FPDAM is an advanced software tool that provides an interactive environment for three-dimensional design of Instrument Flight Procedures, for airspace management and air navigation using conventional NAVAIDS and RNAV concepts.
FPDAM ensures tight control of the system configuration, design elements and design criteria related to flight safety issues through connection to a controlled aeronautical database.
FPDAM’s construction rules are compliant with the following design criteria:
- ICAO Doc 8168 PANSOPS;
- FAA TERPS;
- Canadian TP308; and
- NATO APATC-1(A).
FPDAM provides a set of user-friendly tools for the following tasks:
• Designing new Instrument Flight Procedures for new airports, airport upgrades or for updating Instrument Flight Procedures;
• Designing airways and air routes while ensuring lateral separation and MEA/MEL/LSALT verification;
• Re-Routing or re-planning airways and routes when NAVAIDS are temporarily out of service;
• Definition and modifications to bounded airspace;
• Managing airspace and areas of temporary restriction to air navigation during military exercises, air shows or other significant events;
• Aerodrome surface (OLS) construction and evaluation of the surrounding terrain and obstacle environment;
• Analysing obstruction clearance of building development surrounding the aerodrome;
• Analysing obstruction clearance for aerodrome development master planning; and
• Checking Instrument Flight Procedures in fly-through mode (flight movies).
| FPDAM: |
The professional system for flight procedure design and maintenance. |
| FPDAM Airport: | ICAO Annex 4 and 14 surface construction and evaluation, geodesic computation and basic FPDAM functions. |
| RNP/PBN: | Tools for the design of RNP procedures. |
| FPDAM AeroChart: | Builds IAC on-the-fly from the FPDAM database. |
| FPDAM Procedure Encoder: |
Supports ARINC encoding and final storage into the AIS database. |
| FPDAM Radar Data Viewer: |
Displays radar tracks and plots recorded by the MRT system. |
| FPDAM Obstacles Charting: | Creates ICAO Obstacle Charts Type A and B. |
| FPDAM SAPET: | Simulates GNSS satellite performance against terrain influence and aircraft altitude. |
| FPDAM AeroCAD: | A stand-alone version of FPDAM containing the basic modules for the construction of instrument flight procedures, ATS geography and geodesic computation without connection to an external aeronautical database. |
• An Aeronautical and Cartographic Database based on Oracle RDBMS;
• Bentley Systems Microstation XM (fully integrated into the GIS);
• A module library containing the ICAO PANSOPS, FAA TERPS, Canadian TP308 and NATO APATC-1(A) design criteria;
• Connectivity module to the Integrated AeroDB Suite (IAS);
• SID, STAR, Approach (SSA) data export interface to AeroDB and EAD.
The design environment automates aeronautical functions and supports the user in the development of the Instrument Flight Procedures with visualisation of 2D and 3D protection areas superimposed onto the aeronautical charts or terrain database displayed.
Some of the design functions include:
• Calculation and display of clearance planes from user-defined inputs such as aircraft performance category, glide path angle, missed approach gradient and inbound course etc.;
• The use of colour coded images for checking clearance planes for obstacle penetrations in accordance with defined Obstacle Clearance criteria;
• Creation of all approach and departure segments;
• Individual or grouped display of all segments;
• Calculation of turning parameters;
• ICAO Annex 4 and Annex 14 Surfaces for charting purposes;
• ICAO Collision Risk Model (CRM) for visualising and selecting fixed or movable obstacles;
• Creation or extraction of aerodrome, runway, NAVAID, waypoint, routes and obstruction database;
• 3D graphic symbolisation linked to the database;
• Obstruction positioning and management via coordinates and ASCII files;
• Calculation of magnetic deviation, bearing and distance measurement from embedded Geodesic and geographic tools;
• Individual 3D graphical procedure segment elements with attached attributes specifying construction criteria;
• Construction of flight segments and significant points such as wind spirals, fixes and waypoints,
• Construction of tolerance areas for VOR, NDB, LLZ, ILS, DME, PAR, SRA, RNAV, GBAS, SBAS and RNP;
• Construction of tolerance areas for standard departure procedures for conventional and RNAV systems;
• Construction of tolerance areas for Contingency procedures in relation to “one engine out operation” segment one, two and three analysis;
• OCA/H or MDA/H and PDG calculator; and
• Comprehensive Procedure Report builder.
FPDAM can be connected to its own database or to the central database for AIS oriented application tools, called AeroDB.
Some of the main features include:
• Query by forms of all aeronautical-related items;
• Centralised server and security;
• Fully guided database access and manipulation;
• Integrates the FPDAM and AeroDB database tables into the Approach Chart;
• Data import from ASCII files is provided for:
o Aerodromes;
o NAVAIDS;
o Reporting Points;
o Bounded Airspaces;
o Routes;
o Obstacles (CRM, AIP, Projected coordinates, etc);
o SID, STAR, APPROACH encoding solution for ARINC output.
• Geo-referencing of Raster data (Aerodrome Charts, ICAO Obstacle Charts, Maps, images, etc)
• 3D visualisation of flight procedures, routes, zones, NAVAIDS, reporting points, runways, etc;
• Digital terrain maps and scale management;
• Graphical Database query;
• Aerodrome obstacle positioning and management;
• AIP obstacle positioning and management;
• Geographic file creation;
• User settings for colour management, scale, etc.
• Routes segment protection area builder;
• Turn area segment protection area builder;
• Route segment MEL/MEA/LSALT calculation;
• Bounded Airspace assembly, protection and database storage;
• Route Assembly and database storage;
• Radar Map utilities;
• ATS routes protection area builder and STAR construction.
• Protection area builder for En-route, Holding, MSA, Base Tune, DF Turn, Circling, Initial, Intermediate, Final and Missed Approach phases of flight,
• Terrain and obstacle penetration analysis for all phases of flight;
• ILS OAS and BASIC surfaces builder;
• OLS builder;
• Departure area builder.
• Protection area builder for Holding, DF Turn, Initial, Intermediate, Final and Missed Approach phases of flight,
• Terrain and obstacle penetration analysis for all phases of flight;
• Waypoint handling
• Automated RNAV and RNP holding area builder;
• En-Route protection area builder;
• RNAV and RNP Departure segment area builder;
• OCA/H, MDA/H calculator for all phases of flight;
• Customisable forms to test the GBAS and SBAS procedures.
The FPDAM system includes:
• Embedded geodesic usage for FIX creation;
• Geodesic Arc and Radius creation;
• Intersection between geodesic radials, arcs, lines, Parallels and Meridians;
• Minimum geodesic distance to radials, arcs, geodesic lines parallels and meridians.
• Flight Procedure segment tagging and labelling;
• Flight Procedure report builder;
• Flight Procedure compiler and rules checker;
• Flight Procedure delivery and database insertion.
FPDAM can evaluate the minimum altitude for all phases of flight using Digital Terrain Models, imported obstacle features, obstacle database features, ASCII files and many other formats.
The terrain data can be imported from ASCII files, DTED, scanned paper charts and all other standard formats.
The MOC/ROC value is automatically loaded according to the procedure type and the phase of flight. OCA/H and DA/H are automatically computed and stored in the database.
A complete list of obstacles is displayed for the designer with all the relevant parameters such as coordinates, altitude, MOC/ROC required and obstacle description
A graphic symbol is displayed to the check the location of the obstacle to the designer.
During construction of the procedure the SSA data is automatically saved in the FPDAM database in accordance with ARINC format.
The designer can add attributes to each feature of the working file.
The Path/Terminator codes can be added during the procedure elements tagging.
The SSA data can be exported or imported to/from the FPDAM system to the IDS AeroDB in XML/AIXM format while conforming to ICAO and Eurocontrol regulations.
• Windows 2000/XP;
• Bentley Microstation XM;
• Oracle Client.
Options: at least one licence for a work group, for importing geographic maps and creating 3D terrain models.
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