Communications, Navigation, Surveillance/
Air Traffic Management (CNS/ATM)

Course Rationale

CNS technologies and ATM procedures are evolving in many important ways. Aviation professionals need to understand emerging CNS technologies and associated ATM improvements and learn how they impact airport and airspace operations.

Course Description

This course builds upon the Introduction to Air Traffic Management, and describes specific CNS technologies including air-ground, ground-ground communications; ground-based and satellite-based navigation and surveillance. The discussion of today's systems also includes ATC automation, airspace management, and air traffic management technologies and procedures. The course also provides an overview of technology implementation within the US and other countries. This course acknowledges the need to improve all of these technologies and procedures, and it examines modernization and enhancements for the near future, including Performance-based Air Traffic Management and Area Navigation/Required Navigation Performance (RNAV/RNP) implementation, for example. The course includes a demonstration of CAASD's CNS/ATM lab facilities.

Course Objectives

• To provide an overview of the National Airspace and Airborne Systems
• To describe current CNS/ATM technologies
• To describe future CNS/ATM technologies
• To describe the worldwide (ICAO) implementaion of new CNS/ATM systems

Cost

One Day Course: $600
Three Day Course: $1,300

FAA employees will be invoiced upon completion of the course. The above-listed cost may be used as an estimate.

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