Air Traffic Management

In this post I would like to introduce you to a website I have discovered recently.

This website is the OBSA: The Observatory of Sustainability in Aviation: www.obsa.org

This observatory is  a reference point on the analysis of the sustainability of the triple bottom line: environment, social and economic factors on the aviation sector.

Of the triple bottom line, environment seems to be the one winning most shares, but to its merit, finally, I found a one spot shop where I can find answers to some of the questions I asked in previous posts about the environment and the future of aviation.

One very interesting theme for me is the information given about bio fuels. Now I can read and dig further into where the industry is heading towards in this area.  Well done to OBSA!

As a word of improvement, I notice that the English site contain unfortunately only a fragment of  its Spanish equivalent. From my knowledge, OBSA seems to be on the leading edge of information about sustainability in aviation in Europe, if not world-wide. A more complete English site could give further coverage to this valuable work.

And now I am going to read some more articles through OBSA and most probably I will update some of my previous posts related with environment…

(OBSA is an independent project, initiative of the Spanish State company SENASA.)

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A new edition of my favourite ATC related magazine: Hindsight from Eurocontrol, is out now.

This edition focuses on fatigue in air traffic control. The articles presented range from how fatigue can affect performance to practical hints on how to use caffeine (and how not to abuse it!) to combat fatigue.

The magazine blends the theoretical with the practical in a perfect way. It is an easy but useful read in these hot (in some places at least) summer months, not to just read at work, but also to take to the beach or home and read before a sweet summer siesta

Click here to download a free copy of  Hindsight on fatigue

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