For the first time, the Leaders of the Air Navigation Services Provider M-NAV, Mr. Nikolche Taseski and Mr. Aleksandar Palchevski along with ATM and CNS Experts from M-NAV were on one-day working meeting with representatives from HCAA-Thessaloniki (Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority), neighbouring Hellenic Republic.  

The main topic that was discussed was the implementation of OLDI (On Line Data Interchange) with MAKEDONIA APP, as a protocol for automatic coordination and transfer of current flight data between the said two adjacent air traffic control units. The implementation of OLDI is essential for obtaining greater efficiency and accuracy of flight data exchange, i.e.  also the verbal coordination between the adjacent air traffic control units will be reduced.

Other crucial operative topics were also discussed at the meeting.

Having in mind that this is first working meeting with the colleagues from HCAA-Thessaloniki, the meeting may be assessed as particularlysignificant not only in view of improving the process of exchanging automated flight data messages but also in view of generally improved communication, enhanced mutual trust and cooperation between the Hellenic Republic and the Republic of North Macedonia in the area of aviation.

Such constructive and cooperative position of these adjacent ATS units will continue in future as well.

Last week, at the Training Center – Flight Training Europe, S.L in Jerez, Spain,  M-NAV`s candidates for Air Traffic Controllers who had been selected in selection process during the year of 2018, successfully completed an initial training and a training for acquiring ACS and TWR rating.

On this occasion, the Training Center organized  a solemn ceremony to mark this accomplishment and award the respective diplomas. Mr. Nikolche Taseski, ANS Executive Director and President of Management Board along with Ms. Irena Kalichanin, АNS Deputy Director,  Mr. Miguel Caparrós, ATC Head of Training in FTEJerez and Mr. Frik Schoombee, Director/Business Development attended the solemn ceremony together with the other invited guests and representatives of the Training Center.

M-NAV has made great efforts in the process of recruiting and selecting ATCO candidates and has made the best selection as it is evidenced by the praise received from the Training Center, Flight Training Europe, S.L, that this class of M-NAV`s students are the most successful ones “being produced” by the Training Center.

During the ceremony, certificate for achievement in the theoretical part was awarded to the student, Bard Ajdini, while certificate for achievement in the practical part, i.e. training in the simulator was  awarded to Jakov Burneski.

M-NAV is proud of the results of this group as well as of the results of the previous one which also completed its training at ATS Global Dennmark Center few months ago. Our State should be proud of the new aviation ambassadors.

M-NAV is specially delighted of the graduation of these student ATCOs since after almost ten years, the Company received fresh staff (“fresh blood”) that will facilitate the handling of the increased volume of air traffic in future.

One again, M-NAV congratulates to ATCO students for the accomplishment and wishes them successful development of their career path.

Mr. Nikolche Taseski, President of Management Board of M-NAV and ANS Executive Director and Mrs. Jasminka Gocevska, ATM Expert forInternational Collaboration in ANS participated at GateOne CEO Brainstorming Meeting held in Budapest on 20-th of September. Participants from thirteen Air Navigation Service Providers from the region have attended the meeting.

Initially, during the meeting, the future positioning of GateОne as well as the method of operation of the said common platform were brainstormed by the attendees. Each of the Executive Directors of ANSPs, partners of GateОne Platform expressed their position and view about the already established common vision and mission of the alliance.

Mr. Kornél Szepessy, the Chairman of GateОne through presentation enabled the attendees to be reminded of the original purposes to which the alliance strives for, the enhancement of the network functions, knowledge sharing,  establishing coordination platform, joint strategic positioning and objectives and advocacy – based on consensus.

Furthermore, by members` inputs, the essential challenges that directly affect the future of the said platform and the need the same ones to be redefined were highlighted during the meeting. Fear from overlapping with CANSO and with other alliances can cause conflict of opinions, lack of commitment, rigid decision-making were also taken into account. The presentation of SWOT analyses of GateОne enabled the attendees to obtain clearer image about the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.

With an aim of reaching a common understanding of the future directions and positioning of GateOne Platform, the members were divided into 4 groups and by releng brainstorming each group made appropriate conclusions that were further considered as direction for further functioning of the platform.

Members of GateОne accepted the proposal conclusions, i.e. in future the method of advocacy when voting to be changed from consensual to two-thirds majority, all members to have active status, the main focus of the future functioning of the said platform to be real content and the actual topics and issues. The following conclusion has arisen out of the joint position of the attendees at the one-day meeting, as soon as possible GCC to prepare proposal changes of the GateОne Agreement into which all adopted changes related to the method of voting will be incorporated and submitted to CEOs in order to adopt them during the forthcoming meeting in Sofia. At the same time, there was a suggestion all members to submit proposal changes and amendments regarding the strategy, the vision and the mission of GateОne.

On 6^th of September, Ms. Irena Kalichanin, Deputy Director of ANS and Mr. Ivo Paskalov, Head of ATCO Training Center in M-NAV made a working visit to the Training Center in Jerez, Spain where the second group of our students currently undergo training and had a meeting with Mr. Oscar Sordo, the Director of Flight Training Europe, S.L. and with ATCO Instructors as well.

Following the conducted process of selecting candidates for Air Traffic Controllers and following the completion of public procurement procedure, M-NAV signed a Contract on Training the Second Group of 6 candidates for Air Traffic Controllers, 5 out of them shall acquire Area Control  (ACS) Surveillance rating and 1 candidate shall acquire ADI/TWR and APP.

The training of the said candidates commenced on 04^th of August 2019 in Jerez Spain, in the Training Center – Flight Training Europe, S.L.

Flight Training Europe, S.L. has over 30 years of experience in training aviation personnel. FTEJerez has a reputation of one of the leading and most exclusive training organizations in the field of aviation. Over the years FTEJerez has established and consolidated a wide scope of first class aviation training services and a complete portfolio of training Air Traffic Controllers.

Currently, our students are in the phase of taking the theoretical exams of the Basic ATCO Training and the results from the exams achieved so far are excellent. In accordance with the Contract,  the training of M-NAV`s candidates shall end at the beginning of November of this year as far as the five students that shall acquire ACS rating are concerned, and it shall end in December regarding the candidate undergoing  training for acquiring ADI/TWR and APP rating.

We wish our trainees a successful completion of the training and continuation with great results in future!