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NATS Altitude

Altitude is a monthly live-streamed podcast from NATS - the UK's leading air traffic control company. Here people from across the aviation industry join our own team of experts to offer insights on a wide range of topics. Find out more about the world of air traffic control at NATS.aero. 

  1. OCT 8

    Drones: Redefining Industries, Revolutionising Lives

    From keeping us safe and reducing our climate impact to delivering hot meals in just three minutes – just some of the incredible drone use cases we heard about in a special episode of Altitude recorded at the DroneX Tradeshow & Conference. ✈ Taryn Evans tells us about the National Police Chiefs'​ Council ambitious drone programme.✈ Alan Hicks explains how Manna Drone Delivery have made over 200,000 deliveries in Dublin.✈ Andrew Sage updates us on NATS’ foundational OpenAir concept.✈ ...

    1h 2m

  2. JUL 4

    Tips and Advice for Future Trainee Air Traffic Controllers

    NATS has just reopened recruitment for trainee air traffic controllers, but what does that process look like and what kind of career can successful candidates look forward to?In this special episode of Altitude we’re exploring the whole recruitment process, from understanding the requirements and the application process through to assessment and beyond. We’ll also be looking at the training, what’s involved and how candidates can best prepare for success. Apply now at nats.aero/careersYo...

    35 min

  3. MAY 31

    Beyond the Beaches: The amazing aviation innovations behind D-Day

    The 6th June 2024 will mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day – the Allied invasion of Western Europe during the Second World War and one of the most pivotal days in human history.Most people will be familiar with the sight of the landings in Normandy, but fewer know the story beyond the beaches. D-Day itself saw an incredible 14,674 flights, all handled with nothing more than flare guns and signal lamps, paper and pencils, blackboard and chalk, rudimentary radio navigation and an enormous amount...

    46 min

  4. APR 24

    Serving from the skies - London's amazing emergency services pilots

    With such unique requirements, one of the most essential and complex users of our skies are the emergency services. In this month’s Altitude, we’re joined by pilots Captain Andrew Brandt from the National Police Air Service and Captain David Rolfe from London Air Ambulance Service to learn about their amazing life saving work and how collaboration is essential to keeping the ground and skies safe. You can also watch an on demand version of the livestream on our YouTube channel: http...

    48 min

  5. MAR 15

    30 - Shaping our future skies

    From delivering airspace modernisation and integrating drones through to understanding the impact of AI and the ever pressing need to address aviation’s climate impact, the list of priorities for leaders in air traffic management is a long and complex one. Our industry is in the midst of a period of unprecedented change and that’s in addition to delivering the safe and resilient service people rightly expect every day. In this month’s Altitude, we invite Martin Rolfe, CEO of NATS, a...

    50 min

  6. MAR 1

    29 - Winter Operations: Finnish Snow-how

    Ice, snow, howling winds and temperatures as low as minus 30.C are hardly ideal conditions to be running an international airport, but that’s the reality for the team at Rovaniemi, Finland’s second busiest airport. In beautiful Lapland, sitting on the edge of the Arctic Circle, the near constant need to clear runways and de-ice aircraft should conspire against delivering a smooth operation, but the weather hasn’t closed Rovaniemi in over seven years. Attracting record passenger numb...

    46 min

  7. JAN 25

    28 - The Human Factor

    Human Factors is the understanding of ‘the human in the loop’. It’s about how people behave and interact both with technology and each other, and it’s something that has become fundamental to safety across aviation and a host of other industries.But what really is Human Factors? Where did it come from and why is it become so integral? In this month’s Altitude, we’ll be digging into the history, the practical applications and the challenges posed by the rise of things like AI and automation.&n...

    57 min

  8. 11/30/2023

    27 - Concorde: 20 years on

    For more than 25 years, Concorde was the world's only successful supersonic airliner. Flying faster than the rotation of the earth, it could cross the Atlantic in just two and a half hours, with passengers arriving at JFK before they left Heathrow.Now, 20 years after its final ever flight from Heathrow to Filton on 26 November 2003, we look back at the history of one of aviation’s great engineering and technical marvels. There is no one better to help us do that than our very special gue...

    50 min
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Altitude is a monthly live-streamed podcast from NATS - the UK's leading air traffic control company. Here people from across the aviation industry join our own team of experts to offer insights on a wide range of topics. Find out more about the world of air traffic control at NATS.aero. 

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  • Creator
    NATS - UK air traffic control
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2024
  • Episodes
    34
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2024 NATS Altitude
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