How can military and civil airspaces be better coordinated to keep flights over Europe safer? To find this out, Euronews visited a military base in the Netherlands, a country whose airspace is one of the more dense and complex in the world.
The station shares its data with, and gets access to, civil aircraft tracks and flight plans over Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg and also parts of Germany. The fully automated system eases up communications between civil and military air traffic controllers.
Experts at the Maastricht Upper Area Control Centre developed the automation system, that is shared by different service providers.
A closer understanding between civil and military controllers that is said to increase safety and efficiency on European skies.
Technical challenges were huge.
The project has been expanded to a civil airspace a thousand kilometers away from the Netherlands.
If everything goes to plan, Slovenian controllers say the system could be fully implemented in Slovenia by 2021.
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