Flight Tracking Software Type 7804

The purpose of the Flight Tracking software is to expand and enhance the capabilities of Noise Monitoring software Type 7802. It does this primarily by correlating Noise Events with aircraft movements. Noise data, taken from the existing Noise Event database, are correlated through position and time with flight-track data, taken from a database, extended by the Flight Tracking software, to determine individual sources of aircraft noise.

Flight Tracks Display and Data
Provided there is a suitable real-time link with a radar acquisition system, flight-track data can be displayed as traces on a map showing the movement of all aircraft currently within the airport's air traffic control area. At the head of each flight track, a label will be shown which identifies each aircraft. The background to this display is the GIS map of the airport and its environs. The map can also show the established air corridors and show if the displayed flight tracks keep within them or otherwise.

Playback of Historical Data
Historical flight-track data, together with correlated monitored noise levels, may also be replayed, and speeded up if required. This is a useful feature, especially when demonstrating to the culprits the consequences of their deviations from established noise abatement procedures.

Track Violations
This is a routine, which examines the track of each departing aircraft and reports any violation of the established air corridors. Violation data are also entered automatically into the records of each track record.

Track Analysing
Track Analysing is feature where several flight-tracks can be analysed according to corridors, gates and altitude profiles.

GIS (Geographic Information System)
The Geographic Information System software will give the user all the normal features off a GIS, including zoom, zoom out, pan, address-matching etc.