Sector: Aviation
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CHIRP appoints first programme manager in Advanced Air Mobility
CHIRP is pleased to announce the appointment of William (Bill) Dean as their new Advanced Air Mobility Programme Manager. Bill, a former military pilot who specialised in flight test, served with the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm for 23 years, firstly as a helicopter pilot and then for most of his career flying the Sea…
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Controller Pilot Data Link Communications (CPDLC) growing pains
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This Edition’s ILAHFFT entries are taken from our US NASA ASRS[1] sister organisation’s CALLBACK publication Issue 537(October 2024) that highlights some misunderstandings, expectation bias, complacency and problems with overly complex message formats from CPDLC. CPDLC is a great tool, but crews need to use it with care to ensure that the entire message is understood, and controllers need to…