Roger-Wilco – 3 years young

Exactly three years ago, on 23 July 2009, a new blog hit the internet under the name Roger-Wilco. There were many aviation related blogs there already, but none of them were dedicated to an air traffic management perspective on the world.
The concept of Roger-Wilco has always been to help people navigate the complicated world of air traffic management as we were aware that even experts closely involved with one or the other of the ATM fields had problems with following developments in the others. Our articles in the series “Buzzwords explained” are one of the most popular among them all.
In the course of the three years we have visited several important decision makers who gave us a glimpse of their personal lives and backgrounds as well as their views on ATM developments.
What we have always considered a high priority was the timely disclosure of issues that were seen as problems in the way of achieving the aims of current air traffic management projects. Needless to say, not all people were happy when we pointed out inaccurate statements or missing (withheld…) information. But we believe that this type of reporting did help to bring issues to the limelight and increased transparency across the board.
We are especially pleased to see that our readership is growing apace and now includes people from many, many countries of the world. An interesting detail that visits from various Universities peak at about the time students tend to search for material for their theses… we have been discovered, that is for sure.
Roger-Wilco will enter its fourth year with the aims staying basically the same. Look beyond the official communiqués, read between the lines, discuss technologies and their implication, be a source of hard to get information for all our readers, everywhere in the world.
We thank you all for visiting, come back often.