Latest Air traffic control Podcast Episodes
Beyond the Beaches: The amazing aviation innovations behind D-Day
NATS Altitude - May 31, 2024 16:00 - 45 minutesThe 6th June 2024 will mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day – the Allied invasion of Western Europe during the Second World War and one of the most pivotal days in human history. Most people will be familiar with the sight of the landings in Normandy, but fewer know the story beyond the beaches. ...
Season 4 - 004 - Headsets in ATC - Benjamin Baier - Imtradex
Radar Contact - May 21, 2024 05:00 - 38 minutesThe guest of today's episode is Benjamin Baier - the CEO of Imtradex - provider of communication solutions for ATC and other industries from Germany. In this episode we learn more about Benjamin and the company, what is the reason of having the manufacturing process in Germany, what are the adva...
Serving from the skies - London's amazing emergency services pilots
NATS Altitude - April 24, 2024 16:00 - 47 minutesWith such unique requirements, one of the most essential and complex users of our skies are the emergency services. In this month’s Altitude, we’re joined by pilots Captain Andrew Brandt from the National Police Air Service and Captain David Rolfe from London Air Ambulance Service to learn abo...
Season 4 - 003 - On Surface Movement Radars (SMRs) - Jannik Breum - Terma
Radar Contact - April 24, 2024 13:00 - 25 minutesVincent's guest in this episode is Jannik Breum - Product Manager at Terma. In today's conversation Jannik talks about his career path and what is a typical day of a product manager. We learn about what Terma does apart from SMRs, what products does it offer in other industries and what are the...
#72 - Around Australia in a Searey with David and Cathy
On the Step with thatmallardguy - March 31, 2024 03:45 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 82 ratingsResponding to an advert on Facebook, Cathy Babis is joining David Geers on a journey around Australia in his Searey amphibian, taking around 60 days with many incredible stops along the way! Follow their journey with the link below! https://www.100asa.com.au Buy my kids book Marty the Mallard ...
Season 4 - 002 - Updates from the Polish ANSP - Magdalena Jaworska - PANSA
Radar Contact - March 26, 2024 12:00 - 21 minutesToday's episode was recorded at the Airspace World in Geneva and Vincent's guest is the CEO of PANSA - Magdalena Jaworska. Magdalena tells her story of joining the ATM industry and re-joining the Polish ANSP, gives updates about the ANSP's current situation, what are the plans for the future as ...
30 - Shaping our future skies
NATS Altitude - March 15, 2024 12:00 - 50 minutesFrom delivering airspace modernisation and integrating drones through to understanding the impact of AI and the ever pressing need to address aviation’s climate impact, the list of priorities for leaders in air traffic management is a long and complex one. Our industry is in the midst of a per...
29 - Winter Operations: Finnish Snow-how
NATS Altitude - March 01, 2024 16:00 - 45 minutesIce, snow, howling winds and temperatures as low as minus 30.C are hardly ideal conditions to be running an international airport, but that’s the reality for the team at Rovaniemi, Finland’s second busiest airport. In beautiful Lapland, sitting on the edge of the Arctic Circle, the near consta...
Season 4 - 001 - Safety management in ATM - Cliona Mimnagh - AirNav Ireland
Radar Contact - February 27, 2024 13:00 - 27 minutesThis episode opens the new season of our podcast series. Vincent's guest today is Cliona Mimnagh - the Safety Manager Terminal Services at AirNav Ireland. We hear about Cliona's career path, what are the goals of safety in ATM an how is it managed, how do colleagues with engineering and with op...
28 - The Human Factor
NATS Altitude - January 25, 2024 10:00 - 57 minutesHuman Factors is the understanding of ‘the human in the loop’. It’s about how people behave and interact both with technology and each other, and it’s something that has become fundamental to safety across aviation and a host of other industries. But what really is Human Factors? Where did it c...
27 - Concorde: 20 years on
NATS Altitude - November 30, 2023 14:00 - 49 minutesFor more than 25 years, Concorde was the world's only successful supersonic airliner. Flying faster than the rotation of the earth, it could cross the Atlantic in just two and a half hours, with passengers arriving at JFK before they left Heathrow. Now, 20 years after its final ever flight from...
Season 3 - 020 - AI applications in ATM - David Perez - DataBeacon & Innaxis
Radar Contact - November 14, 2023 06:00 - 36 minutesIn this podcast episode David Perez - the CEO of DataBeacon and MD of Innaxis, talks about what Data Beacon is and what are its offerings, shares his views about data analytics industry in the US and in Europe, certification of AI (Artificial Intelligence) and ML (Machine Learning) tools for ATC...
26 - Artificial Intelligence and Aviation
NATS Altitude - November 09, 2023 17:00 - 51 minutesCan we expect Artificial Intelligence – heralded by just about everyone as the next great technology leap forward - to have a role in air traffic management? But how can we look beyond the hype and understand what this technology could really do for aviation? When is it right for AI to play a ...
Season 3 - 019 - Perspective of the female Emirati ATCO - Jouhayna AlMheiri - GCAA
Radar Contact - October 31, 2023 07:00 - 38 minutesIn today's episode Vincent interviews Jouhayna AlMheiri - Senior Air Traffic Control Officer and On-The-Job Training instructor from the UAE. Jouhayna tells her story of becoming an Air Traffic Controller, what skills and abilities are useful in this job, what lifestyle and mode of work the ATCO...
Season 3 - 018 - A-CDM at Berlin Airport - Stephan Wollschläger - Head of Processes & Systems Operations at BER Brandenburg Airport & Dietmar Weishaupt - Senior Project Manager at T-Systems
Radar Contact - October 17, 2023 06:00 - 39 minutesIn this episode Vincent hosts the two guests - Stephan Wollschläger and Dietmar Weishaupt who talk about what T-Systems product has been provided to Berlin Airport, how was it possible to implement the pre-departure sequencer in only 6 months, what are the lesons learned from that process, what...
Season 3 - 017 - What about smaller companies in ATM? - Kate Arlouskaya & Serge Miranovich - ANSART
Radar Contact - October 03, 2023 05:00 - 27 minutesIn this podcast episode Vincent meets Kate Arlouskaya - in charge of administration and marketing at ANSART, and Serge Miranovich - the CEO of the company. Firstly, the guests explain what ANSART does and what are its offerings to the market, then we hear views about the advantages of being an S...
#71 - Seabee Owner and Former Fighter Pilot Jim Whalley
On the Step with thatmallardguy - September 04, 2023 14:40 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 82 ratingsLast year in the month of April, I embarked on what would end up being one of the most exciting weeks of my aviation career, training 7 highly experienced pilots how to fly the floating hull aircraft on a 75-year-old Republic Seebee. I had always dreamt of flying the seebee, but never before had...
Season 3 - 016 - ADS-B network - Julian Sube - skysquitter
Radar Contact - August 15, 2023 05:00 - 32 minutesIn this podcast episode, Vincent Lambercy interviews Julian Sube, co-founder of Skysquitter, a company that operates an ADS-B network across Europe. Julian discusses the unique approach of Skysquitter, which owns all the receivers for their network, providing more control and higher data quality...
Season 3 - 015 - Time Based Separation at Amsterdam - Sebastiaan de Stigter - LVNL
Radar Contact - August 01, 2023 06:00 - 39 minutesTime Based Separation or TBS is a great way to improve airport capacity. This is now in operation at Amsterdam Schiphol airpot and we discuss how this project went and dive deep in the details in this episode with Sebastiaan de Stigter, who is the TBS project manager with Dutch ANSP LVNL.
25 - Airspace Modernisation: Transforming the Skies
NATS Altitude - July 27, 2023 10:00 - 48 minutesAirspace – our invisible motorways in the sky – is the underpinning of the entire aviation industry. Vital to the safe operation of tens of thousands of flights every single day, it is an infrastructure relied on 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, to enhance the UK’s global connections. But it is ...
Season 3 - 014 - Radar Contact, behind the scenes - Vincent Lambercy - FoxATM
Radar Contact - July 18, 2023 06:00 - 39 minutesRoles are swapped in this special episode! Vincent goes from being the host to being guest, with Stojanche asking questions. We get a look back at the last seasons, rom why we do this podcast in the first place, how it all started, to what we learned doing it, recalling fun moments and discussin...
Season 3 - 013 - Safety in ATM - John Franklin - EASA
Radar Contact - July 04, 2023 05:00 - 28 minutesOur today's guest is John Franklin - Head of Safety Promotion at EASA. We talked about what actually is the definition of safety, how a mature safety organisation perceives and manages it, how will safety evolve along with introducing more and more technologies into ATM, what is the philosophy o...
24 - Marking the 75th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift
NATS Altitude - June 26, 2023 05:00 - 31 minutesThe Berlin Airlift was a significant episode in the beginnings of the Cold War, with American, British, and French aircrews flying hundreds of daily cargo flights to deliver essential supplies into a West Berlin blockaded by the Soviet Union. Despite impossible odds, Berlin was sustained by air...
Season 3 - 012 - CHarlie - AI powered support to decision making in ATC - Max Bezzina - INGENAV & Richard Landreville - Betterizon Consultants
Radar Contact - June 20, 2023 05:00 - 34 minutesOur today's guests are Max Bezzina - the CEO of INGENAV and Richard Landreville - the principal and founder of Betterizon Consultants Inc. We talked about the idea and the team behind the "CHarlie" project and its goals, we discussed if the AI - based tools for ATCOs will replace humans from the...
#70 - 23yo Aussie Flying Floats in Alaska, Ollie O'Halloran
On the Step with thatmallardguy - June 13, 2023 14:40 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 82 ratingsEvery seaplane pilot has dreamt of doing this at one stage, packing their suitcase, requesting an upgrade to business but getting shafted in economy for 14 hours, ok maybe not that part, but all seaplane pilots look at flying in Alaska as one of the pinnacles in the industry, and Aussie pilot Ol...
Season 3 - 011 - Communication in ATC - Paul Stevens - Mayflower College
Radar Contact - June 06, 2023 05:00 - 33 minutesOur guest today is Paul Stevens, the CEO of the Mayflower College. We talked about standardization of ATC phraseology, how speaking to non-native English speakers is addressed in the training, the role of empathy in speaking with foreigners, communication tips for native English speakers, when ...
#69 - John Ramsden and Mallard's, Twin Otters, Buccaneers and the rest!
On the Step with thatmallardguy - May 31, 2023 14:40 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 82 ratingsA self-confessed lucky bugger who answered a phone call back in the early 80’s that changed the direction of his career forever, John Ramsden took that opportunity and has flown seaplanes around the world including both the radial and turbine mallard, the twin otter and continues flying today in...
Season 3 - 010 - Tools for Air Traffic Control - Christian Woborsky - ADB Safegate
Radar Contact - May 23, 2023 05:00 - 35 minutesOur today's guest is Christian Woborsky - the Product Manager OneControl at ADB Safegate. We talked about the company - how did it start, develop and what are its offerings. We discussed if the standardisation and configurability of ATC tools help reducing their cost, involving clients, in this...
23 - Operation Golden Orb: Planning the King's Coronation Flypast
NATS Altitude - May 11, 2023 16:00 - 47 minutesWhile the weather may have played its part, Saturday 6 May saw a wonderful flypast over central London to mark the coronation of King Charles III. But what does it really take to organise such a spectacle in what is some of the world’s busiest airspace and why does the weather have such an impac...
Season 3 - 009 - Virtual Centres - Klaus Meier - Skyguide
Radar Contact - May 09, 2023 06:00 - 35 minutesOur guest today is Klaus Meier - the CTO of Skyguide. We talked about Virtual Centres and what is so special about them, what does location independence mean, what is the current state of play of the Virtual Centre in Switzerland, was the Covid-19 time a challenge or an opportunity for Skyguide,...