007 - Remote Towers - Niclas Gustavsson - SAAB Digital Air Traffic Solutions

The guest of this episode is Niclas Gustavsson - Vice President Business Development & Governmental Affairs at SAAB Digital Air Traffic Solutions. The topic today is the remote towers in Sweden and touched the following aspects:

• developments at Swedish Mountain Airport and the new Remote Tower Centre in Stockholm
• lessons learned from remote tower projects 
• what could be done differently
• differences between building an airport with a remote tower from scratch and adding a remote tower to an existing airport
• remote towers - why now
• the role of new technologies and the human factor in regards to remote towers 
• how are partnerships between an ANSP and a tech company formed. New entrants to this field
• ATM /remote towers in five years from now and in 50 years from now