Tern Systems Inc has signed a development contract with Norwegian Special Mission AS to develop and supply a UNIFIS 3000 Navaids Flight Inspection System tailored for the Icelandic environment.

This Flight Inspection System will be installed in the Beech King Air 200 owned and operated by the Icelandic Civil Aviation Administration.
The Flight Inspection System will be a comprehensive flying laboratory covering Flight inspection of Navaids, Communication, and Radars as well as advanced environmental surveillance and monitoring of glaciers and turbulence.
The ICAA will use the System for calibration of its entire CNS/ATM environment including the ICAA part of the North Atlantic Tracks (NAT) bridging North America with Europe. 

The system is planned to be operational early 2006.

Further information about Norwegian Special Mission AS projects can be found on their website: www.unifis.no

Today the Tern Systems Radio Operator - FDPS became operational at the Gannet ATS Communication Centre (Iceland Radio), Reykjavik. The system is an ATS message handling system specially designed to provide ATS radio operators support for air-ground and ground-ground communications.

The RO-FDPS directly supports AFTN message communication and aids radio operators in the ground-air message delivery and the creation of new AFTN messages. It processes all flight related messages, in addition to weather messages and regional messages such as the North Atlantic Track (NAT) messages.

The RO-FDPS includes a geographical view displaying flights and routes, increasing situational awareness of the Radio Operator.

The RO-FDPS also has a SELCAL encoder, a software module which manages transmission of SELCAL tones. The SELCAL encoder is also available as a standalone product.

The RO-FDPS was successfully installed at 8 Radio Operator workstations, 1 supervisor workstation and 3 training workstations.

Further information about Gannet, Iceland Radio can be found on their website: www.gannet.is.