Abstract
This paper presents an analysis of the significance of Air Traffic Control (ATC) simulators in training, and focuses on the development of low cost, high awareness ATC simulator on a 3D virtual environment, using Free and Open Source Aircraft simulator named Flightgear. Here it has proposed a scenario based ATC officer control method covering the all three phases; tower control, approach and enroute control.
Highlights
Air Traffic Controlling (ATC) is a very crucial part in the aviation field around the world
It primarily deals with providing flight related information to aircrafts through radio communications, in order to guide them with take-off, landing and enroute flight, minimizing the risk of collision [1]. This is done by a special crew, who work in ground base station, mostly inside towers adjacent to runaways in the airport. This crew, the ATC actors or ATC controllers, needs to be highly skilled in situation awareness and quick decision making, since correct guidance is necessary for safety and success of air traffic controlling [2]
Such solutions are available as commercial computer simulation systems produced by different vendors. Since these simulators deal with the training of people in highly mission critical environments, they require having good quality in performance and virtualization aspects. As these ATC simulators available in the market are sophisticated commercial solutions with high initial cost, this study was focused on discovering any capability of producing a closer to reality ATC simulator with Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) currently available for flight modeling and simulating which will facilitate the users to customize the solution for their purposes and requirements
Summary
Air Traffic Controlling (ATC) is a very crucial part in the aviation field around the world It primarily deals with providing flight related information to aircrafts through radio communications, in order to guide them with take-off, landing and enroute flight, minimizing the risk of collision [1]. This is done by a special crew, who work in ground base station, mostly inside towers adjacent to runaways in the airport. As these ATC simulators available in the market are sophisticated commercial solutions with high initial cost, this study was focused on discovering any capability of producing a closer to reality ATC simulator with Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) currently available for flight modeling and simulating which will facilitate the users to customize the solution for their purposes and requirements
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