20 May 2021
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The Department of Transportation (DOTr) has inaugurated the installation of Aerodrome Tower 3D Simulator, a high tech visual simulator that will help our Aviation Training Centers (ATCs) in training, testing, and maintaining proficiency in handling aerodrome control operations without involving any risk to property or lives, and at much lower cost than training in actual air traffic control conditions.
This new simulator, which is the first of its kind in the Philippines, has a 315-degree Horizontal Field of View (FOV), installed at the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines’s Civil Aviation Training Center (CATC) in Paranaque City.
This new technology is world class, and is comparable to the Virtual Tower of Singapore.
The six (6) airport scenario settings installed in the simulator program can be used for ATC proficiency in the airport environments of Manila, Clark, Mactan, Plaridel, Davao, and a generic single runway airport.
Previously, ATC instructors use miniature model airplanes, manipulating it tediously over printed airport tarpaulins to recreate air traffic scenarios. With the arrival of our new Aerodrome Simulator, this practice shall now be obsolete.
The Aerodrome Simulator is planned to be used for the training of new air traffic controllers through the Comprehensive Air Traffic Service (CATS) Course offered at CATC. The course not only aims to promote the industry of aviation as a career option but also to support the International Civil Aviation Organization's (ICAO) New Generation of Aviation Professionals (NGAP) initiative. |
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