Virtual air traffic control tower tour
The Federal Aviation Administration in collaboration with the Colorado Aeronautics Division selected the Fort Collins-Loveland Municipal Airport for its first virtual air traffic control tower in the nation. It will employ advanced sensor technology and cameras to collect data and feed information to a central location where controllers will be able to communicate with and direct airplanes in the vicinity of the airport.
The system is designed with advanced, ground-based sensor technology to monitor aircraft movement, providing remote air traffic controllers with the same information a brick-and-mortar tower would give them. The system will be unique to the NoCo airport’s layout, with a central tower and two end towers, one at each far end of the runway area to eliminate blind spots. Each tower is equipped with cameras - the central tower has 17, arranged to give controllers a 360-degree view of the airport, and the end towers each have six. The camera data can be zoomed, tilted and panned via remote control and preset settings. There’s a night-vision setting that illuminates the runways with neon lights and dims the screen for better visibility.
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- Date: 20 Feb 2020
- Time: 05:00 PM to 06:00 PM
- All times are (UTC-07:00) Mountain Time (US & Canada)
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- Ft. Collins Loveland Airport, Colorado
- United States
- Building: Virtual tower building
- Starts 27 January 2020 01:16 PM
- Ends 20 February 2020 12:01 PM
- All times are (UTC-07:00) Mountain Time (US & Canada)
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- No Admission Charge