Trust Your Dolly Grip!

Recently I attended a seminar on business-coaching where István Szabó, the Hungarian director awarded the Academy Prize for his film ”Mephisto”, told us a story dating back to his early years in the business. It happened during the shooting of a film about a young couple in the 1960-s’ Budapest. The dramatic effect of one… Continue reading Trust Your Dolly Grip!

Same time, same place, same level… 8.

View from the tower There can be little doubt that an airport looks its best from the control tower. True, pilots may lay claim to this, insisting that nothing equals the view from the front office window of an airplane in the final stages of its approach, but for earthbound controllers, the tower is absolute… Continue reading Same time, same place, same level… 8.

Anniversary – IFPS first flight plan treated in live operations

15 year anniversary on 27 April 2010. It was a rather cool and misty April night in 1995 when I found myself driving to EUROCONTROL at an hour normally reserved for rest and retrospection. The time was just past 9 p.m. when the duty supervisor of the Integrated Initial Flight Plan Processing System (IFPS) let… Continue reading Anniversary – IFPS first flight plan treated in live operations

SWIM, the external enabler – now read the book!

Towards the end of the SESAR definition phase the airspace users in Europe presented a paper, arguing that System Wide Information Management (SWIM) was in fact external to air traffic management and as such, its implementation could and should happen at its own rate matched to the need to ensure mximised, early benefits. The reasoning behind… Continue reading SWIM, the external enabler – now read the book!

Questionable ads banished

It looked like a good idea… a banner that would bring context sensitive ads as visitors browsed Roger-Wilco. We tried it and it was a huge disappointment. Silly on-line games (albeit promoted with pretty girls) and dating-sites were the only stuff we got on the main blog level, clearly not the sort of thing we… Continue reading Questionable ads banished

Interesting people, unusual flight plans…

Jozsef Torocsik – the first Hungarian at EUROCONTROL What were you dreaming of becoming when you were a kid? I could boast and say that I have always wanted to be an air traffic controller… but it would be a lie. I remember having admired airplanes and airports from around age 6 but my early… Continue reading Interesting people, unusual flight plans…

Against the gods. The remarkable story of risk.

By Peter L. Bernstein Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN – 0-471-29563-9 This book is a unique exploration of the role of risk in society. The author argues that the notion of bringing risk under control is one of the central ideas that distinguish modern times from the distant past. This is a chronicle… Continue reading Against the gods. The remarkable story of risk.

System Wide Information Management (SWIM) – the pretty picture

System Wide Information Management (SWIM) is the cornerstone of the future air traffic management system. While the underlying concept of SWIM is not overly complicated, it does require a shift in thinking something that tends to result in different interpretations, some closer to the real thing than others. In the following we present an understanding… Continue reading System Wide Information Management (SWIM) – the pretty picture

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