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17th Dec 2004, 12:03
Last week I attended a conference, during which was presented a briefing on ATOP (http://www.alaska.faa.gov/ATOP/) implementation in Oakland, Anchorage and New York Oceanic airspace.
It is awesome!
Controllers sit at workstations that are "stripless" and have such features as Conflict Probe and Data Link to work aircraft over the "Deep Ocean" airspace. They see targets just as if there were a radar antenna every couple hundred miles all across the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. It is truly a revolution in how we control airplanes!
The thing that makes it more exciting - the whole thing was initially developed in New Zealand; it was an excellent advance in technology and the rest of the world is jumping on the bandwagon. The training in the U.S., for example, is a cooperative effort between American and New Zealand controllers with many classes being taught by the "Kiwi's." It's a splendid example of how international cooperation works for the benefit of all!
ATC 24/7 (http://atcea.com)
It is awesome!
Controllers sit at workstations that are "stripless" and have such features as Conflict Probe and Data Link to work aircraft over the "Deep Ocean" airspace. They see targets just as if there were a radar antenna every couple hundred miles all across the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. It is truly a revolution in how we control airplanes!
The thing that makes it more exciting - the whole thing was initially developed in New Zealand; it was an excellent advance in technology and the rest of the world is jumping on the bandwagon. The training in the U.S., for example, is a cooperative effort between American and New Zealand controllers with many classes being taught by the "Kiwi's." It's a splendid example of how international cooperation works for the benefit of all!
ATC 24/7 (http://atcea.com)