• DocumentCode
    3735403
  • Title

    Automatic terminal information system for El Alto airport

  • Author

    N. I. Vargas-Cuentas;A. Rom?n-Gonz?lez

  • Author_Institution
    Escuela Militar de Ingenier?a, La Paz, Bolivia
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    137
  • Lastpage
    142
  • Abstract
    The air traffic controllers of the El Alto airport must give to the landing and taking off aircrafts, necessary information such as the visibility of the runway, the wind speed and direction, cloud cover, temperature, pressure, etc. This information called Meteorological Terminal Aviation Routine Weather Report (METAR) is essential for taking decision respect to the landing procedure. At aerodromes with a considerable level of traffic, the METAR issue has become a problem, may cause congestion of the communication frequency, this has caused aviation incidents; otherwise the operations are delayed and are not as smooth and efficient on the airfield. The air traffic controller is responsible for issuing the current weather conditions, for this task, the manager of the garden weather must copy the collected data and make a report to communicate the weather condition at the moment, but he takes the report every hour. In summary, there are two main problems; the first is that one provide weather reports that are not of the moment, which can produce aircraft incidents, and finally there is a congested communication frequency, for this reason, the operations are not optimal and fluid. The aim of this work is to implement the ATIS (Automatic Terminal Information System) for El Alto airport.
  • Keywords
    "Airports","Aircraft","Air traffic control","Frequency control","Wind"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Technology, Informatics, Management, Engineering & Environment (TIME-E), 2015 International Conference on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/TIME-E.2015.7389762
  • Filename
    7389762