Area Control Center

By building on the Advanced Flight Data Management (FDM) functions supporting Air Traffic Control, Atom™ provides the following additional features to Area Control Center personnel.

• Flow planning and sector loading for workload prediction.

• Distance based conflict prediction.

• Beacon code a assignment based on 4D trajectory within the ACC and automatically distributed to adjacent Towers and Approach controls by ICAO message.

• AIDC/OLDI coordination with adjacent ACCs, Approach Controls, & Towers.

• Single or multiple strips per flight including colors determined by heading.

• Supervisor can use live system flight data to predict future sector loading in tabular displays and use same information in the situation display in fast-time mode to visualize future traffic patterns and relation to sector loading.

• At controllers’ pre-shift airspace familiarization briefing, use NOTAM_Bene to review text and see visually on electronic map display all current and future NOTAMs affecting the controller’s airspace, including ad-hoc airspace reservations and volcanic ash warnings.

• At time of flight plan processing , Atom™ can determine that airline or aircraft does not have an account with the ACC Airspace Revenue department. If the flight is also determined to be landing at a Cooperating Airport , Atom™ will calculate the en route charge, and automatically send a message to that airport so the en route fee can be collected.

• Produce detailed traffic count statistics.

Interfaces to other systems:

• ATC/ATM interfaces include Approach Control and Oceanic / Procedural.

• Airspace Revenue to capture flight information for revenue and statistics.

The Atom™ Advantage:

Atom™ provides a powerful ACC system with both ATC and ATM features in the same system with automated interfaces to adjacent facilities and revenue and statistics.