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Jane's Air Traffic Control

Learn about the many aspects of air traffic control operations including airfield lighting and noise monitoring systems with Jane's Air Traffic Control. This comprehensive guide gives you detailed up-to-date information on the equipment and software used by airports and ATC authorities worldwide including the latest in CNS/ATM technology, ensuring you can track developments and locate new ATC solutions. Plus, the complete list of manufacturers, their products and contact details ensures you can locate suppliers quickly and easily.

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(updated information on all flights in the US, data sent to airlines as ASD), Above Ground Level, ACARS Over AVLC, Adaptive Moving Target Detection, ADS Broadcast, ADS Contract, Advanced Automation System (FAA), Advanced Boundary Information, Advanced Surface Movement Guidance and Control System, Aerodrome control ToWeR, Aeronautical DataLink, Aeronautical Fixed Telecommunications Network, Aeronautical Information Publication, Aeronautical Information Service, Aeronautical Message Switching System, Aeronautical Mobile Satellite Service, Aeronautical Mobile Services, Aeronautical Operational Control, Aeronautical Telecommunication Network, Agence pour la Sécurité de Navigation Aérienne en Afrique, Air Navigation Service Providers, Air Navigation System, Air Route Surveillance Radar, Air Route Traffic Control Centre (FAA), Air Sovereignty Operations Centre, Air Traffic Control, Air Traffic Control Centre, Air Traffic Control Operations Management System, Air Traffic Flow Management, Air Traffic Flow Planning System (Russian Federation and Associated States (CIS)), Air Traffic Management, Air Traffic Services, Air Traffic Services Reporting Office, Air Traffic Situational Awareness, Air Transport Action Group, Airborne Collision Avoidance System (ICAO term for TCAS), Airborne Separation Assistance System, Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System, Aircraft Situation Display (see ETMS), Airfield Ground Lighting, AirField Lighting, Airport Movement Area Safety System, Airport Surface Detection Equipment, Airport Surface Traffic Indicator, Airport/Airfield Surveillance Radar, All-purpose Structured Eurocontrol Radar, Altimeter setting providing aircraft height above ground level at airfield, Altimeter setting providing aircraft height above mean sea level, AM radio transmission with double sideband, AM SSB transmission with full carrier, AM SSB transmission with suppressed carrier, American Standard Code for Information Interchange, Amplitude Modulation, An enhanced error correction technique defined in Appendix 1 to RTCA DO-260A - MOPS for 1,090 MHz Extended Squitter ADS-B and TIS-B, Application Programmable Interface, Approach Control, APProach Control, Approach control Secondary Surveillance Radar, Area Control Centre, ARea NAVigation, Area Proximity Warning, ATC Radar Tracker And Server, ATS Data EXchange Presentation message format, Automated Surface Observing System, Automated Terminal Information Service/Air Traffic Information System, Automated Vehicle Location, Automated Weather Observing System, Automated Weather Sensor System, Automatic Data Processing, Automatic Dependent Surveillance, Automatic Dependent Surveillance/controller Pilot Data Link Communications, Automatic Direction-Finder, Automatic Frequency Control, Automatic Gain Control, Automatic Message Handling System, Automatic Message Switching Centre, Automatic PIlot REporting Programme - pilot reports actual weather to selected VOR for rebroadcast (FAA), Automatic Radar Terminal System (FAA), Aviation Data Communication Corporation, Aviation VHF Link Control, Binary Coded Decimal, bits per second, Built-In Test Equipment, Calculated Take-Off Time, Canadian Automated Air Traffic System, Capital Investment Plan (FAA), Central Bulletin Service (UK CAA), Central European Air Traffic Services, Central Flow Management Unit, Central Management Unit, Central Office for Delay Analysis, Central Processing Unit, CHanGe (modifying previous message), Characters per second, Civil Aviation Authority, Clearance Level Adherence Monitoring, CLeaRance/CLeaRed to, Cleared/Current Flight Level, Closed Circuit TeleVision, Code: 'what is my magnetic bearing from you?', Code: 'what is present atmospheric pressure converted to mean sea level at your location?', Code: 'will you indicate magnetic bearing for me to steer towards you with no wind?', Combination of VOR and TACAN, Command and Control Information System, Commercial Off-The-Shelf equipment, Common ICAO Data Interchange Network, Common Operational Performance Specification, Communications Control Unit, Communications, Navigation, Surveillance/Air Traffic Management (ICAO), Computer Assisted Slot Allocation, Conformance Monitoring, Constant Current Regulator, Constant False Alarm Rate, Continuous Wave, Control Zone, Controller Working Positions, Controller-Pilot DataLink Communication, Co-ordinateur Automatique du Trafic Aerién Francais - French ATC system, Danger Area Infringement Warning, Data Base Management System, Data Processing Unit, DataLink Control, Datalink Delivery of Taxi Clearance, Datalink Service Provider/Digital Signal Processing, Decision height 0 RVR 200 m, Decision height 60 m and either visibility (MOR) 800 m or RVR 550 m, Decision height 60 m RVR not less than 350 m, Delay Message, Department of Defense (US), Departure Control System, Deutsche FlugSicherung GmbH (Germany), DFS EuroControl ATM DEvelopment, Difference in Depth of Modulation, Differential Global Positioning System, Digital Airport Surveillance Radar (FAA), Digital Altimeter Setting Indicator, Digital Automatic Terminal Information Service, Digital Integrated Logic, Direction-Finder, Discrete Address Beacon System, Discrete Beacon Code, Display Processor, Distance From Threshold Indicator, Distance Measuring Equipment (Conventional), Distance Measuring Equipment (Precision associated with MLS), Doppler VOR, Double SideBand, Dual-Tone, MultiFrequency encoder/decoder, Effective Perceived Noise Level with tone/duration correction, Effective Radiated Power, Electronic Bearing and Range Marker, Electronic Counter Countermeasures, Electronic CounterMeasures, Electronic Data Display, Electronic Data Processing, Electronically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory, Emergency Communications Voice System, End Of Message, Energy - average sound pressure level, Enhanced ATM and Mode-S Implementation in Europe, Enhanced Tactical Flow Management System (Eurocontrol), Environmental Message Interchange, Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory, Estimated Off Block Time (CFMU), Estimated Time of Arrival, Estimated Time of Departure, European Air Navigation Planning Group, European Air Traffic Control Harmonisation and Integration Programme, European Air Traffic Management System, European ATM Programme (formerly EATCHIP), European Civil Aviation Conference, European Coherent Approach to R & D in ATM, European Global Navigation Overlay Service, European Research Programme in Transport (EC), False Replies Unsynchronised In Time, Fast Fourier Transform, Fast Time Constant, Federal Aviation Administration (US), Federal Aviation Regulations, Fibre Distributed Data Interface, Field Effect Transistor, File Transfer Protocol, Final Approach and Take-Off area (heliport), Flight Data Input/Output, Flight Identification, Flight Information Display System, Flight Information Region, Flight Information Service, Flight Plan, Flight plan Data Processing, Flight Plan Processing System, flights under Instrument Flight Rules, Flights under Visual Flight Rules, Flow Management Position, Flow Management Unit, Forward Looking Infra-red Radiometer, Frequency Modulation, Frequency-Shift Keying, Future Air Navigation System (ICAO), Future European Air Traffic (Management) System, Geographic Information System, Glide Path Indicator, GLOBal METeorological service, Global Navigation Satellite System, GLObal NAvigation Satellite System (Russian Federation and Associated States (CIS)), Global Positioning System (US), Graphical User Interface, Ground Collision Avoidance System, GrouND control, Ground Earth Station, Ground Station Module, Ground-Based Augmentation System (also known as LAAS), Ground-Controlled Approach to a runway, Hardware, High Frequency, High Frequency Data Link, High-Level DataLink Control, High-Resolution Direction-Finder, Human/Computer Interface, Human/Machine Interface, Identification Friend or Foe (Military SSR), Independent Carrier Wave/Interrupted Continuous Wave, Independent SideBand, Inertial Navigation System, Information Display Processor, Input/Output, Instrument Flying/Intermediate Frequency, Instrument Landing System, Instrument Meteorological Conditions, Integrated Circuits, Integrated Flight Plan Processing System, Integrated Services Digital Network, Integrated Tower System, Interactive MultiMode, Inter-Console Marker, International Air Transport Association, International Civil Aviation Organisation, International Federation of Air Traffic Controllers Association, INternational MARitime SATellite organisation, International Satellite Navigation System (FAA), International Standard Atmosphere, Interrogator SideLobe Suppression, Joint Aviation Authorities, Large Vertical Aperture (antenna), Large-Scale Integration (microelectronics), LeaD-IN light system, LIght Detection And Ranging technology, Light Emitting Diode, Line Replacement Unit, Linkage of VOR signals to aircraft ILS, Local Area Augmentation System, Local Area Differential GPS, Local Area Network, Localiser Directional Aid, Log Periodic Dipole antenna, Long Lead-In Light System, Low Frequency, Lower SideBand, Low-Level Windshear Alert System, Maastricht Automatic Data Processing and Display System (Eurocontrol), Maintenance Management System, Man/Machine Interface, Mean Time Between Critical Failures, Mean Time Between Failures, Mean Time Between Outages, Mean Time Between Repair, Mean Time To Failure, Mean Time To Repair, Medium Frequency, Medium Intensity Approach Lighting System with RAILS (FAA), Medium Term Conflict Detection, Metal Oxide Silicon, Field Effect Transistor, METeorological Aeronautical Radio code, Meteorological Optical Range, METeorological REPort, Microburst Prediction Radar, Microwave Landing System, Minimum Aviation System Performance Standards, Minimum Discernible Signal, Minimum Operational Performance Standards, Minimum Safe Altitude Warning, Ministry of Defence, Modulated Carrier (or continuous) Wave, A2 emission, MONitoring Aids, Monopulse Secondary Surveillance Radar, Moving Target Detector (primary radar), Moving Target Indicator (primary radar), MultiFrequency Coding, MultiMode Receiver, Multiradar Fusion Tracking, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Air Traffic Services (UK), National Airspace Data Interchange Network (FAA), National Airspace System (US), National Oceanic and Atmospherics Administration, National Weather Service (US), Network Management Data Processing System, New En Route Centre (UK), No Transgressor Zone, Noise Noise level exceeded for N per cent of the time, Noise Monitoring Terminal, Non-Directional Beacon, Non-Discrete Beacon Code, NOTice to Aerodrome Licence holders, NOTice to AirMen, Oceanic Control System (NZ), Oceanic DataLink (FAA), OmniDirectional Approach Lighting System, OmniDirectional Approach Path Indicator, OnLine Data Interchange, Open Systems Interconnection, OPeration METeorological service, Operator Input and Display System, Organisation Météorologique Mondiale/World Meteorological Organisation, Packet Switched Network, PAPI used for helicopter operations, Peak Envelope Power, Peak sound level, Plan Position Indicator, Plan-View Display, Portable Operating System Interface for computer environments, Precision Approach Path Indicator, Precision Approach Radar, Pre-Departure Clearance, Primary Surveillance Radar, Probability of Detection, Programmable Logic Control, Programmable Read-Only Memory, Programme for Harmonisation of ATM Research in Eurocontrol, Public Automatic Branch eXchange, Public Telecommunications System (many European nations), Pulse Code Modulation, Pulse Light Approach Slope Indicator, Pulse Repetition Frequency, Quadrature Phase Shift Keying, RAdar Data NETwork (Eurocontrol), Radar Data Processing System, Radar Head Processor, Radar Microwave Link, Radio Frequency, Random-Access Memory, Range Azimuth Gating, Raster Scan Display, Read-Only Memory, Receiver SideLobe Suppression, Recording and playback, Reduced Instruction Set Computer, Reduced Vertical Separation Minima, Relational DataBase Management System, Relative Height Indicator, Remote Communications Air-to-Ground, Remote Control and Monitoring System, Remote Maintenance Monitoring, Remote Processing Unit, Repetitive Flight Plan, REplacement and Modernisation Programme, Reply Processing and Channel Management, Report on the current weather situation, Required Navigational Performance (to operate within a defined space), Research and Technology Development, Restricted Area Penetration, Route Adherence Monitoring, Routine ground-to-air broadcast of meteorological information (ICAO), Run-Time Operating System, Runway Visual Range, Runway-Alignment Indicator Light System (FAA), Runway-End Identification Light System (FAA), RVR 0 m, RVR 50 m, SATellite COMmunications, SAtellite DIStribution System, Search And Rescue, Secondary Surveillance Radar, Segregated Aerospace Probing, Selective Addressing by SSR, Selective Identification Facility, Semi-Automatic Weather Observation System, Sensitivity Time Control, Short Take-Off and Landing, Short-Pulse Insertion (SSR), Short-Term Collision Avoidance/Conflict Alert, SideLobe Suppression, Single Event Noise Exposure Level, also known as LAX, Single event noise exposure level; also known as 'SENEL', Single Event Threshold Level, Single SideBand, Slant Visual Range, Small Tower Voice Switch, Société Internationale de Télécommunications Aéronautiques, SoftWare, Sound duration, Sound Exposure Level, Sound level with A-weighting applied, Sound Pressure Level, Space Division Multiplexing or Sum in Depth of Modulation, Space-Based Augmentation System (also known as WADGPS), SPECial Meteorological Report, Stand-Alone Weather Sensor, Standard Instrument Departure, Standard Terminal (Instrument) Arrival Route, Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System (FAA), Standards And Recommended PracticeS (ICAO), Structured Query Language, Supplemental Type Certification, SurFaCe, Surface Movement Guidance and Control System, Surface Movement Radar, System Safety Assessment, System Supported Co-Ordination, TACtical Air Navigation beacon, TaxiWaY, Technical Management System, Temporary Danger Area Warning, Terminal Approach Radar, Terminal Area Forecast, TerMinal Control centre, Terminal Manoeuvring (Control) Area, Terminal Radar Approach CONtrol (FAA), Text To Speech, Thin Film Transistor, Threshold Sampling Time, Time Division Multiplex, Time Reference Scanning Beam, Touch Input Device, TouchDown and Lift-Off area, TouchDown Zone, Traffic alert Collision Avoidance System, Traffic Flow Management (FAA), Traffic Information System - Broadcast, Transcribed WEather Broadcasts, Travelling Wave Tube, Two-Way DataLink, Ultra-High Frequency, Uninterruptible Power Supply, Universal Time (Co-ordinated), UNIX Basic System Software, Unmanned Air Vehicle, Unmodulated (steady note) continuous wave radio emission, Unmodulated (steady note) radio emission identified by Morse code in a break period, Unmodulated but keyed radio emission, Unmodulated emission identified by Morse code heard above unbroken carrier (for example an NDB), Upper Air Control, Upper flight Information Region, Upper SideBand, VDL Mode 2, Vertical Take-Off and Landing, Very High Frequency, Very Low Frequency, VHF DataLink, VHF Omnidirectional Radio range, VHF/UHF Radio DF system (UK), Video Bandwidth Compression, Visual Approach Slope Indicator, Visual Control Room, Visual Display Unit, Visual Meteorological Conditions, Voice Communication and Control System, Voice Communication Switching System, Voice keying (NASA), Voice Over Internet Protocol, Voice-Operated Gain-Adjusting Device, Voltage Standing-Wave Ratio, VOR steering guidance with DME distance information, Weather charts in GRIdded Binary format, Weather Information And Display System, Wide Area Augmentation System, Wide Area Differential GPS, Wide Area Network, World Meteorological Organisation