Abstract
Remote tower operation (RTO) research faces a lot of challenges. Working processes of the tower controllers need to be revised just as well as working place design and regulations. In accordance to this great bandwidth of design and adaption works, a development and validation platform is of substantial need. Among the validation tools recommended by the European Operational Concept Validation Methodology (E-OCVM), simulations play a crucial role. Within the present chapter, three aspects of simulation experiments are presented and discussed which are specific for RTO research: (1) the different usage of scenarios in fast- and real-time simulation tools, (2) new and specific requirements for RTO simulations, and (3) development of the specific resilient simulation setups for RTO research as driving force, with emphasis on the redesign of human-in-the-loop simulations.
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Coordinator: In air traffic control, controllers are sometimes supported by a so-called coordinator. This role includes organizing the flight strips and taking phone calls to coordinate with airport and approach control.
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In contrast to flights following instrumental flight rules, flights following visual flight rules do not need to post a flight plan before initiating the flight. As a consequence this leads to the task that air traffic control has to record and write all relevant flight information upon initial call of the aircraft.
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Schier, S. (2016). Remote Tower Simulation Environment. In: Fürstenau, N. (eds) Virtual and Remote Control Tower. Research Topics in Aerospace. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28719-5_4
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