AMAN DMAN System
Maestro is an arrival/departure flights sequencing system - AMAN DMAN - and a multi-airport and multi-runway decision making tool designed to manage approach operations on airports.
On this page we focus on one of Egis Avia's Air traffic control - ATC - systems: MAESTRO AMAN DMAN
MAESTRO AMAN DMAN
Maestro is a multi-airport and multi-runway decision making tool designed to manage approach operations on airports. The system enables:
- an optimum utilisation of airspace and runway capacity by distributing the workload associated to arrival and departure control among En-Route, Approach and ground-based controllers involved
- minimised delays
- reduced fuel consumption, hence reduced environmental footprint
In this perspective, the system provides En-Route, Approach and Tower controllers with graphical views of the computed sequence and the control actions which have to be taken accordingly. Throughout this process, controllers keep the sequence operations well in hand as Maestro enables them to make manual changes in order to test different sequencing options.
Arrival Management - AMAN
- interfaces with the local Flight Data Processing System ( FDPS ) and Radar Data Processing System ( RDPS )
- keeps record of arrival flight plans from the local and of radar tracks
- allocates each incoming aircraft to a destination runway in accordance with geographic runway allocation rules, runway restrictions associated with noise reduction procedures, selected Terminal Control Area (TMA) configuration and runway separations and flight priorities
- calculates the optimum scheduled time of arrival at TMA entry fix and at runway threshold and the delays to be absorbed to comply with this scheduled time
- optimises the overall sequence in order to minimise delays and holding pattern situations
- displays the sequence on every controller’s position involved and provides them with En-Route and Approach advice on the actions to take to absorb these delays
- generates automatic coordination messages to relevant positions when the sequence is modified by one of the controllers
Departure Management - DMAN
- interfaces with local Flight Data Processing System (FDPS), Advanced Surface Movement Guidance and Control System (A-SMGCS), Air Traffic Flow Control Management (ATFCM) and airport external systems (based on A-CDM)
- keeps record of departure flight plans , ground tracks, Central Flow Management Unit - CFMU - slots and aircraft operators priorities
- assigns each aircraft a departure runway and the corresponding holding point according to off-line runway allocation rules and information shared with the AMAN function (runway separations and configuration, closures, arrival sequence)
- computes take-off times according to the Estimated Off-Block Time, slot constraints and average taxiing time parameterised off-line of provided by the A-SMGCS
- plans and optimises the departure sequence for each runway according to flight priorities, runway constraints and arrival flights
- displays the computed sequence on Tower, Approach and En-Route relevant controller’s position thus providing a global view of the departure traffic to every actor involved
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