NAVIAIR is an air navigation service provider. Included in the air navigation services are area control service in Copenhagen FIR as well as approach and tower control service at the Copenhagen Airports of Kastrup and Roskilde, and at the airports of Billund, Aalborg, Aarhus and Bornholm. Flight Information Service is provided in Copenhagen FIR to VFR flights and helicopter flights in the airspace of the North Sea, within Sondre Stromfjord FIR up to FL 195 and within Vagar TIZ. Additionally, NAVIAIR co-ordinates the Search and Rescue Service in Greenland. CNS/ATM systems comprising advanced data links, radar stations, navigational aids (radio beacons, etc.) and data and voice communication systems, are owned and maintained by NAVIAIR. Moreover, NAVIAIR offers technical service and maintenance to third-party customers. NAVIAIR offers training at its own college of all the operative staff of which that of air traffic controllers constitutes the primary part. It takes 3 years to become an Air Traffic Controller. The first 13 month is BASIC TRAINING, and it takes place at ENTRY POINT NORTH in Sweden. After the basic training the education continues in Denmark, mainly at Navair’s Headquarter - but also at some of the other ATC units in Denmark. The Education is both theoretical and practical.
NAVIAIR participates actively in the trans-national co-operation in which efforts are now being made at European level to harmonize airspace structure, ATM procedures and systems necessary to optimise European airspace capacity, flexibility and cost-effectiveness for the benefits of airliners, passengers and society.
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