Schools For Air Traffic Controller

Admin | February 09, 2012 | Comments Off

Schools For Air Traffic Controller

Schools For Air Traffic Controller

In 1994 as the last Russian troops were leaving the three again independent Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia thought was began to discuss an integrated air surveillance and defense system to protect their combined airspace. Each of the three countries has fledgling land defense units and coastal patrols but their air defense was non-existent.

First Steps to Air Surveillance

By 1998 a program dubbed BALTNET was outlined to form coverage of their collective airspace. Progress was slow but by January 2001 each country had tied together a patchwork system of air traffic control radars, IFF transponder receivers and a few small military radars into coverage net for each of the Baltic States. They had also tied the three national networks together in a joint Regional Air Surveillance Co-ordination Center (RASCC) established at Kellavere, Estonia to share information. In November 2002 the Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia were invited to start accession negotiations with NATO.