27 articles in this issue
Francisco Jesus Jimenez Serrano, Antonin Kazda
Adverse weather conditions, strikes, political reasons and other different causes can impact the long-term success of an airline. An effective Disruption Management System can predict the occurrence of these events and assist by reducing the impact on the... see more
Andrea Brezonakova
Flying has always been considered as a desirable job occupation. But, what are the current demands and challenges of becoming a professional airline pilot? Is the occupation of a pilot really attractive or is it just a golden glitter? This paper looks at ... see more
Hatice Küçükönal, Gülsah Sedefoglu
Air transport is one of the most important industries in the world with its rapid growth, and direct and indirect contribution to world economy. In other words, GDP, tourism and employment are the key factors causing that growth in air transport and an in... see more
Alena Novák Sedlácková, Pavol Lokaj
Low-cost carriers have flourished in Asia as growing wealth encourages more people to fly for the first time. At least a dozen low-cost airlines started operating in Asia Pacific the past decade, ordering hundreds of aircraft from Airbus and Boeing. In th... see more
Peter Bobál, Slavomír Sipina, Filip Škultéty
Obtaining geographical information on the Earth’s surface can be very costly and tedious. For this reason, remote sensing methods are increasingly used for these purposes, which allow the acquisition of terrain information via devices most often placed on... see more
Stefan Kudlac, Jozef Majercak, Peter Majercak
To ensure sustainable system of freight transport is necessary to provide efficient transport services with significant focus on level of customer service. The air transport system is very often the part of logistics chain in intermodal freight transport ... see more
Michal Cervinka
Low cost carriers have become significant players in air transport market over the past 20 years. They have a significant impact on the operation of many regional airports. Such airports are often used as secondary airports for low cost carriers operation... see more
Antonín Kazda, Martin Hromádka, Boris Mrekaj
Regional airports represent not only important points of access to remote locations and parts of country with limited or lengthy ground access but also have significant economic impact on the surrounding region. On the other hand, every public airport wit... see more
Abraham Pius, Obioma R. Nwaogbe, Ogunnumesi Opeoluwa, Imad Guenane
A detailed investigation of the impact of airport touting on passengers at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA). Using several analytical tools such as basic descriptive, multiple regression’s analysis and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) to as... see more
Nikolas Žácik, Andrej Novák, Andrés Soto, Grzegorz Drupka
The main objective of this expertise was to examine if Surveillance Analysis and Support System for ATC Centre (SASS-C) verification tool is interoperable with currently implemented Multi-Static Primary Surveillance Radar (MSPSR) and Passive Surveillance ... see more
Maria Kovacova, Jan Balint
Despite of expected growth of traffic from 1.75 % up to 2.4 % in period 2010 - 2050 in the airspace of Europe (Eurocontrol/STATFOR) there is still the need to ensure high level of safety performance. The main goal – safe provision of Air Traffic Services ... see more
Anna Tomová
The case study of the British air navigation service provider NATS reveals the trend to conduct two businesses (regulated and commercial) within the air navigation services industry. The analysis of the commercial pillar in the NATS´s business (with air n... see more
Doris Novak, Karlo Jurkovac
Area navigation (RNAV) and other appropriate navigation specifications of the ICAO Performance Based Navigation concept represents a significant shift from conventional radio navigation to navigation primarily based on the Global Navigation Satellite Syst... see more
Anna Kwasiborska
The increasing number of air operations is a challenge for air traffic controllers. The organization of air traffic can be achieved by better aligning the planes for landing or sequencing. Sequencing problem is commonly found in many areas of science, ind... see more
Andrej Novák, Karel Havel, Michal Janovec
This paper deals with the flight measuring and testing of the Instrument Landing System (ILS) by flying laboratory aircraft – AeroLab 1 at the University of Žilina. The paper focusses on the comparative aerial measurements of the ILS which is installed at... see more
Piotr Andrzej Dmochowski, Jacek Skorupski
Air traffic flow and capacity management is one of the basic activities which aims at assuring safety and economic efficiency of air traffic. In European airspace it is realized by Network Management Operation Centre (NMOC) in a centralized way. On the do... see more
Matthew Stogsdill, Pernilla Ulfvengren
The rate at which accidents/incidents occur within the Air Transport System (ATS) has remained consistent over the past two decades (European Commission, 2016). If such a rate is maintained and the ATS grows as expected (AirBus, 2013; Boeing, 2013), then ... see more
Jozef Cernan, Marián Hocko, Miroslava Cúttová
The paper deals with the influence of the selected type of biofuel on the reliability of the operation of aircraft engines. The use of the alternative fuels becomes an indispensable part of all types of transport. However, the different chemical compositi... see more
Ján Labun, Stanislav Fábry, Marek Ceškovic, Pavol Kurdel
Presented paper concentrates on accidentally identified, specific method of mechanical vibration demodulation, radiated high-frequency signal of aircraft communication antenna, located directly on the aircraft. It describes the structure and solution of t... see more
Ján Labun, Pavol Kurdel, Marek Ceškovic, Alena Novák Sedlácková
The main focus of this paper is aimed at the possibilities of mutual influence of ground and airborne weather surveillance radars (WSR) from the operation in approximately same frequency band viewpoint. Specialized technical and legal details of the probl... see more
Ivica Smojver, Darko Ivancevic
The application of numerical methods in the improvement of safety of aeronautical structures has been demonstrated in this work through examples in which advanced numerical methods have been used in the structural analyses. The work presents the various r... see more
Gerard Gibbs, Huamin Jia, Irfan Madani
One of the basic tasks for autonomous flight with aerial vehicles (drones) is the detection of obstacles within its flight environment. As the technology develops and becomes more robust, drones will become part of the toolkit to aid maintenance repair an... see more
Petar Andraši, Tomislav Radišic, Mario Muštra, Jurica Ivoševic
With the proliferation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), a series of safety and security challenges emerged. In recent years there have been numerous safety and security incidents with UAVs which prompted an increase in research of surveillance and inte... see more
Elisa Capello, Matteo Dentis, Giorgio Guglieri, Laura Novaro Mascarello, Luca Spanó Cuomo
This paper proposes the outline of a Cloud-based supervision system for Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS), which are operating in urban environments. The novelty of this proposed concept is dual: (i) a Cloud-based supervision system focusing on saf... see more
Jan Žižka, Štefan Dúha, František Jun
The paper provides an overview of a research conducted by the Air Training and Educational Centre of the University of Žilina on implementing Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) into flight training curricula for a range of VFR and IFR licences. Si... see more
Giorgio Guglieri, Daniel Hanus, Pascal Revel
The paper presents a possible roadmap for the definition of a European quality label for aerospace related higher education degrees. The proposal is the result of a two-years long Horizon 2020 project that has involved a great portion of the European stak... see more
Ján Rostáš, Filip Škultéty
The paper deals with an incorporation of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) into current flight training curricula. GNSS implementation have changed the world of navigation dramatically. GNSS allows utilization of an accurate and instant informati... see more