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Customised flight routes can help to limit the rise in global temperatures caused by human activities. If this goal is to be achieved, air traffic management must be automated to a far greater extent than it is today. The ‘Individual and automated air traffic’ (Der individuelle und automatisierte Luftverkehr; DIAL) project recently launched by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) will combine research work over the next four years with the aim of advancing flight guidance automation. This will enable flight planners to offer customised, climate-optimised routes for every aircraft in the sky, avoiding areas in the atmosphere where long-lasting condensation trails might form, for example. Read more…