An air traffic control training centre in Malmo, Sweden has taken delivery of a new simulation system, specified and installed by Micro Nav, using rear projection systems and bespoke engineering from Paradigm AV in the UK.

Micro Nav and Paradigm complete simulation towers for Malmo air traffic control training academy

Paul Milligan, 22 July 2010

An air traffic control training centre in Malmo, Sweden has taken delivery of a new simulation system, specified and installed by Micro Nav, using rear projection systems and bespoke engineering from Paradigm AV in the UK.

The contract was awarded by Entry Point North (EPN), an international air traffic management academy approved by the Civil Aviation Authorities in Scandinavia.

The academy had previously hired in simulator capacity before the decision was made to purchase their own. Several companies were short listed and Micro Nav tendered successfully for the contract. Which was to provide air traffic Control simulators for the entire academy, enabling EPN to carry out all aspects of air traffic control training.

The requirement from EPN was that the display solution should be "at least as good" as the existing systems, whereupon Micro Nav conducted a site survey.

A rear projection solution was favoured in view of ceiling height restrictions and the fact that there were pillars in the room. And given the room parameters Paradigm AV were able to produce a design that would fit the customer’s requirements.

Micro Nav were successfully able to replace the existing cubes in the two towers at the ATC training room with two arrays of six ‘minimal mullion’ 120in New Wide Angle rear projection screens from dnp in Denmark, complete with twin-mirror rigs.

Canon SX60 LCOS 2,500 lumens projectors were precision mounted in the Paradigm rigs.