UPGRADE: Daniel Webster College's ATC radar simulation technology
(Nashua,
N.H.) -- When they return to school this fall, air traffic management
students at Daniel Webster College (DWC) will be training on equipment
for use in ATC training
installed just this summer at its Nashua campus by UFA, Inc., of Woburn,
Mass.
The ATTower Radar
Simulator, customized to meet the specific needs of Daniel Webster
College's Air Traffic Management programs – now a four year
baccalaureate program begun in the 1970s and a new non-traditional
evening air traffic control program that begins in September 2005 for
students currently holding college degrees* -- features four controller
positions with integrated voice recognition, four assistant controller
positions, and four supervisor/pilot positions; all positions are
equipped with simulated air-to-ground communications and land line
telephony.
According to DWC
Professor Roger G. Bachieri, the new equipment “modernizes the college’s
program to maintain pace with the modernization of the national air
space system.”
According to Peter
Bischof, of UFA's subsidiary, ATCSim GmbH, who, along with staff from
UFA's Woburn office, delivered, installed, and trained Daniel Webster's
faculty on the equipment, the ATTower Radar provides high fidelity
simulation and display of radar data, flight data, and weather data.
Additionally, the installation includes UFA's ATVoice integrated voice
recognition that recognizes a student controller's spoken clearance to
the simulated aircraft, automatically implements that clearance and
generates the required pilot response, and ATRadio, which provides
simulated air-to-ground communications and land line telephony to the
student controller using Voice over the Internet Protocol technologies.
Daniel Webster
College’s air traffic management major is one of only 13 academic
programs recognized by the FAA as part of its Collegiate Training
Initiative (CTI) and all three of its aviation majors — aviation
management, air traffic management, and aviation flight operations — are
accredited by the Council on Aviation Accreditation (CAA). Additionally,
the college’s flight training program (professional pilot) is approved
under the guidelines of Federal Aviation Regulation Parts 141 and 61,
and all instructors are Certified Flight Instructors.
Founded in 1965,
Daniel Webster College is an independent college with nationally ranked
degree programs in aviation that are well complemented by innovative
programs in business and management, computer science, information
technology, engineering, sport management, social science. Through its
division of Graduate, Continuing and Continuing Studies, the college
offers accelerated evening MBA program, a new online MBA for aviation
professionals that begins January 2006, an accelerated degree completion
program (EXCEL), continuing studies, and a variety of certificate and
distance learning programs. For more information, visit
www.dwc.edu or call 603-577-6000.
* Daniel Webster
College’s accelerated bachelor degree program in Air Traffic
Management begins September 2005. FAA regulations require that
individuals receive their initial appointment as an air traffic
controller before their 31st birthday; therefore students
will not typically be accepted into this particular program after
their 28th birthday.
