Multiple-Role Working Positions — A Simulator Designed to Evolve
The way ATCO training is organised today may not be the way it is organised five or ten years from now.
Different exercises require different combinations of Controller and Pseudo-Pilot Working Positions. A training organisation may need one large integrated exercise today — and several independent training sessions tomorrow.
Technology evolves as well. With the progressive introduction of AI-powered pseudo-pilot capabilities, part of the workload traditionally handled by human pseudo-pilots can increasingly be supported by automation.
A long-life ATC simulator should be ready for these changes.
In a traditional fixed architecture, working positions are dedicated to specific roles. This means the simulator often has to be dimensioned around the maximum expected number of each workstation type — even if some of them remain underutilised during many exercises.
The ANSART ATC Simulator takes a different approach.
Its working positions operate within a common software environment with configurable operational roles. Compatible positions can be assigned according to the requirements of a particular exercise rather than being permanently tied to one function.
This makes it possible to adapt the same simulator infrastructure for:
Different combinations of Controller and Pseudo-Pilot positions;
Individual, team and multi-position exercises;
Tower, Ground, Approach and combined training;
Multiple independent exercises running in parallel;
Evolving levels of pseudo-pilot automation.
As training programmes, staffing models and technology evolve, simulator resources can be reconfigured accordingly.
The result is better hardware utilisation, more efficient capacity planning and greater flexibility for future expansion.
Most importantly, the organisation is not locked into assumptions made at the time the simulator was purchased.
Training requirements change. Technology evolves. Your simulator should evolve with them.
One infrastructure. Multiple roles. Built to evolve.
To learn more about the Tower and Radar ATCO Simulator, visit https://www.ansartbv.com/products-for-aviation-market/air-traffic-control-simulator or contact ANSART at https://www.ansartbv.com/contacts
