Adrian is Auckland bureau chief for Aviation Week, based in New Zealand. He covers commercial aviation in the Asia-Pacific region.
Adrian was previously based in Aviation Week’s Washington office for nine years, writing for a range of the group’s publications and covering many aspects of the commercial aviation industry. He has won Australasian and international awards for his aviation writing.
Prior to joining Aviation Week in 2002, Adrian covered aviation industry and policy issues for two other publishing companies in Washington. He has also worked for newspapers in Texas and New Zealand, covering a wide range of topics. Adrian graduated from Auckland University with a degree in history and English in 1992.
Nav Canada is launching a range of air traffic control products based on its own operating systems, the latest example of an emerging trend that sees air navigation service providers (ANSPs) entering the marketplace with technology they have developed. The company has already supplied versions of its own systems to some ANSPs, but is now offering them widely to the ATC industry. An integrated range of products and systems is being launched at the ATC Global conference this week in Amsterdam.
U.K. air traffic control organization NATS is teaming with Spanish multinational corporation Ferrovial to bid for contracts to run Spanish ATC services. The partnership for the bid will be called FerroNATS. NATS stresses it has 10 years' experience operating in a liberalized ATC market as a public-private company and has been profitable for the past six years. Ferrovial says it has worked extensively with Spanish ATC agency AENA. Ferrovial has previously shown an appetite for investment in aviation, and in 2006 led the successful bid to operate U.K.
The European Commission has announced that the new satellite-based navigation system has been approved for aviation, and can be used by European nations to publish airport approaches. The European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) complements and improves the accuracy of GPS, and adds the important element of precise vertical positioning. It is interoperable with satellite-based augmentation systems in the U.S. and Japan.
