Aries Weather now ready for tower deployment in Greenland

Tern Systems have been working with Mittarfeqarfiit, the operator of airports in Greenland, to deploy the Aries Weather system. The project is progressing according to plan and recently passed the important milestone of Site Acceptance Testing (SAT). The tests were supported by Tern Systems using video-conferencing technology and passed with Aries successfully installed in Nuuk airport. This major milestone in the project and the positive result confirms that the system works seamlessly when connected to weather equipment at Greenland airports. After a validation period required by the Danish regulator, Aries will become the main weather monitoring and reporting system at Nuuk Airport ATC tower. The next step will be to deploy the system in 12 other airports across Greenland. Training for Air Traffic Controllers at Mittarfeqarfiit is scheduled for the coming weeks.

Aries Weather is a proven Aerodrome Weather Reporting system developed by Tern Systems to operate in the harsh weather conditions around Iceland.

Benoit Branger, the Tern Systems project manager for the Aries Weather deployment in Greenland, is very pleased with the result of the SAT and looks forward to the next steps in the project:

“We are confident that the Aries Weather System will be a great addition to the Airport towers in Greenland, providing more efficient weather monitoring and reporting and an enhanced user experience. It has been a great pleasure to work with the experts at Mittarfeqarfiit in this project and we look forward to finishing the system deployment at Greenland’s Airports and to our future relationship.”

Picture: Aries Weather System is a simple Weather Monitoring and Reporting Solution for Airports

Orion Simulator to be installed in Alicante training facility

Tern Systems have a long term partnership with FerroNATS - the leading commercial air traffic control operator in Spain. Tern Systems have delivered simulators for training Air Traffic Controllers including Alicante and Ibiza aerodromes. Last year, Tern Systems deployed to FerroNATS Madrid facilities the latest generation of the Orion Tower simulator which accurately recreates Ibiza airport and terminal from real-world data.

Work continues to add another installation to a FerroNATS training facility in Alicante, using the new Orion Voice system from Tern Systems. This is a new product from Tern Systems and is still under development. The FerroNATS partnership will give valuable feedback to the development team, looking to further enhance the product.

More information about the Orion Simulator

The video below shows inside the Orion Tower simulator for Ibiza Airport, a realistic 3D environment powered by Unreal Engine 4.

Aries Weather Factory Acceptance Testing for Greenland airports

Tern Systems and Mittarfeqarfiit, the operator of airports in Greenland recently performed Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) for the Aries Weather system that will be deployed in Greenland later this year. Aries Weather is a proven Aerodrome Weather Reporting system developed by Tern Systems to operate in the harsh weather conditions around Iceland. Aries will be installed first at Nuuk Airport and will be followed by installations in 12 other airports across Greenland.

Traditionally, the Factory Acceptance Testing would be performed with the representatives of Mittarfeqarfiit at our HQ in Reykjavík. But as the COVID pandemic has restricted worldwide travel, our staff had to adapt and use online video-conferencing technology to perform the tests remotely. Our software engineers along with the operational experts at Mittafeqarfiit successfully completed the tests in two days.

We congratulate the team at Tern Systems and Mittafeqarfiit for their work to achieve this great milestone, and we look forward to future co-operation with Greenland airports.

The Factory Acceptance Tests were conducted online between Tern Systems and the team from Greenland Airports.