Automatic Terminal Information System for El Alto Airport
N. I. Vargas-Cuentas1, A. RomÃ¡n-GonzÃ¡lez2
Journal of Electronic Systems, Vol. 5, No. 3, 2015.
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Link: http://www.dline.info/jes/fulltext/v5n3/v5n3_1.pdf
Abstract:
The air traffic controllers of the El Alto airport must give to the landing and taking off aircrafts, necessary
information such as the visibility of the runway, the wind speed and direction, cloud cover, temperature, pressure, etc. This
information called Meteorological Terminal Aviation Routine Weather Report (METAR) is essential for taking decision
respect to the landing procedure. At aerodromes with a considerable level of traffic, the METAR issue has become a problem,
may cause congestion of the communication frequency, this has caused aviation incidents; otherwise the operations are
delayed and are not as smooth and efficient on the airfield. The air traffic controller is responsible for issuing the current
weather conditions, for this task, the manager of the garden weather must copy the collected data and make a report to
communicate the weather condition at the moment, but he takes the report every hour. In summary, there are two main
problems; the first is that one provide weather reports that are not of the moment, which can produce aircraft incidents, and
finally there is a congested communication frequency, for this reason, the operations are not optimal and fluid. The aim of this
work is to implement the ATIS (Automatic Terminal Information System) for El Alto airport.