Air Traffic Control software implemented in RADAR

Abstract

This study presents the flight plan data related to aircraft performance and is tested against the aircraft performance database. The Significant Meteorological Information Reports - SIGMET will be generated by the system according to the selected turbulence areas by attaching different AIS data to an exercise that can change the simulation objectives. The exercise must be assigned to one or more courses to be able to attach meteorological data when viewing a data recording; changes can be made to the aircraft as in a normal exercise run, while the other instructions will be loaded from the recorded data file. A data recording is airspace dependent, changing the airspace can make the data recording fail during playback. Video Recording is only available for the RADAR Simulator. A video recording can be made at any time during a simulation session; a data recording can be selected only at the beginning of the simulation session and cannot be started during the simulation session; if the simulator is integrated with the Voice Communication System and the audio channels, then a sound recording window will automatically pop-up. For this study, an ideal case, for the configuration presentation we will assume that the 3D Tower Simulator is composed of 4 LCD/Projectors to create the out-of-the-window view, 180 degrees, 2 Pseudo-Pilots, and 1 Supervisor/FEEDER Position. The 4 image generators will be provided by SIM01, SIM02, SIM03, and SIM04. The Pseudo-Pilots positions will be provided by SIM05 and SIM06. The Supervisor/Feeder Position will be provided by SIM07. For the Tower Controller Working Positions, we will provide the following information displays: DE – Flight Data Equipment/Clearance Delivery, MET – Meteorological Information, LCP –Lights Control Panel, and a RADAR Image. Station SIM08 will be used. Stations SIM01, SIM02, SIM03, and SIM04 are equipped with one large LCD Display or a Projector; Stations SIM05 and SIM07 are equipped with 2 monitors, one for the RADAR Image and the other one for the bird-eye view over the airport; Station SIM06 is equipped with one monitor for the bird-eye view over the airport; Station SIM08 is equipped with 4 monitors providing all necessary information for the Tower Controller Working Positions. SIM07, as presented above, is the FEEDER/SUPERVISOR for the RADAR Simulator, the approach sector is “TMA” and the application will be started on the second monitor, the first monitor is used for the 3D Tower Simulator. SIM07 is also FEEDER/SUPERVIZOR for the 3D Tower Simulator, the station function will be “3DTWR” and the sector will be the previously created 3D Tower configuration, “TOWER”. On SIM08 will add a RADAR Image for the Tower Controller Working Positions, sector is “TMA”, the application will be started on monitor 4, and the station function is “TWR”. Usually, for an aircraft departing from an airport inside an approach sector, the first owner will be the tower until passing the maximum flight level/ altitude for the tower, the second owner will be the approach sector and the third owner will be the en-route sector. In this case, the tower sector has power over the approach sector, and the en-route sector, the approach sector has power over the en-route sector. The outside FIR sectors will be used in the determination of the next en-route sector, for coordination purposes. If the VFR points do not appear on the RADAR Map after the “DRAW” button has been pushed, use the “MAP MENU” – “VFR” button. The aircraft performance database is not airspace structure dependent. When a new airspace structure is created the aircraft performance database will remain unchanged.

Keywords

• atc
• atm
• fms
• flight simulator