Lochard Flight Track Display Service for BAA - Southampton Airport

15 Apr 2004

BAA Southampton implements Lochard Flight Track Display as part of Noise Abatement program Lochard, the world's leading supplier of Airport Noise and Flight Track Monitoring Systems, today announced it will supply BAA Southampton Airport with the latest in Aircraft Flight Track Display Technology. The Airport is enjoying a significant rise in passenger traffic, recording an unprecedented 73% increase in passenger movements over the last 12 months, making it one of the fastest growing airports in Europe. Whilst the airport is well positioned to meet this demand, management has also had to consider the repercussions of increased noise from more flights. The airports Noise Abatement Program aims to minimise the noise impact on the neighbouring community. The program focuses on monitoring where aircraft fly, and feeding back reliable information to neighbours complaining about over-flights. To do this effectively, the airport needed a system to query recorded flight paths quickly and efficiently. Using the service, neighbours enquiries about aircraft over-flights can be investigated efficiently without taking excessive time from Operations staff. "One of the things we like about Lochard's solution is that it is extremely simple to use and our operations staff can now quickly and accurately respond to community enquiries, identifying and reporting the altitude of an aircraft in airspace as the source of a complaint", said the Managing director, Mr. David Cumming. The system is designed to eliminate the time required to manually link flight paths and tracks to the time of an enquiry. Lochard's Vice President, Phil Stollery praised the airports forward thinking. "This is a leap forward for the airports community responsiveness and positions the airport well to build on its existing noise abatement policy. The solution is quick to deploy as it’s delivered entirely as a hosted service over the Internet and doesn’t require development work on-site." The service goes live late Spring, 2004.