Traffic control system

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)