The first ready-to-deploy use case for Victor5 is a contingency and situation awareness service for air traffic control operations in the event of service disruption that requires transitioning to ATC Zero or maintaining operations in a degraded mode. In general, Victor5 addresses contingency situations where Air Traffic Control (ATC) sub-systems fail, for en route, approach, or tower. On occasion, the situation may require operational personnel to vacate the ACC or TWR building and relocate to a secondary facility. This facility may or may not have additional backup systems in place. Victor5 allows operational personnel to maintain situational awareness during such transitions to backup equipment but also to maintain degraded operations (if the backup equipment does not exist or is not available due to a common failure with the primary equipment, like radar feed) or to safely clear the skies.
Victor5 value proposition and regulatory perspective
Victor5 can run on any modern computing equipment and only requires a last-generation web browser to display its high-end interface. When paired with a powerful device like the latest iPad Pro, Victor5 excels in performance, display quality, touch-based interactivity, and connectivity to up to a 6K external monitor, making it an incredible solution for contingency situations.
For contingencies in ACCs, Victor5 is designed with the highest safety and comfort standards. Similar to modern ATC consoles, it displays the target with position linked to its label, which includes callsign, flight level, selected flight level from mode-S, ground speed, and destination or exit point. Other relevant fields such as type of aircraft and Mach number can easily be added. A 1-minute speed vector completes the target information. A lower bar is accessible via an external mouse, but it can also be tapped directly when using a touch screen. This bar includes zoom in/out (“pinch to zoom” gesture available on a touch screen), flight level filters, and tools to measure the distance between any two flights and the quality of the received data. Additionally, Victor5 comes with a solid short-term conflict alert (STCA) that provides visual alerts to air traffic controllers. This STCA includes the current distance between the flights involved, a prediction of the crossing distance, time to the minima, and identification of the first aircraft in the crossing to facilitate separation by vectoring. The STCA is configurable to the needs of the ACC and can be paired with an automatic MTCD for longer distances, if required.
Based on a powerful platform and relying on data as our main asset, our engineers work to cover a wide variety of use cases, supporting the operational personal even during the normal operation of the ATC systems. The need to constantly improve safety while reducing the environmental impact of current aviation operations has become an urgent requirement, particularly as operational complexity increases due to factors such as the introduction of drones, urban air mobility, or changes in operational procedures like free-route airspace. Victor5 not only supports powerful digital twin models for ATC operations, but it is also capable of linking its platform to other data and models to estimate fuel consumption.
