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E-STRIP > ENHANCED WORKFLOW FOR AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS
ENHANCED WORKFLOW
FOR AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS
Flight progress strips play a central role in air-traffic control. Saab e-Strip is
an electronic flight progress strip system which may be integrated with other
tower and airport systems. It is user-friendly and highly configurable and can
be customised to fit both large and small airports.
Traditional paper strips have several around freely, just as on a paper strip board. movement, transferring and jotting down
limitations: they are time-consuming to print All movements are smoothly animated so notes. The system is very flexible to work
and update, the information on the strips that the controller clearly sees where the with. Once configured with the operational
stays with the controller, and the possibilities strips will end up. routines of the airport, it allows dynamic
for integration with safety nets are limited. splitting and combining of roles and areas of
At a modern commercial airport, where responsibility between job positions.
traffic and safety demands are continuously Suggested strip movements and transfers will
increasing, these drawbacks must be thus depend on the role of the specific job
addressed. e-Strip is highly customisable to position.
support the specific needs of the
controllers and is easy to integrate with other
tower and airport systems to enable RADAR AFTN A-SMGCS
information sharing.
With e-Strip the user gains the added
support of an electronic system. As long as
the strips are moved according to the STAND/GATE
E-STRIP ACC/APP
PLANNING
configured routines, the system will provide
support to the controller and make
suggestions as to what should be done.
But e-Strip also allows strip movements and
WEB
transfers outside of the basic workflow in SAAB FDP SERVICE DATA LINK
order to support extraordinary situations. CLIENT
e-Strip has a state-of-the-art user-friendly e-Strip supports any actions that can be
user interface where strips may be moved performed with paper strips, such as free Saab e-Strip interfaces
E-STRIP > ENHANCED WORKFLOW FOR AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS
FLIGHT PLAN INTERFACE STRIP LAYOUT INTEGRATION WITH OTHER SAAB PRODUCTS
• Directly via AFTN e-Strip uses a number of different strips e-Strip is very flexible to develop and
depending on what a strip represents. The strip well-integrated with our other products, due to
• Via Saab’s FDP system, which acts as an
layout is highly customisable and the layout its service-oriented architecture (SOA).
AFTN terminal and a fallback solution for
used for a certain strip can also be easily
printing paper strips
configured. Examples of how this could
• Via ADEXP or OLDI from another flight plan be used:
processing system FDP E-STRIP RDP
• Different layout for ARR/DEP
FLIGHT STRIP CREATION • Different colours for different runways
• Automatic creation by configurable role • Different layout for VFR/IFR flights

conditions using e.g. EOBT, ETA, reception You can customize colour, skin/background,
of DEP messages, OLDI activation messages SERVICES
fonts, size, field placement and bitmap figures. IDP A-SMGCS
(SOA)
• Blank strips or predefined template strips can A graphical strip editor supports creation of the
be manually created at any time strip layouts.
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES CONFIGURATION Examples of features enabled by this

Examples of configurable items: integration are:
• Configurable with a set of standard roles
and their associated areas of responsibilities • Transfer sequences (based on AORs) • Linked presentation. Flight objects are
(AORs), such as taxiways and runways highlighted in all systems when interacting
• Runway usage per runway combination with them.
• The roles and AORs can be freely combined
• Arrival and departure route allocation • Automatic control of stop bars based on
or split online
• Activation (creation) rules for flight strips clearances.
• Automatic support for the placement of strips
when combining or splitting • Default clearance limits when taxiing
AVAILABILITY
• Assistant and supervisor roles with limited The configuration format is XML but tools can
functionality and capability to display a also be provided for converting from other The redundancy platform used for e-Strip
passive view of all non-responsible strips formats, such as Microsoft Excel. enables high availability with low latency and
quick recovery from hardware failures.
DATA LINK DEPARTURE CLEARANCE (DCL) MAINTENANCE
• Integrated data link clearance compliant with The system comes with a set of tools for
ED-85A monitoring and controlling the system. The
following functions are provided:
• DCL actions and clearance requests are
handled directly on the strips • System monitoring with presentation on both
the e-Strip screen and in a web client
• Manual, semi-automatic or fully automatic
• Installation configuration and monitoring for
• Supports both ARINC and SITA as the data
use when replacing hardware
link service provider
• Tools for configuring and managing services
INTEGRATION WITH A-SMGCS
AUTOMATED FUNCTIONS
• Flight plans/flight objects
Examples of automated functions:
• Alarms: runway incursions, taxiway collisions,
violations • Calculation of ATA/ATD
• Clearances • SSR code allocation using local code bank
• Automatic/manual stop bar control • SID and flight level allocation and logics
• Stop bar status • Non-conformity alarms for e.g. diverging

runways and flights, landing warnings,
• Use of runways
indisposed departure routes, SID/RWY/XPT
• Vehicle tracks to prepare vehicle strips rules
• Invoice data
EXAMPLES OF STRIP LAYOUTS
TECHNICAL DATA AND SPECIFICATIONS
Interfaces
AFTN Send/receive flight plan related messages
OLDI For example for transferring strips to ACC/APP systems
Data Link Departure clearance
XML-based interface Stand/gate information
A-SMGCS Exchange flight plans, alarms and clearances
Web service Open SOAP-based interface for retrieving flight information
Platform
Operating system Windows XP / Windows 7
Screen Wacom Cintiq 21”
Server computers PC (standard)
Client computers PC (standard), 512 Mb graphics, dual network cards Wacom Cintiq 21”
Redundancy
Network Dual network cards in all computers
Servers Server cluster (at least 3 computers) with recovery times of less than
one second without losing any data
Client computers Emergency take-over procedure if a client computer or its screen fails
External interfaces All interfaces support having redundant connections
System configuration
Parameter database XML documents
Strip layout XML documents (edited by a specific tool)
Other
CBT Configurable built-in CBT-application for training or exam purposes Wacom Cintiq pen
Specifications subject to change without notice Document id: LA-BR-20110216-1
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ELECTRONIC FLIGHT

PROGRESS STRIP E-STRIP

FLIGHT STRIP CREATION • Different colours for different runways

• Automatic creation by configurable role • Different layout for VFR/IFR flights

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES CONFIGURATION Examples of features enabled by this

DATA LINK DEPARTURE CLEARANCE (DCL) MAINTENANCE

• Clearances • SSR code allocation using local code bank

• Stop bar status • Non-conformity alarms for e.g. diverging

TECHNICAL DATA AND SPECIFICATIONS

Specifications subject to change without notice Document id: LA-BR-20110216-1

www.saabgroup.com Saab Security

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