After thorough preparations, the training of a new generation of air traffic controllers recently began in Mostar. It is the first time that the entire training of air traffic controllers is carried out in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) thanks to the use of the most modern portable training simulators, which with the use of an Internet connection enable the training to be carried out at any location, with its complete adaptation to the operational environment and airspace of the control units flights to which they refer.
As Davorin Primorac, Director of the Agency for the Provision of Services in Air Navigation (BHANSA), points out, the training is carried out on the basis of the contract concluded by BHANSA with the Danish training organization GATE Aviation Training.
”Three portable simulators have been installed in Mostar where 14 candidates for regional, nine candidates for approach procedural and airport air traffic controllers and two candidates only for airport air traffic controllers will be trained. In addition, the 73 controllers currently working at the airports in Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Mostar and Tuzla will have training where they will be able to repeat things they already learned, and it will be conducted on the same simulators. The practical part of the training for air traffic controllers will be conducted by GATE Aviation Training instructors together with BHANSA instructors, which will enable the exchange of knowledge and good practice, while ensuring the highest standards of quality and safety, ” Primorac points out.
This successful BHANSA project gains additional importance since it is known that there is a shortage of professional personnel in the field of air traffic control throughout Europe.
