Nav Canada has completed the final factory acceptance of its new Raytheon Systems Canadian automated air traffic system (CAATS), thereby paving the way for the start of installation of the system at air traffic control centres throughout the country.
Canadian-developed CAATS consolidates all radar, flight data, weather and other information on integrated, high-performance workstations featuring multi-layer colour map displays.
"We want one more system to be built with some alterations, such as display changes, which will take us to next fall [third quarter 2001] after we run some exhaustive tests," says Sid Koslow, Nav Canada vice-president of engineering.
Over the next 12 months, Nav Canada will begin to integrate CAATS with its existing systems at Canada's seven air traffic area control centres and 23 main control towers. It will take about two years before CAATS is fully installed.
Source: Flight International
