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Heathrow Virtual Contingency Facility

Heathrow Virtual Contingency Facility is a contingency facility: a backup position for use when the main tower is unavailable. NATS unveiled the world's first approved remote ATC contingency facility in 2009.

What the sources say

NATS unveiled the world's first approved remote ATC contingency facility in 2009.https://www.nats.aero/news/worlds-first-approved-remote-atc-contingency-facility-unveiled/
NATS and Searidge run a Digital Tower Laboratory in the Heathrow tower.https://www.nats.aero/news/elevate/april-22/crossing-the-chasm-how-digital-towers-joined-the-mainstream/

Timeline

2009
Contingency facility unveiled

Connections

Lines join each airport to the centre that controls it. Basemap: OpenStreetMap data via Protomaps.

Searidge Technologies NATS

Other sites in United Kingdom

NATS Swanwick Digital Tower Centre London City Airport Cranfield Airport RNAS Predannack RNAS Culdrose Manchester Airport (hybrid digital tower) Farnborough Airport (hybrid digital tower) Inverness (HIAL Combined Surveillance Centre)

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At a glance

ICAO: EGLL
Country: United Kingdom
Type: Contingency facility
Vendor: Searidge
Provider: NATS
Status: Operational
Position: 51.471, -0.460

Sources

2 public sources: nats.aero, nats.aero.

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