Geneva – Aeropath of New Zealand has won a global aviation safety award for their flight advisor tool.
Aeropath is a subsidiary of Airways New Zealand. The flight tool is an interactive web-based mapping tool that improves situational awareness and enhances safety for pilots operating at low levels in uncontrolled airspace.
Developed by Aeropath, New Zealand’s aeronautical information service, in collaboration with its customer the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF), Flight Advisor is used by the military and is open to all civilian operators across New Zealand.
The tool provides RNZAF pilots and civilian operators with an awareness of traffic and potential hazards when operating at low level, giving pilots operating in this uncontrolled airspace the information they need to keep themselves and other low level airspace users safe.
The jury of the award unanimously decided in favour of the New Zealand web-based mapping tool Flight Advisor.
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Matt Day, Aeropath’s manager aeronautical information management says Flight Advisor is the result of a significant team effort between the RNZAF and Aeropath.
“The Flight Advisor concept was developed when the RNZAF approached Aeropath to help them address the problem of better informing low level operators of hazards and making operators aware of each other when in the same area of airspace.
“Our team is extremely proud to receive this award, amongst an impressive list of shortlisted organisations. We’re thrilled that we’ve been able to create something that is so simple to use, and delivers such tangible safety benefits to New Zealand’s aviators.”
The award was from the Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation, the global voice of the air traffic management (ATM) industry. The organisation’s members support more than 90 percent of the world’s air traffic and include air navigation service providers, airspace users and operators, manufacturers and aviation industry suppliers.
Airways New Zealand is a world-leading commercial air navigation service provider, looking after key aviation infrastructure around Aotearoa and managing more than one million traffic movements a year into and around New Zealand’s 30 million square kilometres of airspace.
