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ATCA’s 53rd Annual Conference and Exposition was a Forum for ChangeAfter many months of preparation and planning,

ATCA is pleased to announce that the 53rd Annual

Conference achieved all of its main goals and exceeded

expectations. More than 2000 industry leaders,

vendors, policy makers, and aviation professionals were

brought together to discuss the critical needs of the

National Airspace, celebrate the industry’s achievers,

and allow for valuable networking opportunities.

The Exhibit Hall showcased technology and

organizations that will drive the future of NextGen, and

are currently on the cutting edge of creating change

within the aviation community. There were more than

2000 visitors to the Exhibit Hall. In addition, more than

500 local middle and high school students came to the

Hall. The students were given the opportunity to explore

companies and learn more about aviation careers.

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Middle and High school students that have a science and math focus visit the ATCA Exhibit Hall.

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Both the Awards ceremony and Scholarship luncheons were

filled with visitors eager to celebrate the accomplishments

of seasoned professionals as well as students ready to begin

their careers. ATCA would once again like to acknowledge and

congratulate all award and scholarship winners. Additionally

we would like to thank our Scholarship Luncheon speaker,

Ruth Leverenz, and congratulate her on her many successful

years at FAA as she transitions into a much deserved retirement.

It is November and the Annual Conference is behind us. Although we have not completed the analysis of the attendee surveys, many of you have expressed that the conference was a success. The tally for attendees was over 1100 registrants and over 2500 visitors. This is a record for attendance. We also had more exhibitors than in recent years. The exhibit floor was

configured to better facilitate a flow that created greater foot traffic for all exhibitors.

We moved to a different conference hall this year and we filled it. It was a much better venue and offered us more robust audio visual options. This allowed us to better respond to member needs. I have heard again and again how pleased the membership and the panels were with the text messaging that allowed anonymous participation from the audience. If you recall from years past, there were some panels that received no questions. That is no longer the case and we have started to run over time with questions. Granted, some of the content asked may be difficult for the panels, but that is the point. We want to address the tough questions.

The ATCA Board of Directors has transitioned to the new members. Peter Challan is the Chairman and Monte Belger is the Chairman-Elect. Please see the website for the entire board composition. I welcome the new Board and look forward to the continuing Board support I have enjoyed the last two years. I thank the outgoing Board members for the vision they have consistently given. I want to especially thank Neil Planzer who has provided board leadership and continuous strides in turning the Association around.

ATCA hosts the Civil Military Air Traffic Management Summit know as CMAC™, which attracts Civil and Military Aviation leaders from around the world. ATCA is in discussions regarding the next venue. We will further communicate on this issue in the near future.

President’s MessageBy Pete Dumont

Chairman, Neil Planzer presents FAA, Acting Deputy Administrator, Ruth Leverenz a retirement gift.

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Captain Stephen Riley, Milton Souza and his wife.

Petty Officer Third Class Zachary Reeves and his wife (to his left), Petty Officer First Class Jason Butterfield, and Staff Sergeant Nathan D. Vinson.

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November 5th’s post-Presidential Election panel

addressed the new Administration and Transition.

“From a policy perspective, it’s going to be a long time

before we know the direction, particularly for DOT,”

stated guest Norm Mineta, a Democrat who served

as transportation secretary during Bush’s first term.

“We can’t afford to have NextGen slip any further,”

Mineta said, noting that the program has been slowed

by the failure to reauthorize FAA. “So the priority really

has to be to... get NextGen funded.”

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Norm Mineta and Peggy Gilligan were among those on the panel entitled “What Now? New Administration and Transition.”

FAA Associate Administrator-Aviation Safety Peggy Gilligan, speaking at the conference, cautioned that it may take

most of next year for a new administrator to be named and confirmed by the Senate and select his or her deputies.

“The political team at FAA is really not likely to be in place until the end of [2009] and that could determine how fast

we can move forward on reauthorization,” she said.

Neil Planzer presents John Crichton with the Glen A. Gilbert Award

November 5th’s Glen A. Gilbert Memorial Dinner was

fitting tribute to an industry leader, John Crichton.

John is the President and CEO of NAV CANADA and

is a new ATCA Board Member.

The evening was celebratory and entertaining as guest were

serenaded by the dinner theatre act, The Three Waiters.

*For complete catalog of event photos please visit http://www.atca.org/photogallery.aspx

Adacel Launches New Strategy in Pilot Training Market CAE exclusive on Adacel’s ATCiB discontinued…Marsha Bell to lead new Adacel division

Adacel, an industry leader in air traffic control automation, simulation, speech recognition technology and software

integration, announced today that the Company is embarking on expanding into innovative global pilot training and

systems by capitalizing on the technologies developed for ATC controller training and simulation. Under the plan

Adacel has introduced a new business unit to be led by Marsha Bell that will specifically address the commercial pilot

training market and will aggressively pursue opportunities for their pilot training systems.

Joining Adacel as Vice President Commercial Pilot Training and Systems, Ms Bell’s responsibilities will include directing

a new sales approach for Adacel’s revolutionary ATCiB (Air Traffic Control in a Box) automated ATC environment for

flight simulators. Marsha has over 20 years experience in the commercial pilot training market including positions with

FlightSafety International and for the last ten years with Alteon, Boeing’s training company. Her last position was Vice

President Marketing, where she was responsible for establishing the Multi Crew Pilot License (MPL) program for Alteon.

Initially, Adacel’s ATCiB, was jointly launched into the commercial flight training market under an exclusive agreement

with CAE. The exclusive agreement with CAE has now lapsed enabling Adacel to offer ATCiB directly to other simulator

manufacturers and operators. Adacel will continue to fully support CAE’s market and customer needs for the ATCiB product.

“The CAE agreement was a great opportunity for us to work directly with a world leader in flight training and simulation

and has allowed us to significantly enhance the product to meet real world training requirements,” said Fred Sheldon,

Adacel’s CEO North America. “I am very excited about the opportunity to have an industry leader like Marsha Bell join

our team at exactly the right time. We are now poised for substantial growth in a significant new market for us.”

Adacel’s ATCiB is the only existing ATC environment application that meets applicable current and proposed flight

simulation training standards. It will be joined under the umbrella of Adacel’s new business unit by a new concept in

applied learning for aviation language and communications procedures launched by Adacel earlier this year at the WATS

2008 tradeshow. The product, dubbed ICE (Intelligent Communications Environment) Pilot, integrates speech recognition

and simulation technology into the teaching process to create a virtual, interactive environment that reinforces learning.

ICE Pilot is directly applicable to the Aviation English requirements of ICAO and the Ab Initio pilot training markets.

Adacel will be demonstrating their pilot training products at ATCA in Washington D.C. this November and at I/ITSEC in

Orlando, Florida this December.

About AdacelAdacel (ASX:ADA) was established in 1987. The company develops advanced air traffic control (ATC) simulation and training systems, world class air traffic management (ATM) software, and innovative speech recognition applications. Adacel’s North American headquarters are in Orlando, Florida with Company offices in Washington, D.C., Montreal, Canada, and Melbourne, Australia.

Adacel’s technology revolutionizes speech applications for operational voice control systems and interactive control of smart computer generated entities in training simulations. Our ATC simulators are leading the global effort to safely optimize controller training and reduce dependency on operational on-the-job training. Adacel’s Aurora ATM Platform includes capabilities envisaged for FAA NextGen and EUROCONTROL SESAR programs; providing the enabling technology for initiatives to reduce carbon emissions in oceanic airspace. Support services are available for all products including full-time, on-site operation and maintenance.

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New Members November

Louisa Jaffe, TAPE-Technical and Project Engineering LLC

William Jaffe, TAPE-Technical and Project Engineering LLC

John Bowler, TAPE-Technical and Project Engineering LLC

Noel Wolber, TAPE-Technical and Project Engineering LLC

David Leaser, Serco Management Services, Inc.

Fred Messina, Alfred Mark Consulting, Inc.

Giacomo Biscotti, ARINC

Amanda Blizzard, Lockheed Martin

Andy Campbell, NAV CANADA

Irakli Davitadze, Sakaeronavigatsia Ltd.

Dimitar Dobrev, Sakaeronavigatsia Ltd.

Harry Hargrove, The Boeing Company

James Harwood, Harris Corporation

Erik Hohmann, Deutsche Flugsicherung DFS

Augusto Luis, NAV Portugal EPE

Matthias Whittome, GroupEAD Europe S.L.

Greg Albjerg, HNTB Corporation

Chris Balcik, Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.

December

Gregory Carr, Sensis Corp.

Frederick Wieland, Sensis Corp.

David Rappaport, Sensis Corp.

David Schleicher, Sensis Corp.

Douglas Sweet, Sensis Corp.

Matthew Blake, Sensis Corp.

Paul Doerrer, Stonebridge Strategies, LLC

Donna Redmon, FAA Memphis TRACON

Ernie Bilotto, FAA ATO-R

Vivian Smith, FAA ATO HQTRS

Sponsorship OpportunitiesATCA offers sponsorship opportunities for

members and non-members to demonstrate

their support.

Visit http://www.atca.org/sponsorship.aspx

to view the benefits of each sponsorship level.

May 5, 2009ATCA Spring Golf OutingAtlantic City, New Jersey

May 5-7, 2009ATCA/FAA/NASA Technical SymposiumResorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Summer 2009CMAC™ Civil/Military Air Traffic Management SummitMontreal, Canada

October 4-7, 200954th Annual ATCA Annual Conference & ExpositionGaylord National on the Potomac, National Harbor, Maryland

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ATCA Remembers Philip KarstenPhilip Karsten, ATCA member since May 4, 1956, passed away on October 16, 2008 in Margate, NJ. Phil (still registered as ATCA Member 113) was a very active member of ATCA. During 2007’s 52nd Annual ATCA Conference and Exposition Cliff was awarded the Cliff Burton Memorial Award which is reserved for an ATCA member, who during his/her membership, provided support and promotion of ATCA and its objectives beyond the call of duty.

Phil Karsten, was a member of ATCA for over 52 years, and will be remembered for his contribution to the betterment of the ATC system and his outstanding service to ATCA and the ATC profession. Phil was in the New York Air Route Traffic Control Center when ATCA was founded in 1956. During his seven year tour of duty as air traffic controller Phil recruited many new ATCA members and was subsequently elected the first New York Center ATCA Chapter Chairman. In the following years he served terms as an ATCA Board Member and was a long time member of the ATCA Awards Committee, including a number of years as the Chairman. He subsequently transferred to the National Aviation Experimental Center in

Atlantic City where in addition to developing and testing new ATC automation equipment he was involved in organizing many user and public relations events to emphasize the importance of Air Traffic Control. His long time support of ATCA is further demonstrated by his attendance at all but 2 of the 52 annual meetings held by ATCA. Phil Karsten served his country, the Air Traffic Control profession and ATCA with great dignity, honor and enthusiasm for well over a half century.

The Advent of Reliability: Egypt now operates COMSOFT AFTN/CIDIN/AMHS flagship AIDA-NG

The new AFTN/CIDIN/AMHS solution for the National Air Navigation Services Company (NANSC) of Egypt gained site acceptance in Cairo. Utmost customer satisfaction crowned the operational cut-over in mid November.

Cairo/Egypt, November 2008 – COMSOFT announces to have completed the modernization of an existing AFTN/CIDIN system in Egypt. The superior AIDA-NG of COMSOFT is routing the substantial traffic and now guarantees a superior level of smooth and reliable message switching operations in the Cairo Air Navigation Centre.

Cairo is considered the central aeronautical communication hub between Europe, North-Africa and the Middle East. In this important role Cairo has to provide fully standard-compliant and reliable CIDIN services. Therefore, NANSC was seeking for an expeditious completion of the project and a quick transition of operational service to the new system – immediately after successful completion of the site acceptance tests. Within the period of elaborate testing which was conducted in mid November 2008, the new system also proved its capabilities to serve as fully integrated AMHS switch and as sophisticated user agent. Now the Egyptian ANSP is aiming at establishing AMHS connections with neighbouring countries.

In line with an ever increasing number of satisfied AIDA-NG users NANSC is convinced of COMSOFT’s quality-prone work and products. The German ATM supplier is pleased about the satisfying results and acknowledges the outstanding cooperation with NANSC.

The International Federation of Air Traffic Safety Electronic Associations is supporting the introduction of European Community Single European Sky and the related SESAR technology programme. IFATSEA, as an international organization, shares a great deal of the enthusiasm of the Member States of the European Community to see the benefits of the SES proposals in safety, capacity, efficiency and the environment.

Technology will play an essential role in the future of Air Traffic Management (ATM) both globally as seen in the FAA Next Gen project and in Europe as demonstrated during the SESAR definition phase. On her address to the 38th IFATSEA general Assembly held last October, Mrs. Nancy Graham, ICAO Air Navigation Bureau Director, raised the global shortage of Air Traffic Safety Electronics Personnel (ATSEP) as a barrier to implementing such significant technology programmes. IFATSEA has already taken steps to address this challenge: ATSEP Qualification and Training standardization and our proposals for harmonization of the ATSEP License. The final objective of the SES legislation is a single European airspace. To achieve this, with the rapid and constant evolution of technologies, ATSEP qualifications and training must be adequate and applied consistently throughout the European Community. As lead safety regulator for the European ATM and CNS systems, EASA shall have the responsibilities for oversight of this technology and the people (ATSEP) who operate and maintain this infrastructure for the entire European airspace. The safety regulation shall include all core components of the ATM/CNS safety chain including ATSEP.

The only way to successfully ensure the standardization of ATSEP qualifications and training throughout the EU is the introduction of a community wide ATSEP license, similar to the Pilot and ATCO licenses. On 18 November, at the Bordeaux Aviation Summit, 6 States (Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Germany, France and Switzerland) signed a “declaration of intent” to jointly build up a common functional airspace block (FAB Europe Central) with an objective to set up an institutional framework for FABEC by 2010. A FABEC feasibility study suggests important benefits to customers in terms of fewer delays, reduced route extensions, reduced CO2 emission and cost savings while increasing levels of safety.

IFATSEA is offering its support to the FABEC as we will do for other FABs also, and is ready to bring both its expertise in ATM/CNS operations and its concrete experience of Air Traffic Safety. Specifically attractive to IFATSEA is the potential for co-operation in 21 areas outlined by the FABEC Study Technical Working group. To meet the target of a Single European Sky, there is a true need to ensure the co-ordination of all FAB initiatives. We have to be involved from the start of the project and for that reason; we call for a true collaborative process. Otherwise, the result of the FABEC process would be deeply compromised.

IFATSEA represents more than 20,000 ATSEP (Air Traffic Safety Electronics Personnel) worldwide. The prime objectives of IFATSEA are aviation safety, security and efficiency.

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IFATSEA welcomes political will in SES, SESAR and FABEC SES and SESAR benefits

Conclusion

The creation of a Single European Sky, the development and deployment of SESAR technology and the restructuring of European airspace into functional blocks of airspace are some of the most challenging initiatives of the past decades in aviation.

IFATSEA covering and representing ATSEP professionals worldwide, will be a major asset in delivering the success for all the European FAB proposals.

IFATSEA is offering its full support for delivering a new global ATM and CNS system that will increase safety, capacity and effectiveness.

Contact (media only) press@ifatsea.org http://www.ifatsea.org

Issue sponsored by

Officers and Board of DirectorsChairman, Peter H. Challan, Harris CorporationChairman-Elect, Monte Belger, Lockheed MartinTreasurer, Corporate-at-Large, Cynthia Castillo, CSSI, Inc.Secretary, Corporate-at-Large, Suzette Matthews, AmTech Center for CollaborationPresident, Peter F. Dumont, Air Traffic Control AssociationNortheast Area Director: Mike Headley, ApptisEast Area Director: Jeff Griffith, Washington Consulting GroupSoutheast Area Director: Robert Coulson, Harris CorporationNorth Central Area Director: Jim Crook, Retired, US Air ForceSouth Central Area Director: Joe Kisicki, Diversified International Sciences CorporationWestern Area Director: Mike Perie, Retired, FAA

Canada, Caribbean, Central and South America, Mexico Area Director: John Crichton, NAV CANADAEurope, Africa, Middle East Area Director: Steve James, NATSPacific, Asia, Australia Area Director: Bob Gardiner, ACMAT Consultants

StaffKen Carlisle, Director, Meetings and ExpositionsBrian Courter, Meetings and Programs CoordinatorChristine Oster, Director, Business OperationsCarrie Rowe, Director, MembershipClaire Rusk, Director, Conference Planning & StrategyMichele Townes, Director, Communications

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