Fiji Airports commissions upgraded Air Traffic Management system

Fiji Airports has upgraded its Air Traffic Management system that will pave the way for surveillance control in Fiji’s domestic airspace.

Fiji Airports Board Chairman, Geoffrey Shaw says Fiji Airports manages six million square kilometers of airspace in the Nadi Flight Information Region which covers the airspace of Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Fiji, Tuvalu and Kiribati.

Shaw says they will now provide enhanced airspace efficiency and safety to their airspace users.

He adds this modernises their Air Traffic Management system and provides air traffic controllers with the latest technology including electronic flight strips, advanced flight and surveillance data processing and training capabilities.

The new system integrates Oceanic, Terminal Area and Tower Control capabilities and includes a new simulator to train air traffic controllers in an ADS-B Surveillance control environment.

The new Aurora system also delivers a complete technical refresh of the system with new Linux-based hardware and high-resolution displays for controllers at the Nadi Air Traffic Management Centre and Nadi and Nausori Towers.