Radar Contact

007 - Remote Towers - Niclas Gustavsson - SAAB Digital Air Traffic Solutions

July 20, 2021 FoxATM Season 1 Episode 7
Radar Contact
007 - Remote Towers - Niclas Gustavsson - SAAB Digital Air Traffic Solutions
Show Notes

The guest of this episode is Niclas Gustavsson - Vice President Business Development & Governmental Affairs at SAAB Digital Air Traffic Solutions. The topic today is the remote towers in Sweden and touched the following aspects:

  • developments at Swedish Mountain Airport and the new Remote Tower Centre in Stockholm
  • lessons learned from remote tower projects 
  • what could be done differently
  • differences between building an airport with a remote tower from scratch and adding a remote tower to an existing airport
  • remote towers - why now
  • the role of new technologies and the human factor in regards to remote towers 
  • how are partnerships between an ANSP and a tech company formed. New entrants to this field
  • ATM /remote towers in five years from now and in 50 years from now