World ATM Congress Recognises Outstanding Achievement in Aviation, Announces Maverick Awards Finalists

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MADRID, Feb. 27, 2020 /PRNewswire=KYDO JBN/ --

ATCA (the Air Traffic Control Association (https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2732143-1&h=2996339564&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.atca.org%2F&a=Air+Traffic+Control+Association )) and CANSO (the Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation (https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2732143-1&h=1695452190&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.canso.org%2F&a=Civil+Air+Navigation+Services+Organisation )) are honoured to announce the finalists for the inaugural Maverick Awards

presented by World ATM Congress (https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2732143-1&h=776672601&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldatmcongress.org%2Fmaverick-awards&a=Maverick+Awards+presented+by+World+ATM+Congress ).

The Awards recognise outstanding achievements in innovation, collaboration,

and sustainability in air traffic management (ATM).  

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"As the world's largest ATM exposition, World ATM Congress is the perfect venue

to acknowledge and celebrate the many advancements our community has made this

past year," said ATCA President and CEO Peter F. Dumont. "These awards represent

three of our industry's most important pillars: collaboration, innovation,

and sustainability--all in the name of aviation safety."

In this first year, over 100 nominations were received, which were narrowed

down to nine finalists, three in each award category.

The Collaboration Award recognises the importance of effective relationships

and partnerships within/across disciplines and sectors to achieve a shared goal.

The finalists for the Collaboration Award are (in alphabetical order):

    --  ASECNA for Unifying African Skies with space-based Automatic Dependent

        Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) and other innovative technologies across

        all six Flight Information Regions (FIRs).

    --  A consortium of Heathrow Airport Limited, NATS, Harris Orthogon, and

        EUROCONTROL for the introduction of Target Times of Arrivals at

        Heathrow Airport through SESAR project PJ24.

    --  NATS, NAV CANADA, and Aireon LLC for the innovative development and

        deployment of the world's first global, real-time space-based ADS-B service.

The Innovation Award recognises new ideas, technologies, and concepts that

challenge current ATM norms with the potential to significantly advance performance,

operations, or capabilities.

The finalists for the Innovation Award are:

    --  Austro Control for its project "Plate Lines -- A Method to Accelerate

        Wake Vortex Decay During Final Approach," infrastructure that

        accelerates the decay of wake vortices on the ground proximity by about

        30 percent, making wake encounters less likely.

    --  NASA for its successful, simultaneous flight of multiple small unmanned

        aircraft systems (UAS) in a complex urban environment using the UAS

        Traffic Management (UTM) system.  

    --  Saab Digital Air Traffic Solutions and Scandinavian Mountains Airport

        for building a new innovative airport equipped with remote and digital

        tower services from a remote tower centre.

The Sustainability Award recognises leaders, initiatives, and organisations working

towards reducing aviation's impact on the environment and making significant

contributions to improving the environmental footprint of aviation through ATM.

The finalists for the Sustainability Award are:

    --  ENAIRE for the design and development of a monitoring mechanism which

        saved, through ATC direct clearance, about 7 million nautical miles for

        flights managed in Spanish airspace, preventing the emission of 243,000

        CO2 tons into the atmosphere.

    --  HungaroControl, BULATSA, and ROMATSA for the SEE FRA / SEEN FRA project

        (South East Europe Free Route Airspace), allowing operators to fly on

        optimised profiles across FIR boundaries of Bulgaria, Hungary, and

        Romania, which has the potential to save up to 10000 nautical miles,

        conserving 80 tons of fuel and 250 tons of CO2 emissions daily.

    --  NAV CANADA for becoming the first ANSP in the world to implement ICAO's

        new standard: Established on Required Navigation Performance Authorisation

        Required (RNP AR) and showing a reduction of over 4.1 million kgs of CO2 emissions.

"To receive over 100 nominations for our inaugural awards was an incredible

achievement and is an indicator of the significant advances we're making

together as an ATM industry," said CANSO Director General Simon Hocquard.

"The quality of the nominations was incredibly high - my congratulations to all

those that made the shortlist. They have set the bar high for future years!"

A special thank you to our renowned panel of judges: Eammon Brennan, Director

General, EUROCONTROL; Teri Bristol, Chief Operating Officer, FAA Air Traffic

Organization (ATO); Peter F. Dumont, President and CEO, ATCA; Simon Hocquard,

Director General, CANSO; Capt. Gilbert Kibe, Director General, Kenya Civil Aviation

Authority; Hon. Donna Mclean, Founder and Owner, Donna McLean Associates, LLC.

The winner of each category will be announced at World ATM Congress 2020 in

Madrid, Spain during the Maverick Awards Ceremony, held at 15:00 -- 16:00

Tuesday, 10 March, in the Wing ATM Theatre. The Awards ceremony will be hosted

by ATCA's President and CEO Peter F. Dumont and CANSO's Director General Simon

Hocquard. Registration for the event is free. To learn more and register, visit

www.worldatmcongress.org.

For more information, contact Abigail Glenn-Chase (abigail.glenn-chase@atca.org ).

SOURCE: World ATM Congress