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ACAS II Monitoring & Interactive Collision Avoidance Simulator - InCAS |
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15.7.3.5 ACAS can have a significant effect on ATC. Therefore, the performance of ACAS in the ATC environment should be monitored.
15.7.3.6 Following a significant ACAS event, pilots and controllers should complete an air traffic incident report.
(Source: PANS-ATM (Procedures for Air Navigation Services - ICAO Doc. 4444 Fifteenth Edition 2007-ATM/501)
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Until December 2006 ACAS monitoring was handled by the ACAS Monitoring Cell in the EUROCONTROL Experimental Centre in Brétigny and the Mode-S and ACAS Programme. This monitoring was established to oversee Phase 2 of ACAS II implementation in Europe (completed in March 2006).
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The ACAS monitoring by EUROCONTROL Experimental Center has been discontinued. The following Monitoring Reports have been published by the ACAS Monitoring Cell:
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However, the EUROCONTROL Member States have agreed that ACAS monitoring should continue in order to identify any safety, technical or procedural issues.
Currently, the ACAS monitoring function is part of the European Safety Programme (ESP) Field 2 – incident reporting and data collection.
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ACAS data has been collected by means of manual reporting (incident reports from airlines and ANSPs) and automated reporting via the Automated Safety Monitoring Tool (ASMT). As of March 2008 the data is automatically collected from one Mode S radar. It is expected that more radars will be added to the scheme very soon.
Manually collected ACAS reports constitute 23.5% of total incidents within the EUROCONTROL Voluntary ATM Incident Reporting (EVAIR) database.
For more information visit:
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EVAIR website |
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or contact:
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Mrs
Dragica
Stankovic
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Interactive Collision Avoidance Simulator - InCAS |
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InCAS is an ACAS simulator, including all features required to analyse aircraft encounters taken from real radar data.
Note: InCAS is not a training tool. For information about ACAS training follow the link to:
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It allows the user to:
• prepare encounters from a number of standard radar track data formats,
•configure ACAS scenarios,
•run or playback ACAS simulations,
•view an ACAS encounter through simulated pilot and controller displays,
•analyse and diagnose ACAS behaviour,
•print hardcopies of the various views of an ACAS simulation.
The flexibility of the InCAS design offers alternative ways to prepare and run simulations. A user can select whether to prepare and run a single ACAS scenario simulation, or to prepare several encounters, and scenarios, to run in sequence as a study simulation.
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InCAS is a PC-based application, requiring Windows 95 or higher operating system.
InCAS is available to qualified stakeholders free of charge.
More information (see the document below)send email to:
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Last validation: 04/02/2009
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