GMV has taken the chance of its participation in the third World ATM Congress 2015, held from 10 to 12 March in Madrid, to showcase some of its inhouse developments for the aeronautics sector. The congress, organized by the Civil Air Navigation Services Organization (CANSO) in association with the Air Traffic Control Association (ATCA), was opened by the Minister for Public Works, Ana Pastor, and attracted a turnout of 6929 with 199 exhibitors and 313 delegates.

In the last decade GMV’s significant and ongoing R&D effort in the aeronautics sector has spawned a comprehensive and varied range of air-traffic-management developments and applications, notably in the application of satellite navigation (GNSS) to performance based navigation and precision approach operations.

emil is an automatic system for ground inspection of instrument landing systems (ILS) and VHF omnidirectional range (VOR) systems; these are radio-aid systems helping aircraft during the landing and en-route flight phases, respectively. Diverse airports of the Spanish Airports and Air Navigation Authority (AENA), including the airports of Barajas in Madrid and El Prat in Barcelona, are now using this system, allowing them to slash radio-aid calibration costs.

Among the support tools for performance-based navigation, and within the magic family of products, GMV displayed magicGEMINI, a software tool for analyzing and monitoring the performance of GNSS-based navigation services, currently being used, among others, by PANSA (Poland’s Air Navigation Services Agency); magicIFP, a web application providing ground and inflight validation of approach procedures based on a Space Based Augmentation System (SBAS), and the magicLPV system for carrying out flight tests to demonstrate these benefits to pilots and airline companies.

Last but not least srx-10i, currently deployed in Spanish airports, is an interference detector (including deliberate interference), enabling any airport to ensure the approach reliability and safety of any GNSS-based aircraft.

By displaying these solutions GMV also rounds out its range of satellite-navigation (GNSS) capabilities and products. GMV has been contributing to the development of satellite navigation for over 20 years now, a business activity that has made it one of the leaders in implementing Europe’s satellite-navigation strategy. GMV’s knowledge in this field and the experience and expertise of its team of professionals have won the company pole position in the development not only of navigation systems but also of various GNSS applications. This leading position has enabled GMV to become a trailblazer in the use of GPS, GLONASS, EGNOS and Galileo signals.