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additional Advanced Automation System aeronautical data link air traffic control aircraft Airport Surface airspace appropriated through Cumulative ARTCCS ASOS ASTA AWOS AWPG capabilities projects Category changes CIP projects completed consolidation contract CRDA Cumulative F&E funds Cumulative F&E obligations data communication channel delayed designed Dollars in millions equipment estimated F&E costs F&E funds appropriated FAA expects FAA plans FAA's first-site implementation fiscal year 1992 Flight Service Stations FSAS Funding History Dollars Global Positioning System GNSS Harris Corporation installed Instrument Landing System ISSS last-site implementation date LDRCL Microwave Landing System millions Total estimated MLSS navigation ODAPS operational testing percent phase pilots Plan and CIP precision approaches program office Progress and Problems requirements runway satellite secondary surveillance radars surveillance radar TATCA TCCC TDWR terminal Total estimated F&E total F&E cost TRACON upgrade VSCS weather information Weather Processor Windshear
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Page 45 - Category I equipment allows aircraft to descend to a height of 200 feet above the ground when the runway visual range is at least 1,800 feet. Category II and III equipment allow aircraft to descend closer to the runways.
Page 46 - Airspace System: Emerging Technologies May Offer Alternatives to the Instrument Landing System (GAO/RCED-93-33 , Nov. 13, 1992). Air Traffic Control: Advanced Automation System Still Vulnerable to Cost and Schedule Problems (GAO/RCED-92-264, Sept. 18, 1992).
Page 29 - Capacity, and Efficiency (GAO/T-RCED-93-33, Apr. 26, 1993). Air Traffic Control: Uncertainties and Challenges Face FAA's Advanced Automation System (GAO/T-RCED-93-20, Apr. 19, 1993). Air Traffic Control; Status of FAA's Modernization Program (GAO/RCED-93-121FS, Apr. 16, 1993). Air Traffic Control: Advanced Automation System Problems Need to Be Addressed (GAO/T-RCED-93-15, Mar.
Page 72 - This lack of reliable and timely position information, in turn, requires large aircraft separation standards, severely limiting the useable system capacity. As a result, oceanic users are rarely able to obtain maximum fuel efficiency, minimum travel times, and access to preferred takeoff times and flight paths. This project will develop new abilities to increase oceanic air traffic capacity and efficiency. without degrading safety, leading to the introduction of free flight in oceanic air space.
Page 72 - Improves safety by locating aircraft more accurately than current secondary surveillance radar and expands capacity - Combines into a common system, hardware and software packages from various systems under development to improve the automation of ATC over the oceans - Improves traffic flow while promoting maximum fuel efficiency and minimal travel times - Replace and enhance the current flight service automation system (FSAS...
Page 12 - One way to measure FAA's progress in modernizing the ATC system is to identify the number of projects that have been completed. FAA has fully implemented 46 projects in the field — 10 in the past year.
Page 22 - Detects hazardous weather around airports, such as microbursts, gust fronts, wind shifts, and precipitation. - Promotes safety by providing alerts of hazardous weather conditions in terminal areas and of changing wind conditions that influence runway usage. 373.3 380.9 7.6 VSCS - Replaces and improves voice ground-to-ground and air-to-ground communications at ATC facilities. - Increases controllers' efficiency in handling air traffic.
Page 48 - Also, it is designed to interrogate up to 700 aircraft individually and has a data communication channel that permits ground-to-air exchange of aviation-related information, including air traffic control and weather data.
Page 48 - FAA plans to implement 108 of these system at terminal sites and 25 of them at en route sites. Four systems will be used for training and technical support. Mode S Progress and Problems During the last year, the costs of the Mode S project increased slightly, but the last-site implementation date was not delayed.
Page 13 - ATC system can also be measured by the amount of F&E funding that FAA has obligated. Obligations involve awarding contracts, placing orders, and receiving services during a given period and requiring payments during the same or a future period.