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ARINC provides at the EUROCONTROL Experimental
Center (EEC) at Bretigny, France, for
carriers and manufacturers to test and
ATN solution validate ATN avionics. Recently, ARINC
won the contract for another test sys-
tem at Bretigny to validate avionics in a
multi-frequency environment.
ARINC and Airtel ATN have also
launched a new commercial ATN test
ARINC is working with European ANSPs meet demand for facility in Dublin, Ireland. “Airtel ATN
higher message volume and the certification of carriers’ ATN is the first commercial company in the
equipment world to provide this testing service to
aircraft operators,” stated Airtel CEO
O’Connor. “We expect the facility to be
a timely support to EEC Bretingy, with
the 2013 date.”
“ARINC has a long and successful re-
lationship with Airtel ATN,” continued
Grogan. “We are working with them at
Dublin to offer this new service to Eu-
ropean and Middle East customers who
need to comply with the EC 29/2009
rule. ARINC offers similar test and
validation services in the U.S. to avion-
ics manufacturers, ANSPs, and aircraft
operators via an ATN/VDLM2 test net-
work deployed in the US Midwest.”
* ARINC Direct, which caters for the
business aviation market, has added
s airlines and Air Navigation Ser- area, the world’s most congested air- standardized Airport Noise Abatement
Avice Providers (ANSPs) in Europe space. The European Commission has Procedures to its product suite for flight
face a mandate to equip aircraft and designated ATN data link capability planning, through an agreement with
the supporting ground infrastructure as a mandatory component on all air- FlightRisk and Whispertrack.
with Aeronautical Telecommunica- craft flying in European airspace above ARINC Direct becomes the first flight
tions Network (ATN) data link capa- flight level 285. Airlines must ensure planning service to provide this data as
bility for Air Traffic Control, ARINC ATN data link is implemented on all standard information for its operators.
says it has deployed next-generation new aircraft deliveries from January “Before today, our customers were only
technology to help meet the European 2011, and on all existing aircraft by able to find the correct noise abatement
demand for higher message volume February 2015. procedures by searching on individual
and the certification of carriers’ ATN “We are committed to EUROCON- airport websites,” says Gary Gamba-
equipment. TROL’s Link2000+ program to comply rani, Director, ARINC Direct. “The air-
Together with its technology partner with EC 29/2009, the Data Link Ser- port noise abatement procedures are
Airtel ATN of Dublin, Ireland, ARINC vices Implementing Rule,” stated Pete often difficult to find, and they can ap-
has upgraded the router technology in Grogan, ARINC Senior Director. “We pear in many different formats.”
its ATN/VDLM2 air/ground network in will continue to ensure that our ATN By providing these procedures in
Europe, which ARINC first installed in solutions are the best available.” Frank its flight planning suite, ARINC Direct
2003. Newly enhanced ATN routers are O’Connor, CEO of Airtel ATN, said minimizes operators’ need to search for
now operationally deployed, and are “We have been working with ARINC the information, and greatly simplifies
providing a higher level of performance, since 1999, and the rollout of these new their planning tasks. Noise abatement
message capacity, and reliability. routers is a natural progression in our procedures for more than 22 North
The ARINC network enables secure partnership in delivering superior com- American airports (including Teterboro,
and timely data link communications munications for the ATN.” NJ and Oakland and Santa Monica, CA)
between air traffic controllers and air- In addition to the ATN itself, ARINC are now available, with additional air-
craft operating in the Maastricht upper provided the original avionics test-bed ports continuously being added.

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