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VV Approach™ is a revolutionary computer-based Air Traffic Control training system. It promotes the development of highly intuitive visual techniques that are easily learned and applied to a range of dynamic traffic scenarios.

Highlights of VV Approach™ (ANSP Edition) include:

An interactive computer-based training system that presents to the student an expert, step-wise model for RADAR vectoring and sequencing.

A portable and self-contained simulator providing opportunities for practice that have never before been available in ATC training.

Student Tracking and Performance Metrics that enable ANSPs and other training providers to continuously improve training outcomes.

Skills and Techniques covered in VV Approach™

  • Radar vectoring principles and theory;

  • Separation of aircraft by RADAR, and by the use of Vertical Separation. Wake Turbulence Separation is included. Separation Assurance is heavily emphasized;

  • Orderly sequencing of aircraft onto a common runway, using RADAR vectoring techniques to achieve optimum landing spacing;

  • Processing mixed slow and fast arriving aircraft;

  • Control of aircraft departing a common runway, including mixed fast/slow combinations; and

  • Separation of departing aircraft from arriving ones.

    		•  Advantages of the VV Approach™ system

    1.   Cost of Training - Presently, practical ATC training is largely done in system-based simulators, at considerable expense to the trainer and/or the trainee. VV Approach shifts a significant component of practical radar training from the system simulator to a private environment. Students have the opportunity to learn in their own time and at their own pace. Basic skills are acquired and perfected prior to entering a live training situation, then current regimes progress the student to rating standard.

    2.   Efficiency - The use of VV Approach™ in training provides students with a cognitive framework to follow as they proceed through training exercises, as opposed to current methods that use a 'sink or swim' approach. This makes learning easier, and training more time-efficient, cost-efficient and resource-efficient.

    3.   Standardisation - All students are taught the same operating techniques, removing the problems currently caused by exposure to widely varying concepts of how traffic should be handled. As a result, all controllers will perform RADAR Control duties in a similar manner, bringing, over a period of time, new levels of standardisation to the workplace.

    4.   Student Performance Metrics - The ANSP Edition records a wide range of student performance metrics. These may be used for later comparison and analysis.


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