ENCHANCING SURFACE MANAGEMENT & TOWER AUTOMATION
- Fully integrated ATC tower system providing complete surveillance and monitoring of aircraft and vehicles
- Improved safety and efficiency, and optimized capacity performance in the airport environment
- Conflict prediction and alerts to controllers
- Intuitive, easy to use system allowing controllers to make quick and accurate decisions
- Seamless operations with silent coordination within the tower cab or adjacent approach units
- Reduced controller workload by correlating surveillance and flight plan information
INTEGRATED GATE-TO-GATE SOLUTION
- Thales’s offer: a complete array of communication, navigation, surveillance and air traffic management systems to provide a fully integrated gate-to-gate solution
- Integration of TopSky - Tower with TopSky - ATC to ensure seamless coordination between tower and approach control
KEY FEATURES
- Easily adaptable to different tower configuration layout, workflow, touch screen)
- High level of automation supporting both electronic strip board and flight lists to manage flight data through optimised workflow
- A-SMGCS function up to level 4
- Reliable display of the actual traffic situation with positions superimposed on the synthetic airfield map
- Safety nets generating safety threat or conflict alerts in the movement area
- Meteorological conditions and airport equipment status displayed (ATIS letter, QNH, Navigation Aids System status…)
BUILDING THE FUTURE
- Thales: leading industrial contributor to the SESAR Joint Undertaking, actively participating in 39 different airport projects
- Installation of TopSky - Tower as the validation platform for SESAR activities at France’s Charles de Gaulle Airport for validation by the French DSNA
- Solution developed in line with SESAR, making sure it will be fully conform to all future SESAR standards
- All set for the ICAO Aviation System Block Upgrades ready: already meeting Block 0; benefitting in the near future from all the block upgrade capabilities for airport operations