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Welcome As we all know winter operations continually
challenge airports, service providers and airlines.
The fluctuating severity of the weather and
the impact of environmental improvements all
go toward making the challenge even greater.
Passengers now expect to arrive and depart
punctually, even in severe conditions, and with
the highest degree of safety, without question.
Improvements in Instrument Landing Systems
and aircraft performance over the last 20 years
have enabled aircraft to operate in almost any
condition and airports have been looking at
innovative ways of being able to manage operations
safely and timely, to keep up.
At Stansted we have improved our winter
operations plan each year trying to learn from each
experience and implement the findings for future
events. Of course equipment is a fundamental
Nick Millar
part of any airports ability to combat ice and
Head of Airside at
snowfall and we are no different. We have invested
London Stansted Airport for MAG
significantly following the Begg report in 2010, and
continue to do so. This is always a balance in the
UK, particularly in the South East as we experience
active snowfall, on average, around 10 days a year in
our area. However, to ensure we maintain business
as usual, at an extremely busy single runway airport,
the investment is essential.
Anti-icing/de-icing is more of a regular issue in
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the UK with our maritime climate of precipitation
in the day and freezing at night. Improvements in
equipment allow us to understand the conditions
live through temperature and surface containment
Welcome from P3
sensors on our runway. These help operational
Stansted Airport
managers treat the surfaces at the right time, with
the right product. We estimate using these systems
Programme P6
and reducing the concentration of the anti-icing
media applied we have reduced our application
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rates by around 40% over the last 3 years.
Attending International conferences such as
Airside Winter Safety World and visiting more
experienced airports to learn best practices
have also significantly helped, mainly in snow
clearing techniques, reducing the amount of time
required on the runway to sweep. This Cleary
helps operations, and we are more confident in
timings which helps the Air Traffic Service vector
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aircraft with confidence, and helps Ground Service
providers de-ice aircraft expeditiously.
Regulation plays its part with the CAA
recognising the industry must improve its response
and London Stansted was a key player in the
Runway Surface Contamination trial introduced
in 2011. Following the successful trial this is now
embedded in our winter plan.
In 2014 we installed four Remote de-icing pads
on the manoeuvring area. These can be used for live
aircraft, reducing the impact on OTP and improving
the airlines ability to depart with improved hold-
over times, another facility we decided to install
after we learnt from others experiences.
All of the above becomes insignificant if you
do not have a structured Command & Control
system and this remains a focus for us going into
every winter. We have developed this over time
to deliver a consistent airport wide response in
any event, including communicating to ensure all
airport business partners are playing their part in
the plan. In any event resource is hugely important
and this is also a fundamental part of our plan, with
training commencing in August each year. Again,
we implement the learnings from other airports
here, with professional drivers used for the more
technical equipment.
As an airport London Stansted continues to
grow, passing 23 million passengers in the last
financial year, with over 173,000 aircraft movements
on a single runway. To continue delivering an
excellent airfield service we will look at further
ways of improving our winter plan, including;
using technology in our equipment with web
based products that help us see our equipment
in the live environment, to send it where it is
needed expeditiously. Snow clearing techniques
and equipment to recover to business as usual
quicker, and building new infrastructure with winter
operations at the forefront of our thinking.
Undoubtedly passengers and airlines
expectations will grow as each year passes, and a
total airport wide effort will be required in every
event to deliver the right product, and this remains
our ultimate goal.
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Programme Day 1
07:45 - 08:15 Approach to maintaining fleet equipment
Delegate registration Simon Diggins, Babcock International
Radisson Blu Hotel, London Stansted Airport
How do you procure winter equipment,
08:20 services and technology
Coach transfer to venue Facilitated session on Questionnaire feedback

09:00 - 09:30 12:15 14:30

Welcome Introductions and overview Lunch on the Ramp Supplier table tops, equipment
Exhibition & Demonstrations
Chairmans Welcome and conference overview
Live narrated demonstrations including:
Winter and Safety introduction. Vestergaard, Inland, John Deere, Bunce, Metal Pless,
London Stansted Airport JCAII, Snocom...

Maintaining a safe Aerodrome through And exhibited equipment including:

regulation & Partnership Team Eagle, Schmidt, Overaarsen, Global Ground Support,
Vasileios Stefanioros, EASA JBT, SIB Brushtech, LNT Solutions, Raiko...

09:30 10:15 14:30 15:30

Session 1: Winter ops supporting IT, technology and Innovation
Plenary Speaker Safety starts in the sky presentations

Managing the airspace in Winter disruption A The forecast: Open Runways overview
NATS Met Office

UK and North America Winter 2015/16 Why, What & How B Using technology for co-ordinating snow
James Shapland, Met Office removal operations
Richard Oakes, London Heathrow Airport
10:15 11:00
Session 2: C De-icing allocation and task management:
Using MET systems to improve awareness in deliver safety, Ice-link & Bay Manager
minimising disruption and achieving operational cost saving JCAII

Balancing operational efficiency and cost whilst D Airline and Airport De-icing information Service
ensuring flight safety: Utilising automated De-icing The paperless Hold Over Time tables
Information Services Mike Chaput, SureWx
Cpt. Jason Brown, Air Canada
E New Aircraft De-icing simulator
Runway Weather Information System (RWIS) An Overview Jeff Walsh, Global Ground Support
Dublin Airport
F Managing Runway Conditions Assessment reports
11:00 - 11:20 Leonard Taylor, Tradewind Scientific
BREAK and Table Top Exhibition
G Snow compression
11:20 12:15 Henk Arntz, Snocom
Session 3:
Strategies for Procuring and maintaining Winter Equipment, 15:45 - 16:00
Services and Technologies Review of day & Transfer to Hotel

Considerations when choosing Poly/steel brushes and 19:30

plough edge type. Best practices for maximising Delegate Dinner
effectiveness and life expectancy
Cecil Dahlberg, SIB Brushtech
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Programme Day 2
08:20 Future technologies and innovations in PAD de-icing
Coach transfer to venue Neil Pritchard, London Heathrow Airport/SAE

09:00 10:00 14:15 15:15

Chairmans welcome, review of day 1 and plenary speaker
The Witness Experience: What happens if you find
yourself or organisation in a legal challenge
Andy Smith, Witness Experience
Session 7:
Managing the impacts of winter on our environment
Latest case studies in environmental treatment
Swedavia / Vilokan

10:00-10:45 Collaboration trials in blending of Glycol - On board blending

Session 4: Kelvin Williamson, LNT Solutions
Runway Safety and the Friction Panel discussion
UK Aviation collaboration for managing Glycol
Using on board Aircraft technology to report braking action environmental impact
Logan Jones, AIRBUS UK Glycol recovery project

Overview on regulatory approval for surface friction 15:15 15:45

assessment and technologies Session 8:
Steve McKeown, Transport Canada overview to ICAO The People cycle:

Open questions & Panel Discussion on current pavement How do you recruit, manage, train, activate, deploy and
condition reporting retain a work force of contractors.
Inc. Leonard Taylor Tom Jones / Mark Devonald, Dyer & Butler

10:50 - 11:15 16:00

BREAK and Table Top Exhibition Review & Close

11:15 12:30
Session 5:
Winter operations plan and sharing learnings and events

Winter operations strategy at a large EU Hub.

Michel Landelle, Charles de Gaulle Airport

Shutting the airport that does not shut

Bruce Goetz, Denver International Airport

Winter ops strategy at a smaller UK airport.

Nick Millar, London Stansted Airport

12:30 - 13:15
Lunch and Table Top Exhibition

13:15 - 14:15
Session 6:
Aircraft de-icing:

Insourcing the largest de-icing operation in the world

Michael Blanger, Greater Toronto Airports Authority

Developments of a new de-icing pad and volume de-icing

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Speakers
Bruce goetz
Denver International Airport
Bruce Goetz is the Director of Airside
Operations at Denver International Airport
(DEN).
He is responsible for the Airside Operations
and Ramp Tower functions at DEN. The
airfield snow removal program, deice pad
allocation, Aerobahn Deice tool manager, and
FAA/airline coordination are all part of his
groups responsibilities.
Bruce has been working at airports for 24
years, starting his aviation career at Paine
Field Airport in Everett Washington, where the
Boeing company builds all of their wide body
jets, the 747, 767, 777 and 787.
Cecil Dahlberg
SIB Brushtech
Born in Sweden 1967, Cecil Dahlberg
graduated in 1994 from Chalmers University
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of Technology, and obtained a Masters
degree in Mechanical Engineering. After
graduation Cecil Dahlberg joined ABB
Atom, a nuclear company, where he worked
as a Project Manager with nuclear safety
systems. In January 2000 he changed fields
and joined ABB Process Automation, an
automation company, assigned as Manager
for R&D Projects for steel mills. Cecil
Dahlberg became Engineering Manager for
SIB Brushtech in November 2008 and was
appointed Managing Director of the company
in June 2012.
James Shapland
Met Office
I studied at Southampton University with a
BSc in Oceanography, and then at Reading
University completing a MSc in Applied
Meteorology. In 2005, I joined the Met Office
as a forecaster, and completed Royal Air
Force officer training at RAF Cranwell in 2006.
I was posted to RAF Brize Norton where I
operated as a defence forecaster, deploying
to Iraq and Afghanistan a an RAF reservist to
support UK and NATO operations by giving
guidance in meteorology. At the beginning of
2011, I left the Met Office to go the Bureau of
Meteorology in Australia, to be embedded
within Qantas Airlines, aiding in reducing
the impacts of the weather on the Qantas
schedule, whilst improving efficiencies. During
the summer of 2012, I returned to the Met
Office, being based at Heathrow airport as a
forecaster, before taking on the role as the
Operations Manager in May 2014 - aiding
Heathrow airport reduce delays through
meteorological advise, and enabling airlines
to run maximised schedules during
weather events.
Kelvin Williamson
LNT Solutions
Mr. Kelvin Williamson is currently the
President of LNT Solutions (innovative
deicing technology). Mr. Williamson began
his aviation career working for a number
of commercial airlines which lead him
to becoming the Chief Pilot for Voyager
Airlines. Mr. Williamson spent the next
10 years working for Transport Canada
as a Boeing 737 Check Pilot & Air Carrier
Inspector and was responsible for the initial
Government approval of the Toronto Central
Deicing Facility. With a return to line flying
Mr. Williamson flew internationally as a
Boeing 727 Captain for All Canada Express.
Subsequently, Mr. Williamson accepted a
position as General Manager - Toronto Central
Deicing Facility. As an SAE member since
1993, Mr. Williamson is currently the Chair of
the G12 SAE Deicing Facilities Committee.
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Speakers
Logan Jones
AIRBUS
Logan Jones is an aircraft performance
engineer working at Airbus. Graduating from
the University of Alberta with a Bachelor
in Mechanical Engineering, he then went on
to get his Masters and PhD in Aeronautical
Engineering at ISAE in Toulouse, France. His
PhD thesis was on Modeling Runway Friction
for Aircraft Tires. For the past 8 years at
Airbus, he has been involved in the design and
certification of Airbus ROPS and automatic
braking action projects and now is part of
Airbus Customer Services team working
on providing technologies to customers to
improve safety at landing.
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Michael Blanger
Greater Toronto Airports Authority
Michael Blanger currently holds the position
of Director - Aviation Programs & Compliance
at Greater Toronto Airports Authority. Over
the last 14 years Michael has also held the
following position s with GTAA,
Manager - Aviation Programs, Manager -
Airfield Regulation & Audit, Apron Operations
Officer, Manager - Special Projects,
Aviation Standards Officer, Security
Compliance Officer and Security Patrol
& Response Officer.
Michel Landelle
Paris Aroport Charles de Gaulle for Groupe ADP
Michel Landelle is Senior Manager Winter
Services Airside at Paris Aroport Charles
de Gaulle for Groupe ADP including Aircraft
deicing, snow clearing operations and
logistics.
Throughout his 30 years of experience in the
Business, Michel explored many aspects of
the Industry, holding various positions and
responsibilities in airline operations, airport
handling, aircraft leasing and sales.
Before he took over his present position at
CDG, he was Airports Director for the state
owned company RVA in Kinshasa, DRC no
need to say that taking over Winter Services
in Paris was quite a change!
Michel has a Master in Politics.
Neil Pritchard
Airside at Heathrow
Neil Pritchard is an Aviation professional with
8 years experience at the worlds busiest
International airport Heathrow.
Neil currently leads Strategy and
Development for Airside at Heathrow,
driving optimizations in safety, efficiency
and punctuality that are required in Airspace,
Surface Movement and Ground Operations
to meet the 25-year Master Plan through
process, infrastructure and technology
projects.
Prior to this role, Neil was Head of Airside
during 2011, the key function of this role was
the accountability for Airside Operations,
including Airside Safety Department, Winter
Operations, Airfield Asset, Maintenance &
Facilities. Neil succeeded in this role from
Operations Manager for Airside. During
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this time leading the implementation and
development of the Tarsier Automated FOD
detection system
Neil has also spent 2 years as an Airport
Duty Manager, leading and coordinating the
daily operations at Heathrow - terminals,
security, baggage, airfield, engineering and
landside. During this time, he lead
Heathrows response for many Airport
operational incidents including the BA038
Aircraft accident.
Nick Millar
London Stansted Airport for MAG
Currently I am the Head of Airside at London
Stansted Airport for MAG. Previous to
the that I was responsible for the Airfield
Operations team. I have worked in the
Aviation industry for 25 years with ground
handling agents and airport authorities.
I have experienced winter operations at
many airports, both as a service provider,
including de-icing and as an airport authority
responsible for returning the airport to
normal operations. I have seen first-hand
the changes in expectations and then
performance in winter operations over that
time and feel strongly these experiences have
helped me understand the challenges faced
by the industry.
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Simon Diggins
Babcock International Group
Developing and delivering GSE support
solutions for Airlines, Airports, and Ground
Handlers around the world utilising
international business experience from the
aviation, military and logistics industries. Also
working across the wider Babcock business
producing solutions and proposals for
baggage system improvements, introduction
of Standard 3 baggage screening machines
into airports, and through-life operations and
maintenance for baggage systems.
Steve Allaway
International Implementation Manager
35 years experience in GSE and Fleet
management, having been responsible
for the management of Babcocks UK
operations at Heathrow, Gatwick and
Edinburgh. Currently responsible for the
operational implementation of international
GSE contracts working with the in-country
teams to ensure that the necessary facilities,
resources and skills sets are available,
developed and transferred.
Steve Mckeown
Team Eagle
Steve co-founded the Team Eagle companies
in 1975 and over the last 40 years has been
providing airfield equipment and runway
condition reporting technologies to airports
in over 100 countries around the world. Steve
entered into the current dialogue about global
runway conditions reporting when Eagle was
asked to assist in the investigation into the
tragic Midway Southwest Flight 1248 overrun
in December 2005 by the Air Canada Pilots
Association, to assist the Southwest Airlines
Pilots Association in their investigation.
Since 2005 Team Eagle has worked with
several of the worlds aviation stakeholders
like the FAA, Transport Canada, Air Canada,
WestJet, Ottawa and Waterloo International
Airports, Waterloo University and many,
many more, to better understand what
happens when aircraft tires hit the runway,
and what pilots want and need to know about
that. He wants to thank Transport Canada
and Heathrow for sponsoring Team Eagles
participation in this conference as well as all
of the participants for this opportunity to
share our thoughts on the many challenges
we face, and the opportunities the industry is
working on to safely meet as many of them as
we can.
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