VISUAL VECTORING

In addition to showcasing their range of expert Air Traffic Management Services, this week our partners at Air Traffic Solutions are presenting VV technology, including our new LMS, at the Saudi Airport Exhibition. See them at stand 5112. Thanks to Mike Lockwood and John Ruttiman for their great support.

Next week, the VV Enroute™ training program will be installed at the Pasay campus of the Philippine State College of Aeronautics. This is the second university in the Philippines and the fifth in the region to make use of Visual Vectoring technology as part of aviation degree programs. Thanks to Adrianne Astadan of 1Aero and Engineer Joy Cosme Amores for facilitating the launch of this product.

After more than two years of development, the VV Learning Management System (LMS) has been launched and is in final stages of testing. This technology allows our formative courses in ATC surveillance control to be delivered and supervised remotely. Performance records are uploaded into the cloud-based LMS for performance management and review. Students may be monitored and mentored using the built-in teleconferencing system. And features such as gamification, leaderboards and forums provide motivation and a sense of community.

In addition to the delivery of our existing and emerging courseware, this technology has the potential to be used for bespoke refresher training offerings and as a selection tool.

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The VV Team is developing simulation for ATC staff at CAD Timor Leste, as part of a transition to new airspace and route structures.

The simulator includes options for standalone, semi-standalone and full networked delivery, and uses speech recognition to reduce the workload for pseudo-pilots. Training will be delivered by the expert team at Air Traffic Solutions.

This is a short movie demonstrating the Primer functionality that has been incorporated into the VV Simulator and included as part of the upcoming VV Departures course. The student is required to complete ATC actions and interface updates to an on-screen script. This promotes prompt and accurate HMI, and reinforces the use of correct phraseology and procedural knowledge.

The development of VV Departures, an add-on to the VV Approach course, is nearing completion. This product teaches the management of departing SID traffic of varying performance, with complexity increasing as airspace restrictions and arriving aircraft are added into the simulation. The formulation of Release Approvals, prioritization, coordination separation, and Interface skills are the key learning outcomes of the product.

A release is expected in September 2021.

Subject matter experts have completed a third installation of VV course-ware in China, which included both the VV Approach and VV Enroute programs.

After the successful induction of local trainers in Chengdu, a relaxing time was enjoyed at a local teahouse (above).

Earlier this year, the VV team made large parts of our course-ware available free-of-charge to ATC trainees affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Over four hundred students from ten different countries have used our technology over this period.

We used the Microsoft Clickonce technology to deliver our PC-based simulator from an online Learning Management System. This technology requires a large initial download and has other well-known shortcomings.

We are now looking at using different techniques to deliver simulation across the web that will enable full performance measurement reporting into the LMS, as well as gamification and other great features.

We are in late development at the moment and plan to have a testing platform available in September 2020.