecture (SoA), cybersecurity internally and throughout the entire supply chain, and artificial intelligence (AI). What about the ANSP view? ANSPs are challenged to achieve a fully automated air traf...

Our editor-in-chief, Claudia Bacco had the opportunity to speak with Youzec Kurp, Vice President, Airspace Mobility Solutions at Thales to better understand the current status of unmanned traffic management (UTM) and how we progress this topic as an industry.  The conversation touched on a great deal of material along the spectrum of UTM. Starting off with a basic question: is it an application or...

In this episode, Marita Lintener sits down with Laurent Renou , Head of EUROCONTROL Innovation Hub , to uncover the ambitious new strategy. Listen to the insights about the tangible returns organisations are seeing from hub partnerships, and the hub's pivotal role in the European SESAR programme. Laurent shares surprising insights about the skills that actually matter in aviation innovation t...

Have you heard about the Israeli Done Initiative (INDI)?  Maybe not, but now you have a chance to learn more. Claudia Bacco met with Dror Ben-David - Israel Drone Initiative (INDI) subject matter expert, Libby Bahat - Head, Aerial Infrastructure Department, Civil Aviation Authority of Israel and Ami Weisz - Chief Engineer, Manager, Aircraft Certification Department, Airworthiness Division, Civil A...

Philip Butterworth-Hayes, Editorial Director, Unmanned Airspace shares the latest findings from their Global AAM/UAM Market Map reports with Claudia Bacco. Learn more about the latest research findings in North America and Europe about these topics. Key takeaways include: - Implications of the recent USA Executive Order - Who's winning the race to market - What challenges still remain - Regul...

Intersoft Electronics was created in 1983 and started with radar quality monitoring. The company then expanded its offerings with signal processors, and continued its expansion with navigation equipment measurement and validation tools. One of its flagship products is the SkyRF drone, used to shorten ILS, VOR and PAPI calibration, developed together with skyguide. In this episode, Darren Gillam di...

In this episode, Ourania “Rania” Georgoutsakou , Managing Director of A4E European airlines association sits with Marita Lintener . They discuss the summer 2025 traffic peak and how A4E would measure “success” after the season from an industry and passenger perspective. Rania explains the airline's view on the revision of regulation EU261 on passenger rights and how they see the interdependen...

In this episode, Alain Siebert , Chief Technology and Strategy of the SESAR Joint Undertaking ( SJU ) discusses the ATM Master Plan 2025 with Marita Lintener. Alain is sharing his surprises during the campaign journey and what is actually new in 2025. Together they have deep dives into the key elements of this edition which include the implications of the security context in Europe, environmental...

On this episode, Simon Hocquard, Director General of CANSO looks back at Airspace World 2025 with Claudia Bacco. They discuss how the event was and also the future with two new Airspace World events coming, in Hong Kong and Abu Dhabi. They also discuss the future of the workforce in the industry, the CATS CONOPS, Advanced Air Mobility readiness in Asia and much more.

This episode with Dale Drake , Director ATC Sales at UFA explores their latest product: ATTranscribe, which can be used to facilitate voice transcription in the context of incident investigation. We dig deeper in how voice recognition can be used in ATC and discuss how ATTranscribe is UFA's first step out of simulation.

The team of Global Airspace Radar wraps-up Airspace World 2025 in this final episode of our special series. We look at everything what happened on the third day and give our final comments on this edition of Airspace World 2025. We discuss the best of this edition, identify new trends and share our insights on the latest topics in airspace management.

The team of Global Airspace Radar reports about Airspace World in this special episode recorded on site after the second day of the show. News, announcements, insights, trends, panels, press releases, we share it all with you. Wether you are at Airspace World and want to know the latest or if you could not make it, this special episode will sum it all up for you!

The team of Global Airspace Radar reports about Airspace World in this special episode recorded on site after the first day of the show. News, announcements, insights, trends, we share it all with you. Wether you are at Airspace World and want to know the latest or if you could not make it this year, this episode will bring you up to speed with all what happened today!

Speech recognition has been around for a long time but never achieved results deemed sufficient for making it usable for Air Traffic Control. Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence and constant increases in computing power could change it. Eric Button , founder and CEO of EnhancedRadar discusses this and how the company focuses exclusively on this topic. EnhancedRadar will be present at Airspa...

Synthetic Device Training Instructors - STDI for short - can instruct in any organisation with an EASA license. This step in liberalisation shows how market rules apply and what the results can be. Samuli Suokas of Lektor discusses with Vincent Lambercy and shares his experience as somebody who runs both a training organisation and an agency providing other organisations with STDIs. The market is...

Drones can pose a real threat to air traffic and detecting them is not an easy task. In this episode, Vincent Lambercy discusses with Stephan Kraschansky , the CEO of AARONIA 's Austrian branch. This episode covers the following topics: The reality of the threat posed by drones Different types of cases, from ignorant to malicious Sensors used to detect drones and data fusion The need for a mu...