Automation is expected to make air traffic controllers’ jobs a bit easier. But instead it could add more work and lead to more mistakes being made.
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AI agents can play an important role in coping with the rise in air traffic – but only if trust in their capabilities is established first.
Allowing people to fly drones beyond their line of sight could greatly expand commercial applications.
The FAA is expanding its intense air traffic controller training to universities as part of an effort to alleviate a shortage of about 3,000 controllers.
An air traffic safety expert explains why humans will remain central to managing the nation’s airports and airspace even as AI promises to improve air traffic control.
The chaos caused over the August bank holiday may well have been preventable.
Passengers are often aware that they have legal rights around travel disruption but are not confident about what exactly these rights are.
Drones are coming to our cities – but what do people really think about them, and how can they have a sustainable future? New research provides some answers.
The FAA’s NextGen system should bring safety and efficiency to American air travel, but its users need to understand it clearly.
Flying is known to be the safest mode of transport, but many accidents could be avoided with better communication.
Once everyone gets a taste for flying their own drone the skies will be chaos – we need to draw up rules, and enforce them, now.
Software is now too critical to how the world works, so we need to enforce ways to ensure it’s better.
When military aircraft fly invisible to civilian flights it could represent a disaster waiting to happen.
While the full picture has yet to emerge, it appears that the reason for the loss of Air Asia flight QZ8501 is different from the losses of MH370 and MH17 earlier this year. MH17 was clearly a man-made…
The recent computer systems failure at the National Air Traffic Services’ en-route control centre (known as NERC) at Swanwick in Hampshire led to an airspace slowdown over England and Wales, delaying or…
A major change is coming to our skies. From next March, pilots will be able to determine their own routes and plan to fly direct from point to point. Currently, flights must plan to follow explicitly defined…
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