A 24 hours Traffic Load Prediction Device ?
Wow ! That would be impressive !
Would this device predict CBs, turbulence, unavailability of a runway (or of an ILS), or ash clouds, snow, passengers showing late, technical problems before or after departure... executive jets filing their FPL only 2 hours before departure ?
I usually don't know the kind of clearance I will give more than 10 minutes in advance...
More seriously, France already used such devices 20 years ago :
-PREVI was used for slot allocation and real time statistics.
-IMAGE was a real time image of the actual traffic.
-COURAGE was an help to predict the traffic and implement flow management procedures (more than 24 hours before)
-PRESAGE is a mix of all this and looks pretty much like the CHMIs we can see in any FMP in Europe.
We still use PREVI and CHMI on parallel.
All these devices existed in France before CFMU was implemented (late 80's, early 90'... last century !).
