Boeing reports that Asia will need 240,000 pilots in next 20 years

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Originally Posted by racedo

https://denver.cbslocal.com/2018/08/...ower-colorado/

yup its at a place with no tower now but 90,000 movements a year.

At the bottom of the article there was another link to the project. If you navigate through to the project technology page, you get this:

The concept behind the Colorado Remote Tower Project is the first of its kind to integrate both satellite-based aircraft surveillance technology together with ground-based video technology. This advanced technological approach is designed to give air traffic controllers a comprehensive view of air traffic on the airfield and in the airspace surrounding an airport - all from a remote location, and only when operational demands necessitate this level of air traffic

This appears to be a remote version of a tower to save money. All that has happened is the controller is physically somewhere remote to the airfield. This was attempted at Alice Springs in 2011, and abandoned with the camera's removed, not sure what the issue was.

There is a big difference between remote control (as we do right now with most ATC, ie Centre, Approach etc) and automation of the actual ATC function.