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A remote control tower for the Scandinavian mountains airport

The new facility will be presented in December

The Scandinavian Mountains airport in Dalarna on the border between Sweden and Norway is one of the first airports in the world to use remote air traffic control technology: operators are not present on site but in a building about 300 kilometers away distance. "The idea of a virtual tower has been around for a while", said R. John Hansman, professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT (Massachusetts...

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Dalarna, Sweden, 10/24/2019 14:23
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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