anual for Simon Bergner?s ATC Simulator v1.

Index
1. Station Setup Screen
1.1 TMA Selection 1.2 Runway configuration setup 1.3 Voicetest and selection 1.4 Time selection 1.5 Activate-button 1.6 SID/STAR Selection Window

2. The Scope
2.1 The Topbar 2.1.1 TTS Enable/Disable button 2.1.2 Setupwindow and radarscope symbols 2.1.3 Altitudefilter 2.1.4 Iconbuttons and time 2.2 Flighstrip Window 2.3 Aircraft symbol and datatag 2.4 Distance measuring tool 2.5 Working the scope

3. Communication
3.1 Communicating with pilots 3.1.1 Controlling with text 3.1.2 Controlling using voice

4. Controlling traffic
4.1 Controlling departures 4.2 Controlling arrivals

5. Key summary 6. Command summary

6.1 Text commands 6.2 Voice commands

I. Callsign pronunciation

1. Station Setup Screen

ting the program you will see the window above. This is where you setup the for this session. As you can see from the above picture there are five different fields
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A : TMA Selection B : Runwayconfiguration setup C : Voicetest and selection D : Time-selection E : Activate-button

1.1 TMA Selection

re you select the sector you wish to control. When you select a TMA from the list mar u will see some info to the right of the list, namely the TMA Name and the creators na

1.2 Runwayconfiguration setup

etup is located in the field marked B. For each Airport in the dropdownboth an active arrival runway and departure runway. You select a runway by clicking i

1.3 Voicetest and selection

he pilots to use when n the list and then click the speakerbutton and you should hear the voice say "This is

1.4 Time selection

inform you of this and you can select another time. The two buttons are "RANDOM T

1.5 Activate-button

er all the above selections has been made you are ready to start the simulator. Hit the TIVATE"-button marked E to get into the action.

1.6 SID/STAR Selection Window

ard Instrument Departure : A path flown by departing aircrafts if they have equipment dard Terminal Arrival Route : A path flown by arriving aircrafts with the appropriate e

way 08 for departures will show the window above. The procedures in this case, AROS ry handoff point that has multiple procedures.

2. The Scope

he scope consists of three major parts, which can be viewed in the above picture:
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The Topbar, located at the top of the screen The actual Radarscope The Communication area located at the bottom of the screen

his chapter we will focus on the Topbar and its functions, and the Radarscope and how to configure it. rmation about the Communication area is found in Chapter 3.

2.1 The Topbar

ormation not marked in the above picture doesn't have any actual function at this moment. It is just the enhancement. Let us take a closer look at the functioning parts, starting with the button found under "O s" marked A.

2.1.1 TTS Enable/Disable button

above picture "NORMAL" and the text "OFF". When indicating d which means that the pilots will use voice to communicate with you. When in "OFF"-mode the pilots wi

2.1.2 Setupwindow and radarscope symbols

button marked B in the Topbar-picture is displayed above. This button is used to bring up the Scope Set dow shown below:

e values for the red (R), blue (B) and green (G) intensities in the textfields, or you can use the "+" and "

re you select what objects to display on scope. In the picture above all object by clicking the appropriate button. In the picture below you can see what a VOR, NDB and FIX loo

Exit the setup by either clicking "CLOSE" or anywhere on the radorscope.

2.1.3 Altitudefilter

r scope. The ou enter "100" in he higher altitude value, the number entered times 100 gives the altitude from which the aircrafts is no

2.1.4 Iconbuttons and time

he clock is selfexplanatory and from left to right the buttons are as follows:
? Exit simulator ? Show information about simulator ? Pause/Resume simulator ? Speed up simulator (x10 real time), use only when no traffic in sector

2.2 Flightstrip Window

can the color of a flightstrip not yet accepted by you from other controller. When clicking/selecting a flightst

The info shown on a flightstrip is as follows: A: Aircraft callsign B: Aircrafttype C: Current speed D: Datacode, used when communicating wih other controllers E: Estimated time of sectorentry, could be delayed F: Indication if aircraft follows any standard procedure or expects vectors. Either SID, STAR or Vect G: Current clearance given, first cleared altitude or flightlevel and last cleared speed H: Entry-/exitpoint or current executed standard procedure I: Flightplan, departure airport - arrival airport

rip another window will appear, namely the Flight Information Window where you egarding the selected flight. F.i. if we were to doubleclick the flightstrip for "KFB480" we would see a win

2.3 Aircraft symbol and datatag

we will look at the ordinary aircraft symbol and its datatag, before looking at some special cases that ap g simualtion. Here is an example of the ordinary aircraft symbol:

al aircraft is drawn as a triangle. This is the way the aircraft will be drawn under your control the aircraft is drawn as a square, and also in a en looking at the special cases. For now let us look at the datatag, which is the three lines of text to the The first line, indicated by A, will always display the callsign.

n about aircraft altitude. The number to the left of "+" is current f "+" is cleared flightlevel/altitude. Also the "+" can turn into "-" if aircraft is descending and "=" if the a

e will see soon the third line is the one that changes the most, but in the ordinary datatag it displays the wing information:
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C: Aircraft datacode D: Aircraft groundspeed

let us look at some different possibilities for the datatag, starting with the datatags for a departing aircr

by you, and the fact that the aircraft symbol is a square instead of a triangle which also indicates that y

color is now darkred which ecuted, in this case you awaiting areacontrol to accept handoff. The only difference here is that the spe

n areacontrol accepts handoff, as seen in image C, the color remains darkred but the third line will const ay the "R" and to the right the ID of the accepting controller.

ve asked pilot to contact areacontrol, the datatag will turn into image D, indicating that you no ol of the aircraft (compare with image A). Instead of speed it displays the controller ID of the station no

let's take a quick look at the different datatags for an arriving aircraft to see the differences and equalit

nd A2 are similiar to B1 and B2 in the departure datatags picture with the difference that now areacont ng the aircraft off to you (H-ARR).

mage B indicates that you have initiated a handoff to tower controller.

the tower located at airport ESSA has accepted your handoff request, and in image D the tower at ESSA rolling the aircraft.

t but not least we will look at a situtation you want to avoid if possible, namely the collision alert:

avoid collision alerts make sure you keep at least 4nm or 1000ft separation between aircrafts.

2.4 Distance measuring tool

artpoint selected, in this case it is heading 296. Because we placed the starting point at an aircraft we a

2.5 Working the scope

een covered in previous sections regarding the scope. eclicking the wanted centerposition. You can also zoom in and out by pressing F11 (zoom in) and F12 (z ow let?s take a look at how to communicate with pilots and other ATC stations.

3. Communication

e bottom of the scope you will find the communication area shown above. The area marked A is the fiel ommunicate with other pilots using text, called the Pilot-Comm field. Commands available will be discu ter 3.1.1 Controlling with text. The field marked B is an indicator for voicetransmission. When you issue ecommand by pressing Ctrl the indicator will turn red while Ctrl is held down indicating a transmission is e. How to control using voice is discussed in Chapter 3.1.2 Controlling with voice. Finally the field marke ATC-Comm field used when issuing or accepting handoff to/from other controllers. The only valid comma field is "+" followed by the aircraft datacode found either on the flightstrip (see Chapter 2.2) or on the a datatag (see Chapter 2.3).

3.1 Communicating with pilots

lots can be done in two ways, either via textcommands transmitted through the Pilot-Comm ands spoken into a microphone. We will first take a look at the textcommands available and how you us

3.1.1 Controlling with text

to the Pilot-Comm field followed by a Space. Then you can enter as many commands you want seperate

Command

Explanation

Key shortcut N/A N/A Downarrow Uparrow Leftarrow Rightarrow N/A Pageup Pagedown N/A N/A N/A N/A

CC Contact control [if you want realism, add the actual freq after CC, compare CT] CT XXX. yy Contact tower on frequency XXX.yy Descend and maintain Flightlevel XX(X), or altitude YYYY(Y) Climb and maintain Flightlevel XX(X), or altitude YYYY(Y)

DM XXX, YYYYY

CM XXX, YYYYY TL xxx TR xxx IS xxx

Turn left heading xxx Turn right heading xxx Increase speed to xxx kts

FH xxxFly heading xxx. Pilot will turn the shortest way RS xxx Reduce speed to xxx kts PD XXXXX Proceed direct to Fixname/VOR/NDB

CI XXX Cleared ILS approach runway XX(X) CV XXXCleared visual approach runway XX(X) SH Report heading

table above there is a Key shortcut specified for some commands. These can be used instead of actual

he letters CM. By pressing Uparrow these letters will be written automatically and you just have to enter ude/flightlevel. Now let?s take a look at some example communications: Entered command Actual interpretation

SAS2023 TL 200 CM 120 Scandinavian 2023 turn left heading 200, climb to flightlevel 120 BAW1544 PD ERK IS 270 Speedbird 1544 proceed direct to Erken, increase speed to 270 FIN453 CT 118.5 Finnair 453 contact tower 118.5

e sending it nd ALT ou have already sent an incorrect line you may bring up the last transmitted line by pressing "-". There

3.1.2 Controlling using voice

complete it, the result using Speech is very unpredictable. Make sure you only use the "Default Speech

mpleted some voice training. Now it is time to practice it in the real environment. You start a holding down the Ctrl-key (notice the red indicator light to the right of the pilot-comm field). You end it

irst you must say is the callsign for the aircraft, f.i. "Scandinavian one one two nine" and then followed mands. This is a list of expected phrases that can be used while controlling (Words within () is optional): General command Turn left (heading) XXX Go left (heading) XXX Turn right (heading) XXX Go right (heading) XXX Fly (heading) XXX Example communication "Turn left heading one two zero" "Go left one two zero" "Go right heading one two zero" "Fly heading one zero zero" Analogous textcmd TL 120 TL 120 TR 120 FH 100

"Turn right heading one two zero" TR 120

Descend and maintain (flightlevel/ "Descend and maintain two thousand five hundred feet" DM 2500 altitude) XXX (feet) DM 120 CM 4000 CM 160

scend to (flightlevel/altitude) XXX "Descend to flightlevel one two zero" (feet) Climb and maintain (flightlevel/ "Climb and maintain four thousand feet" altitude) XXX (feet)

"Climb to flightlevel one six zero" mb to (flightlevel/altitude) XXX (feet) Increase speed XXX (knots) Reduce speed XXX (knots) Speed XXX (knots) "Increase speed two eight zero" "Reduce speed one eight zero" "Speed two eight zero knots" IS 180 RS 180 N/A

Proceed direct to XXX Go direct to XXX Cleared direct to XXX Proceed to XXX

"Proceed direct to Tebby" "Go direct to Erken" "Cleared direct to Hammar" "Proceed to Tebby"

PD TEB PD ERK PD HMR PD TEB CC CT 118.5

act (Stockholm) control (on) (XXX.xx) "Contact Stockholm control" Contact (Arlanda) tower (on) XXX.xx "Contact tower on one one eight decimal five"

Cleared ILS approach (runway) XXx "Cleared ILS approach zero one left"CI 01L CV 26

Cleared visual approach (runway) XXx visual approach runway two six" "Cleared "Say heading" SH SH

Say (present/current) heading

Report (present/current) heading "Report present heading"

st the speechrecognition may seem like more trouble than fun but hang in there because it will be worth tart to direct traffic with fast and precise voicecommands just like the real controllers do!

4. Controlling traffic

part is an illustrative guide about how you control an aircraft from the time you take over control until y to someone else. The guide is divided into two parts, Controlling departures and Controlling arrivals, sin iffers some. First let?s see how to control aircrafts coming into your sector.

4.1 Controlling departures

t, as you can see in the image above, a flightstrip has appeared and, as the ccepted the handoff from tower. Just above the ATC-Comm field you can see a transmission sent to you

n clicking the grey flightstrip you inform tower that you accept the handoff. As you can see in the image e is also a transmission sent to tower accepting handoff for KFB480.

en you?re in control. Let us command the aircraft to climb to appropriate commands either using voice or text. The text command can look like this: "480 CM 120 P

and, as the image above indicates, he has passed FL100 so we can g +802. The + indicates ATC to ATC communication and 802 is the aircraft datacode (which can be foun

ntroller to accept, the flightinfo turns red. When an R comes up you can hand it over to "480 CC" (CC - Contact Control). The controller will also accept the handoff by sending you a message

you handed the aircraft over it turns green. By pressing +802 again the datatag will disappear and you he echo.

here you have it, a successful handling of a departing aircraft! Now let?s take a look at how to guide an aft safely to its destination.

4.2 Controlling arrivals

to handle some arriving traffic. Our first arrival has appeared as seen in the image above, it?s Scandina Newark, New York. Accept the arrival by entering +141 in the ATC-Comm field.

magenta and checks in. Let?s clear it down to FL70 and give him heading 090 since area. Using textcommand: "904 DM 70 FH 090" (DM - Descend and maintain, FH - Fly Heading. You can

an additional command earlier, clearing SAS904 to altitude 2500ft, he?s now on the downwind leg for r h is our selected landing runway.

t?s clear him for approach: "904 FH 230 CI 26" (CI - Cleared Instrument approach rwy 26).

904 is turning onto the localizer centerline, looks good. Initiate handoff to tower by entering +141 in the m field.

er accepted the aircraft. Let?s ask the pilot to contact tower now: "904 CT 118.5" (CT 118.5 - Contact To decimal 5)

S904 is now under tower-control expecting to land shortly, and that means our work is done.

5. Key summary

Here we will summarize the different keys used in the simulator. Pilot-Comm field keys Leftarrow TL

Scope keys/General keys

Rightarrow UparrowTR CM DM Downarrow htstrip Window Scope (large) zoom in Scope (large) zoom out hift+)F11 Pilot-Comm field cursor in (Shift+)F12 [tapping] Pageup IS Activate voicetransmission Place textcursor in ATC-Comm + field Pagedown RS

ut Box

[holding down]

ALT Move textcursor left +Leftarrow

ALT Recall last command issued and put in Pilot-Comm Move textcursor right +Rightarrow

6. Command summary

ontains a summary of all commands, both text and voice, that can be issued to pilots. same information found in previous chapters but here to make it easy to print only th

6.1 Text commands

Command Explanation CC Key shortcut

Contact control [if you want realism, add the actual freq after CC, N/A compare CT] Contact tower on frequency XXX.yy Descend and maintain Flightlevel XX(X), or altitude YYYY(Y) Climb and maintain Flightlevel XX(X), or altitude YYYY(Y) Turn left heading xxx Turn right heading xxx Leftarrow Rightarrow N/A Downarrow Uparrow

YY

YY Fly heading xxx. Pilot will turn the shortest way x FH xxx IS xxx RS xxx PD Increase speed to xxx kts Reduce speed to xxx kts Proceed direct to Fixname/VOR/NDB Cleared ILS approach runway XX(X) Cleared visual approach runway XX(X) Report heading

N/A Pageup Pagedow

X SH

N/A N/A N/A N/A

6.2 Voice commands

Analogous textcmd TL 120 TL 120 TR 120 TR 120 FH 100

General command Turn left (heading) XXX Go left (heading) XXX

Turn right (heading) XXX unication

g one two zero"

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ng one two zero" DM 2500 one two zero" "Fly heading one zero zero" "Descend and maintain two ndred feet" DM 120 dlevel maintain zero" and one two eet) CM 4000 ain four thousand feet"

tude) XXX (feet) el one six zero" CM 160 evel/ wo eight zero" "Reduce speed one eight zero" "Speed two eight zero knots" "Proceed

n" "Cleared direct to Hammar" e) XXX (feet) y" IS 180 ) Reduce speed XXX (knots) Speed XXX (knots) RS 180 irect to XXX Cleared direct to XXX Proceed to XXX N/A ol PD TEB PD ERK PD HMR PD TEB

n) XXX.xx "Contact Stockholm control" CC "Contact tower on one one eight decimal five" CT 118.5

way) XXx

ing

eading

"Cleared ILS approach zero one left" CI 01L "Cleared visual approach runway two six" CV 26 "Say heading" SH "Report present heading" SH

I. Callsign pronunciation
CODE SAS Callsign Scandinavian

Pronunciation "s k ae n d ih n ae v ih aa n" "s p iy d b er d" "f ih n ae r" "ae r f r aa n s" "s k y eh k s p r eh s" "l uw f t h aa n s aa" "s w iy s" "b l uw f ih n" "eh k uw eh k s p r eh s" "t ay" "v ih d eh r ow"

"eh s t ow n iy aa n" "ae r b ao l t ih k" "ae r uh f l ao t" thansa Swiss Bluefinnk uh v uh" "K L M" "p ah l KLM AUA SAB LOT s t r VKG SNB"eh sMAH JKK CSA NVR BLX DAN CTN "ao IRA iy ah n" IBE t ey l" Baltic Aeroflot"l ao t" KLM Austrian Estail Pulkovo "s t ah r l ih ng" "ay b eh r ih aa" "m aa l eh v" "s p aa n ae r" "C S A l ay n s" "n ae v ih g ey t ao r" "b l uw s k ae n" "m ae r s k ae r" "k r uw ey zh aa"

Iberia Malev Spanair CSA Lines Navigator Bluescan Maerskair "ih r aa n ae r" "v ay k iy ng"

eair

uxair AP SWV NDC SRL r Portugal Flying swede Nordic Starline "ay s ae r" "l ah k s ae r" GWI German Wings "ae r p ao r ch uh g aa l" "f l ay ih ng s w iy d" "n ao r d ih k" "s t aa r l ay n" "y ah r m ax n w ih ng s"

r Shuttle ao r sh ah t l" "ae r ch ay n ax" "ax l ih t aa l iy ax" "jh _ ey _ t iy" "n ZA JAT AlitaliarJAT ey n ih ax" Air Malta l t ax" China GMI AMC Germaina "ae r m ao "y ah m "l iy th uw ey n ih ax ae r" "f l ay b ah r d" "ao d ae l iy" "n ao r th r ay d r" LIL Lithuania Air "b aa l k ax n h ao l iy d ey s" Flybird FLY Audeli ADI NRD Northrider BGH Balkan Holidays