
Unverifiedconfidence low
Tours Val de Loire Airport
Photo of the airport: Duch.seb, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Tours Val de Loire Airport is a remote tower: cameras and sensors at the airport feed controllers who work somewhere else. Frequentis supplies the system; Tours is more than 500 km from Toulouse and was due to go live at the end of 2023.
Caveat. Schedules conflict; no go-live notice found.
The evidence for this entry is old or comes from a single source. Treat the status as unconfirmed.
What the sources say
- Frequentis supplies the system; Tours is more than 500 km from Toulouse and was due to go live at the end of 2023.https://canso.org/france-selects-frequentis-remote-digital-tower/
- French press in December 2022 said the remote tower was planned for installation in 2024.https://www.presse-citron.net/pour-la-premiere-fois-en-france-un-aeroport-va-etre-controle-a-distance/
Timeline
- Jun 2022Selected; first tower due to go live end of 2023
Connections
Lines join each airport to the centre that controls it. Basemap: OpenStreetMap data via Protomaps.
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At a glance
- ICAO
- LFOT
- Country
- France
- Type
- Remote tower
- Vendor
- Frequentis
- Provider
- DSNA
- Status
- Unverified
- Position
- 47.432, 0.728