Progress Slow but Encouraging

Progress toward enabling manned and unmanned aircraft to share common airspace slow but encouraging

March 21, 2012

Posted by John Keller

MUNICH, Germany, 21 March 2012. Transforming the world’s air traffic control (ATC) systems to accommodate commercial and military aircraft, as well as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is proceeding, but is proving to be difficult, says the military representative to the European air traffic management (ATM) authority EUROCONTROL.

Progress to integrating manned and unmanned aircraft in shared airspace has been slow, and predictions about when manned and unmanned aircraft integration may occur have been unreliable, says Brig Gen. Hans-Georg Schmidt, vice commander of the 1st German Air Division, and the elected chairman of the Military Air Traffic Management Board of EUROCONTROL.

Schmidt made his comments today at the Avionics Europe 2012 conference and trade show in Munich, Germany, sponsored by Avionics Intelligence and PennWell.

http://www.avionics-intelligence.com/articles/2012/03/progress-toward-enabling-manned-and-unmanned-aircraft-to-share-common-airspace-slow-but-encouraging.html

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