Remote Tower Centre Lower Saxony
DFS Aviation Services GmbH (DAS), a subsidiary of DFS has established a Remote Tower Center in the German state of Lower Saxony. The new control centre celebrated its grand opening in 2024 at Braunschweig airport. Going forward, air navigation services for both the airports of Braunschweig-Wolfsburg and Emden (aerodrome flight information services – AFIS) will be provided from the new RTC at the Braunschweig site, becoming the second such centre in Germany. The Braunschweig centre is designed to be able to support multi remote tower operations for up to four more regional airports in a possible future development.
Aerosense is providing all operational-related services; operational concept, design, safety assessment, training, liasion with regulatory authorities, transition, and cutover.
Picture source: Andreas Rudolph