air traffic control simulator instrutions beginners

Aircraft are flying on routes called "airways". SENLO (on the image) is a waypoint, CAN (based at Caen, north of France) is a ground station that helps pilots by sending signals. The white point is the aircraft, the white circles are the past positions. This represents an aircraft as controllers can see them on the radar screen.

Line 1 of the aircraft image:

"41" is the ground speed: 41*10=410 knots, action possible by click and drag on this button, to move the aircraft label
The "S" symbol means that the aircraft is Data Link equipped. In the simulation, action possible on this button, to drag the aircraft

Line 2:

"BAW000" is the call name of the aircraft Speed Bird 000 (British Airways), action possible by click and drag on this button, to "shoot" the aircraft in frequency

Line 3:

"330" is the actual flight level: 330*100=33000 feet
"_" is the tendency bar (see if the aicraft is climbing, is stable like here, or descending)
"330" is the cleared flight level: the level we want the aircraft to be. Action possible on this button

Line 4:

"gelta" is the last point of the sector the aicraft is flying to, action possible on this button, to give "direct" point

Line 5:

"C" is a button to give a relative or absolute heading, action possible on this button
"V" is a button to give speeds in mach or knots, action possible on this button

Line 6:

"c090" is the present heading
"410k" is the speed

What to do? Begin by this rule:

There must be a distance of at least, 5 nautical miles between aircraft at the same actual flight level. 5NM are equal to 0.7 inches on the maps
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You can move your mouse on the image above to see some of the things that awaits you... But keep in mind that in the Flash simulation, it is not "like this" all the calculations are done, in order to provide a highly interactive simulation.