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| “I’m a graphic designer and work only with my camera and Adobe Photoshop. Photoshop is the love of my life, from the day I learnt how to use it I couldn’t stop. It’s a powerful tool that can add visual elements that you can’t always get just with photography – and that’s what drew me to it.
As you can tell, I’m a fan of surrealism. I was always drawn to dreams and magical concepts, so I try and add a surreal element to all of my photos. Even when I was studying design, I would find myself abandoning the design part and focusing more of adding magic to the pictures. I feel like it’s my therapy, it lets me escape the world for a short time.” OMERIKA in ba-bamail.com Natarajan You can see more of Omerika’s works on her Facebook, Flickr and Etsy. |
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| “I consider dreams and a well-developed imagination to be crucial characters in a person. This is what gives me motivation to create and drives my creations themselves. I think everybody must have a dream, in more ways than one.
I know this may sound childish or cliché, but life is serious enough as it is, so having dreams can keep us sane.” SOURCE…… OMERIKA in ba-bamail.com Natarajan |

The technology means air traffic controllers can work from anywhere. Picture: Saab Source: YouTube
YOUR plane could soon be operated by remote control if the latest trial in Sweden takes off.
Örnsköldsvik airport in the northeast of Sweden has ditched its control tower and is now landing planes via remote control from an airport sitting 100km away. And there are plans for a similar system to come to Australia.
Air traffic controllers for Örnsköldsvik now sit in a computer simulated room at the larger Sundsvall airport surrounded by giant television screens beaming footage to them of Örnsköldsvik’s incoming planes.

Air traffic controllers sit in a room hundreds of kilometres away where they are beamed footage of incoming planes. Picture: Saab. Source: YouTube
The only airport in the world to be managed by remote control, it is called the Remote Tower System (RTS) and is being trialled in Sweden as a way of improving accuracy and cutting costs.
It works by streaming high definition images of incoming planes at Örnsköldsvik to a Remote Tower Control room based in Sundsvall. Using high tech cameras, sensors and microphones — the RTS collects data about the plane to provide a simulated digital visual to the controllers as well as surround sound audio of the incoming plane.
The technology has been designed by Saab, the Swedish defence and security company, who says it provides “enhanced situational awareness” for air traffic controllers.
New features include object tracking and alerting, night vision, image enhancement, onscreen display of plane statistics, runway incursion warnings and options for zooming and switching to infra-red view in thick fog and darkness.

The system will use real time object tracking. Picture: Saab. Source: YouTube
Mikael Henriksson, the project manager of the RTS in Sundsvall, told NPR it’s a “paradigm shift” for the industry. “For the air traffic controller, this is like airline pilots going from propeller to jet,” he said.
NPR spoke to Erik Backman who runs the RTS in Sundsvall, who says he was dubious when he first saw the mock-up technology in 2004. However a decade later he says they’ve been landing planes remotely for months without any major problems.
The use of remote control towers has been explored by the aviation industry as a way of cutting costs at airports too quiet to warrant full time air traffic controllers.
Later this year a US airport, Leesburg Executive Airport in Virginia, will be installing the RTC, making it the first remote-controlled operated airport in the country.

Saab believes regional airports can be operated by remote towers. Picture: Saab. Source: YouTube
Australia is also considering installing the technology with plans to control planes at Adelaide airport by air traffic controllers sitting in Melbourne, 700km away.
Rob Walker, spokesman for Airservices Australia, told the Adelaide Advertiser that the increase in air traffic across Australia requires an upgraded and centralised air traffic system.
He said this system would allow controllers monitoring aircraft in Adelaide to be based in Melbourne and aircraft in Cairns to be monitored from Brisbane.
“There is no change in the number of controllers but only where the service is delivered from … and safety is not an issue,’’ he said. Changes will not be made until 2017.
SOURCE::::: http://www.news.com.au
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Both Europe 24 and North Atlantic Skies were designed to give an overview of the daily complexity and volumes of air traffic across the UK and Europe and to do so in a way that was cinematic and exciting to watch. I think we were able to do that to great effect, but we now want to take you a little deeper.
We are therefore very excited to publish UK 24 – your guided tour to some of what makes UK aviation work.
Our airspace is busy, complex and there is a lot going on. Each year we manage around 2.2 million movements, peaking at over 8,000 a day (although there are around 7,000 on this particular day), with only 5.5 seconds delay per flight attributable to NATS. Obviously there are the flows of large aircraft from the airports into and out of the UK, but there is also a lot of activity outside controlled airspace. UK 24 is designed to help visualise the breadth and depth of UK aviation and why airspace is such an important asset.
The day starts with the bow wave of transatlantic traffic heading towards the UK on their organised and separated tracks. This is quickly joined by traffic from Europe and the first waves of departures from UK airports. Over a short period of time the traffic levels grow to show the main trunk roads of airspace as well as the hubs around London, Manchester and central Scotland.
We then move to give a unique view of the holding stacks over London and how they are a fundamental part of the Heathrow operation, providing the constant flow of traffic that makes it the world’s busiest dual runway airport with 1,350 movements a day.
Our tour then take us around the UK, including the other major airports, our two control centres in Swanwick and Prestwick, some general aviation traffic and examples of military training off the east coast of England and near to North Wales. We then dwell on the spider’s web of helicopter tracks that originate from Aberdeen, taking people and vital supplies to and from the North Sea oil and gas rigs.
We hope you enjoy this insight into the complexity and beauty of a day of UK air traffic and the value of airspace as the invisible infrastructure that makes it all work.
The aviation sector and its supply chain generates over £20bn per year in economic output and directly employs circa 220,000 people. At Heathrow alone, goods worth £133 billion were shipped in and out last year, more than the combined value of goods transiting through the UK’s two largest ports, Felixstowe and Southampton.
Aviation is on average a much more productive sector than the rest of the economy; each pound spent on upgrading our aviation infrastructure is expected to generate over £5 in return. In addition aviation is a significant growth sector within key regions for UK trade, for example China, the Middle East and Turkey have ambitious plans to more than double their capacity.
Without additional capacity in the UK, we risk the rapid growth in traffic and its associated commerce being focused elsewhere.
SOURCE:::: Brendan Kelly in http://www.nats.aero.blog
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