Traffic control system

JAKARTA (JP): Hughes Information Technology Systems of the United States has completed the early integration of software and equipment for the Jakarta Automated Air Traffic Control System (JAATS).

Hughes said yesterday the integration of its products with the existing and new radar completed the last in a series of contracted factory acceptance tests for JAATS which is part of an advanced centralized air traffic control capability for the Jakarta Flight Information Region.

Site integration of JAATS would begin in mid February at Soekarno-Hatta International airport in Jakarta, with site acceptance tests scheduled for April 1997, Hughes said.

JAATS would replace the current air traffic control system with a more advanced system which would improve safety and reliability and increase controller effectiveness through information consolidation and advanced automation.

JAATS is expandable and will accommodate future air traffic which is currently forecast to grow at an annual rate of nine percent until 2010. The new system will allow the country to control the entire Western Indonesia airspace from Jakarta. (icn)