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Amami Airport (remote aerodrome air-ground service)
Photo of the airport: ブルーノ, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Amami Airport (remote aerodrome air-ground service) is a remote aerodrome air-ground (RADIO) service: an officer elsewhere gives advisory information by camera, which is not air traffic control. OKI says Amami began remote RADIO operation on 1 October 2021, with a flight information officer at Naha Airport providing air-ground service through its RVA-19 remote tower device.
Caveat. This is a remote aerodrome air-ground (RADIO) service from Naha, not remote air traffic control. Japan has no remote tower providing control service in the sources reviewed.
What the sources say
- OKI says Amami began remote RADIO operation on 1 October 2021, with a flight information officer at Naha Airport providing air-ground service through its RVA-19 remote tower device.https://www.oki.com/jp/press/2022/02/z21090.html
- A July 2021 trade report describes Japan's remote tower work as research at the Electronic Navigation Research Institute, with a small remote air-ground system serving some low-traffic airports.https://www.jwing.net/news/40463
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Connections
Lines join each airport to the centre that controls it. Basemap: OpenStreetMap data via Protomaps.
At a glance
- ICAO
- RJKA
- Country
- Japan
- Type
- Remote air-ground service (not air traffic control)
- Vendor
- OKI
- Provider
- JCAB
- Status
- Operational
- Regulator
- JCAB
- Position
- 28.431, 129.713