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Additional services, partners and subsidiaries
In addition to its core business of providing air traffic control, DFS offers other services in the field of air traffic. For example, DFS experts prepare and distribute statistics and publications such as charts and the German AIP containing all information required for air traffic. DFS uses its technical know-how to sell its systems such as Phoenix or 4-D Planner on the international market and is also setting up technical air navigation services facilities in other countries from Europe to the Middle East. At its Air Navigation Services Academy in Langen, DFS not only trains its upcoming air traffic controllers, but also flight data specialists and briefing officers. Technicians and engineers are also trained there to work on state-of-the-art air traffic control systems. The air navigation services organisations of Croatia, Italy and the Netherlands, to name a few, avail of the know-how and technology of the Academy to train their air traffic controllers. European Satellite Services Provider (ESSP) DFS is developing the European satellite navigation system EGNOS in cooperation with six other European air navigation services organisations. It is represented by its DFS European Satellite Services Provider Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH, making financial contributions and providing infrastructure facilities. LINK FCS Flight Calibration Service GmbH Calibration flights are performed to guarantee the precision of the signals transmitted by air traffic control systems. DFS holds a stake in the company FCS Flight Calibration Services, which is headquartered in Braunschweig, along with the Swiss air navigation services, skyguide, and the Austrian air navigation services, Austro Control. FCS is a competent and reliable partner in all flight calibration issues. LINK GroupEAD EUROCONTROL, the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation, set up the European Aeronautical Information Service Database to provide standardised worldwide aeronautical information. DFS and the Spanish air navigation services organisation (AENA) and an Austrian manufacturer of air traffic control systems were commissioned to jointly create this database. For this purpose, the partners founded GroupEAD Europe S.L., which has its headquarters in Madrid and an operational centre in Frankfurt. LINK The Tower Company The world of the air navigation services is changing — from a technical, operational and political point of view. DFS has responded to this challenge by establishing a subsidiary called The Tower Company. Since summer 2007, it has been in charge of air traffic control services at nine regional airports in Germany. The customers of The Tower Company include the four major regional airports of Frankfurt-Hahn, Dortmund, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden and Paderborn/Lippstadt. The Tower Company also controls air traffic at the airports of Niederrhein-Weeze, Mönchengladbach, Memmingen, Altenburg-Nobitz and Schwerin-Parchim. LINK
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