By Tony Goodship, Sales Manager, Micro Nav, Micro Nav Ltd
SubscribeTony Goodship has recently joined Micro Nav as a Sales Manager. He has over 15 years experience in the Air Traffic Control domain.
He started his career in ATC working as a Military ATCO, in the Royal Navy at Portland Air Station in the mid 1980’s. He left the Royal Navy to join Siemens Plessey (now Thales ATM) working on many ATC projects around Europe including Sweden, Portugal, Finland.
Whilst at Siemens Plessey he worked with controllers from various countries from within Europe creating a series of user-groups in order to design HMI’s for Tower, Approach, and En-route ATC environments. Whilst at Siemens Plessey he also provided support to both the bid and sales team in bring new business into the company.
He left Siemens Plessey to join NATS in the late 1990’s on a consultancy basis. Whilst at NATS he ran a project called EPS (Elimination of Paper Strips). The objective of the project was to create an environment that would eliminate the need for paper strips in an En-route ATC centre. Whilst at NATS he also provided support to many ‘other’ NATS initiatives, such as Approach sequencing tools, Multi-sector coordination tool-set, and various joint Eurocontrol/NATS projects, such as flow-management concepts etc.
Tony has primary responsibility for Military ATC systems within Micro Nav, which includes Fighter Control. Micro Nav have recently successfully commissioned a Fighter Control simulator for the Royal Navy, at RNSFC Yeovilton.
Micro Nav have a fifteen year track record of producing and supporting ATC simulators for training and research programmes. For further information on air traffic control and fighter control simulators, please contact Tony on tonygoodship@micronav.co.uk