TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Airways NZ and Leidos have
a combined future vision for air
traffic management and are
developing a new ATM system for
New Zealand to improve air traffic
flow management from takeoff to
landing
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include restrictions provide a reduction in
false alarms and reduce controller workload.
SkyLine-X also features an innovative
Human Machine Interface (HMI), giving it a
modern look and feel that provides a highly
intuitive and efficient approach to air traffic
control. Drawing upon operational user
interface concepts and inherently
understood iconography, controller
acceptance and training time are
significantly decreased. The easy-to-use
interaction model coupled with a highly
configurable user interface allows customers
to shape SkyLine-X’s HMI to their needs.
Reaping the benefits
With significant research, SkyLine-X’s
sophisticated algorithms prove to reduce
flight risk and enable three-mile separation
by allowing controllers to monitor and
control airplanes with greater precision over
a greater distance. The system easily
integrates with varied surveillance sources
including short range, long range and surface
radars, multilateration, and ADS-B/C.
In testing, SkyLine-X has shown to
improve throughput, flight efficiency, flight
times, and schedule predictability using fourdimensional
trajectory-based operations,
which automatically inserts SIDs and STARS
and supports RNAV/RNP routes. With fewer
trajectory distortions and operational
medium-term conflict detection, controllers
are able to safely handle more traffic. Using
standards-based, state-of-the-art technology,
the system supports DataComm standards
such as FANS 1A+. SkyLine-X also enables
airports, airlines, and ANSPs to exchange
operational information across flight
information regions. This encourages better,
lower cost information sharing for improved
planning and resolution of ATM-related
disruptions by providing controllers access
to collaboration interfaces directly from
the datablock.
Airports have a need for greater capacity
and increased utilization. The SkyLine Flow
time-based scheduling tool uses metering
points further out from arrival airports, even
across Flight Information Region (FIR)
boundaries, to improve air traffic scheduling
and increase airport capacity.
Using RECAT EU spacing, SkyLine
Approach aims to increase runway