Although high-tech innovations will play an increasingly larger role in air traffic management (ATM), air traffic controllers will retain a central position of operational authority; as a result, new methods will be required to ensure safe, effective interactions between humans and technology, the U.K. Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) says.
The CAA’s CAP 1377, ATM Automation: Guidance on Human-Technology Integration, outlined methods of addressing the relationships between humans and automation in changing ATM systems.
“For the foreseeable future, humans are expected to play a key role in the delivery of … ATM, and the maintenance support of the technical systems used,” said the document, released in late February. “However, it is expected that the tasks, roles and means of the human delivering these services will evolve through the deployment of a broad range of complex automation.”
Among the new technologies being introduced into the system are remote tower syst…
