Andy Mayes
29th Apr 2012, 12:20
Just a quick question for those UK Airports using EFPS.
Does your EFPS let you guys (ATSAs and/or ATCOs) know that an aircraft arriving via airways (or an arrived) aircraft has diverted to you?
e.g the VIP in the back of a bizjet having just entered EGTT decides he wants to go to SS or GW which happens to be one of the flight plan alternates rather than destination SH. The pilot lets TC/AC know this and AC/TC updates the data on NAS to reflect this which I assume generates an EFPS at the appropriate time in the VCR.
Having been handed to the Tower on final, are you aware that you were not the original destination and do you just get the standard EFPS on the screen like all the other arrivals that were planned in?
Obviously a different scenario where technical problems may have instigated the diversion and may have warranted phone calls to the VCR (que the story behind TRUCE) but this question relates solely to those diversions of a non-technical reason and the EFPS at the individual Airport rather than what happens at the centre.
Cheers guys.
Does your EFPS let you guys (ATSAs and/or ATCOs) know that an aircraft arriving via airways (or an arrived) aircraft has diverted to you?
e.g the VIP in the back of a bizjet having just entered EGTT decides he wants to go to SS or GW which happens to be one of the flight plan alternates rather than destination SH. The pilot lets TC/AC know this and AC/TC updates the data on NAS to reflect this which I assume generates an EFPS at the appropriate time in the VCR.
Having been handed to the Tower on final, are you aware that you were not the original destination and do you just get the standard EFPS on the screen like all the other arrivals that were planned in?
Obviously a different scenario where technical problems may have instigated the diversion and may have warranted phone calls to the VCR (que the story behind TRUCE) but this question relates solely to those diversions of a non-technical reason and the EFPS at the individual Airport rather than what happens at the centre.
Cheers guys.