Nicky Hirst
Top 5 blog post of 2015
23 December 2015We thought we’d share our favourite aviation blogs from 2015 with you. Is there something you would like us to cover in 2016? Which was your personal favourite blog we posted from 2015?
A busy day: #FlyFriday
27 July 2015Friday 24th July was expected to be the busiest day of the year. Rather than just looking at statistics for the day we thought it would be interesting to put some faces to those who flew on #FlyFriday.
Safety is always a key consideration and Aberdeen has supported the adoption of Wide Area Multilateration technology, which uses signals from transmitters and receivers fitted to oil and gas platforms to track offshore flights.
Hear what John Millar, NATS’ General Manager at Aberdeen Airport, has to say about the service his team provides to both fixed wing aircraft and the numerous helicopters in the latest Tower Tour video.
No two days are the same for the ATCOs and other staff at Heathrow tower. The main challenge is to make sure that all these flights arrive and depart safely and on time. It’s a demanding job, so much so that it can take up to three years to ‘go solo’ as a Heathrow controller.
Top 10 #NATS365 pictures
30 December 2014The #NATS365 hashtag has been used on different social media platforms since September 2014 as a means of sharing some of our favourite pictures.
Do you have a picture you would like to share with us? If so please feel free to contact me as I am always looking for more aviation related images to share with people.
The results are in – blog survey results
5 November 2014Thank you to everyone who completed our blog survey. We had hundreds of replies which will help us to provide more of the type of blogs our readers want to see, in their preferred formats and covering the most popular subjects. The results are in!
Introducing #NATS365
1 September 2014With the launch of #NATS365 today, Monday 1st September, we will be sharing a photo each day for a year to help provide a greater insight into various different aspects and areas of our business.
Your opinion of our blog matters
28 May 2014As our blog approaches its first anniversary we’d like to learn more about you, our readers to help us publish the stories you want to read.
Missing Airport Live?
2 December 2013Are you longing to sit and watch Airport Live when you settle in front of your TV, especially during these winter months? If so, we thought you would enjoy re-visiting our favourite clips from the show, which BBC2 has just put live.
Historical Heathrow – some photos from our archives
17 June 2013We’ve been delving through the archives and uncovered some great old photographs of air traffic control at Heathrow in the 1940s and 50s. We thought you might like to see them.