Air Traffic Control System

1. Air Traffic Control System Team #3

2. Introduction • The purpose of air-traffic control is to assure safe separation between en-route aircraft and the safe and efficient handling of aircraft operations at airports. • The scope of this project will be to express the Air Traffic Control System Design in UML and implement with ObjecTime.

3. The ATCS will consist of five modules: • Data Acquisition Module. • Communication Module. • Graphic User Interface Module [GUI]. • Mass Storage Module. • Processing Module.

5. Input Requirements • Acquire data and convert them for controller. • Handle data inputs from a maximum of 25 long range and short-range radar input. • Handle new radar track information arriving every 5 seconds. • Primary and secondary radar must be chosen for each aircraft in case of multiple radar hits. • Handle flight plans from other Centers, flight service stations, and bulk flight plan storage.

6. Output Requirements • Center and sector boundaries. • Arrival and departure routes. • Track data and current aircraft positions. • Flight plans including aircraft data. (such as aircraft ID, reported altitude, assigned altitude, ground speed) • Metering, arrival, and departure lists. • Weather information. • Electronic flight strips.

7. Output Requirements • Any and all aircraft (that is, flight, track, display, and controller input) information. • Internal process functionality. • Inter-process communication. (sent or received data) • Inter-Center and inter­Tracon communications. (sent or received data)

8. Input/Output Requirements • Send and receive data from surrounding Centers, Tracons, and Towers. • Weather information can be used later for track prediction and to be displayed to the controller. • Center­to­Center and Center­to­Tracon communications for exchanging flight plans. • Tracon to Tracon communications when an airplane is not entering Center's airspace. • Provide arrival and departure lists and flight plan or track information for other Center.