The Air Traffic Management (ATM) system features an Electronic Flight Strip system, designed to automate flight plan workflows for controllers. The electronic flight strips system is designed to mimic the look and feel of analogue strip boards. This system is highly configurable, allowing each working position to be set up with its own set of Electronic flight strips fields and bays, tailored to specific operational procedures and regulations.
Key Capabilities
- Aircraft Track Label Integration: Selection of an aircraft track label highlights the corresponding aircraft e-strip, and vice versa. Changes to aircraft information are consistently reflected in both the aircraft track label and the associated e-strip.
- Automatic Data Updates: Received flight plan telegrams automatically update data in the corresponding e-strip data fields.
- Conflict Alerts: Safety Nets, such as STCA, and other conflict alerts are simultaneously indicated in both the aircraft track label and the corresponding e-strip.
Interface Description
The electronic flight strips system window is organised into customisable strip bays, with each bay reflecting the current state of the flight. The layout of the electronic flight strips system window can be configured differently for each working position, depending on the role and configuration of the working position.
The electronic flight strips system toolbar, located at the bottom of the window, provides access to main system menus and functions.
- Menu Button: Opens the main settings window, allowing users to select full-screen/window mode, adjust the electronic flight strips system window layout, and access other settings.
- Search Function: Enables users to search for e-strips of aircraft that are either live or archived.
- Logbook: Allows users to browse through EFS system logs and access the e-strips history.
- Objects: Allows users to add ground aerodrome objects.
- Archive: Opens a window containing processed e-strips for a configurable period.
- Undo: Reverts the last action performed by a user on an e-strip, with each click undoing one action.
- Break: Used to deviate from the standard technological sequence, with a red border appearing around the EFS system window when activated.
- About: Replaces all content of the e-strip with corresponding labels when pressed and held.
- Day/Night Colour Theme: Toggles between day and night colour themes for the EFS window.
- Working Position Role and Time: Displays the current time and the role of the working position.
Strip Bays
The electronic flight strips system window layout varies depending on the role of the working position.
- Tower Strip Bays: Include bays for pre-active arriving and departing aircraft, assumed arriving and departing aircraft, and departed aircraft.
- Approach Strip Bays: Include bays for pre-active, assumed, and transferred aircraft.
- ACC Strip Bays: Include the same bays as the approach strip bays: pre-active, assumed, and transferred aircraft.
EFS Appearance and Fields
The e-strip’s graphical representation varies in form and colour based on the type of flight, working position role, strip bay, and special indications or alerts. Data fields within the e-strip are highlighted in yellow when updated. E-strips for arriving aircraft have a green-coloured background, while those for departing aircraft have a blue-coloured background.
Interacting with EFS Fields
The electronic flight strips system allows users to interact with e-strip fields to assign flight level (FL), SQUAWK, SID/STAR, parking position, runway, ground speed, and heading, as well as to add remarks and coordinate transfers. E-strips also provide alert indications for potential or severe conflicts and special SSR codes.
