In
the mid 90's the Swedish Civil Aviation Authority
LVF (Luftfartsverket) started a
major project to upgrade the
Air traffic Control facilities in Sweden. This
meant the building of two new en-route control centres in Stockholm-Arlanda
Airport and Malmo-Sturup Airport. A new tower and a third runway at Arlanda
was also built along
with the upgrading of some twelve towers to use the new facilities. The contract
for the Air Traffic Control Systems was Awarded to Airsys ATM (Now Thales ATM
and part of Thomson CF France) based in
Chessington in the UK and Bagneaux in France.
I was responsible for all aspects of the commissioning and testing of all
hardware, some 60 servers, 150 ATC positions and all associated network
equipment. I produced the commissioning and test specifications, provided
training and support. I also had full responsibility for the commissioning
and acceptance testing with the customer and ran all the appropriate progress
meetings.
