Server virtualisation, IP-based systems running an environmentally-friendly building, and a web-based, collaborative system allowing air traffic managers and airlines to more effectively work together all feature among the finalists in the Best Sustainable IT Project category of the Computerworld Excellence Awards.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Winston Peters took a sideswipe at Christchurch Press journalist Colin Espiner at the opening of a local office by French defence, aerospace and security company Thales this month.
Airways New Zealand has signed a contract with Christchurch-based Alchemy, a software development and design company, to develop an online air traffic capacity management tool.
Air traffic control students at Airways New Zealand’s training centre used to use a mechanical simulator, made up of runways painted onto ping-pong tables and sewing machine engines which drove wooden aircraft suspended on wires, to practise their skills.
Unresolved software problems appear to be behind delays in New Zealand’s planned radar upgrade gaining acceptance from Airways Corporation.