Eurocontrol has launched a web-based training tool aimed at improving the awareness of the environmental effects of aviation.
The Brussels-based organisation believes that the need for an across-the-board approach to reducing aviation pollution is necessary, including air traffic management (ATM), which it believes is one of the most significant potential sources of emissions reduction. Eurocontrol’s director for safety, airspace, airports and information services, George Paulson, says the tool will “give operational staff indications of the actions they can take to help reduce the impact of aviation on the environment”.
Eurocontrol is responsible for developing the Single European Sky, which will eventually see the European ATM system run on the basis of efficient route planning using functional airspace blocks.
Source: Flight International
