TopSky
The TopSky system is a computerised air traffic control and management solution developed by Thales Air Systems. It utilises a distributed computing architecture and is capable of integrating geographically dispersed air traffic control units within a Flight Information Region into a single coherent system.
During 2012, the Thales marketing name has been changed from Eurocat to TopSky.
Features
TopSky handles a large variety of different functions required for the smooth operation of air traffic control and management. A non-exhaustive list includes:- Surveillance data processing and track correlation
- Flight plan processing
- Communication
- Aeronautical information data processing
- Flow control and sequencing
- Human-machine interfacing
- Data recording
- Controller situational awareness and alerts generation
- *Squawk Emergency, Radio Failure, Hijack
- *Short Term Conflict Alert, Minimum Safe Altitude Warning, Danger Area Infringement Warning etc.
- *Non-Transgression Zone alert, DUPE Alerts, FPCF Alerts.