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™ 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.
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 emphasised;
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.
