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Sbatc Manual 100
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Index
1. Station Setup Screen
1.1 TMA Selection
1.2 Runway configuration setup
1.3 Voicetest and selection
1.4 Time selection
1.5 Activate-button
1.6 SID/STAR Selection Window
2. The Scope
2.1 The Topbar
2.1.1 TTS Enable/Disable button
2.1.2 Setupwindow and radarscope symbols
2.1.3 Altitudefilter
2.1.4 Iconbuttons and time
2.2 Flighstrip Window
2.3 Aircraft symbol and datatag
2.4 Distance measuring tool
2.5 Working the scope
3. Communication
3.1 Communicating with pilots
3.1.1 Controlling with text
3.1.2 Controlling using voice
4. Controlling traffic
4.1 Controlling departures
4.2 Controlling arrivals
5. Key summary
6. Command summary
6.1 Text commands
6.2 Voice commands
I. Callsign pronunciation
After starting the program you will see the window above. This is where you setup the
simulator for this session. As you can see from the above picture there are five different fields
highlighted:
A : TMA Selection
B : Runwayconfiguration setup
C : Voicetest and selection
D : Time-selection
E : Activate-button
1.5 Activate-button
After all the above selections has been made you are ready to start the simulator. Hit the
"ACTIVATE"-button marked E to get into the action.
SID = Standard Instrument Departure : A path flown by departing aircrafts if they have
appropriate equipment
STAR = Standard Terminal Arrival Route : A path flown by arriving aircrafts with the
appropriate equipment
Some runways have more than one SID/STAR for some/all TMA handoff points. If this is the
case the window above will appear and you are prompted to select which one to use for each
handoff point. In Stockholm TMA, using runway 08 for departures will show the window
above. The procedures in this case, AROS 1L and ROKNI 1R, ends at the same point but using
AROS 1L will make pilots fly a left turn (or lima) procedure, that is the pilots will turn left
after takeoff, while choosing ROKNI 1R will make pilots fly a right turn (or romeo) procedure.
You will be prompted to choose a SID for every handoff point that has multiple procedures.
2. The Scope
The scope consists of three major parts, which can be viewed in the above picture:
In this chapter we will focus on the Topbar and its functions, and the Radarscope and how to configure it.
Information about the Communication area is found in Chapter 3.
All information not marked in the above picture doesn't have any actual function at this moment. It is just there for
visual enhancement. Let us take a closer look at the functioning parts, starting with the button found under "Operating
Modes" marked A.
This button toggles between the text displayed in the above picture "NORMAL" and the text "OFF". When indicating
"NORMAL" the Text-To-Speech(TTS)-engine is activated which means that the pilots will use voice to
communicate with you. When in "OFF"-mode the pilots will use text. Swap between the two by clicking the button.
The button marked B in the Topbar-picture is displayed above. This button is used to bring up the Scope Setup
Window shown below:
First look at the part called "Color Setup" marked A in the above picture. This part lets you configure which colors to
use when drawing different objects on the scope. First select which object to change by clicking any of the buttons in
the field marked A. Then set the wanted color in the field marked B. You set a color by either entering the values for
the red (R), blue (B) and green (G) intensities in the textfields, or you can use the "+" and "-" buttons to change
intensity of selected color (R,G or B). In the picture above we're about to change the color of the "TMA Boundary"
object. The field between the "+" and "-" buttons are colored in the current selected color.
The area marked C called "Scope Setup" is where you select what objects to display on scope. In the picture above all
objects have been selected. Select/deselect an object by clicking the appropriate button. In the picture below you can
see what a VOR, NDB and FIX looks like at the scope with the IDs (codes) selected:
2.1.3 Altitudefilter
In these textfields you may enter the altitudes where you want the aircrafts to be displayed on your scope. The
number entered in the left field is the lower altitude from where aircrafts are displayed, that is if you enter "100" in
the left textfield only aircrafts above FL100 (10000ft) will be drawn. The same formula is valid for the higher altitude
value, the number entered times 100 gives the altitude from which the aircrafts is not displayed if above that altitude.
To avoid confusion it is best left at the default setting "0" and "999".
The clock is selfexplanatory and from left to right the buttons are as follows:
Exit simulator
Show information about simulator
Pause/Resume simulator
Speed up simulator (x10 real time), use only when no traffic in sector
To access the flightstrip window press F5 and it will appear on the screen. First of all there are three colors that can
appear on the flightstrips as shown above. The first type of flightstrip you will encounter is the grey one. This is the
color of a flightstrip not yet accepted by you from other controller. When clicking/selecting a flightstrip it will
become yellow and the white color is indicated when the flightstrip/aircraft is accepted but not selected.
The info shown on a flightstrip is as follows:
A: Aircraft callsign
B: Aircrafttype
C: Current speed
D: Datacode, used when communicating wih other controllers
E: Estimated time of sectorentry, could be delayed
F: Indication if aircraft follows any standard procedure or expects vectors. Either SID, STAR or Vect
G: Current clearance given, first cleared altitude or flightlevel and last cleared speed
H: Entry-/exitpoint or current executed standard procedure
I: Flightplan, departure airport - arrival airport
When doubleclicking a flightstrip another window will appear, namely the Flight Information Window where you
find some more information regarding the selected flight. F.i. if we were to doubleclick the flightstrip for "KFB480"
we would see a window looking something like this:
As you can see in the picture above the actual aircraft is drawn as a triangle. This is the way the aircraft will be drawn
as long as it is under your control. When not under your control the aircraft is drawn as a square, and also in a
different color but we will get back to this when looking at the special cases. For now let us look at the datatag, which
is the three lines of text to the right of the aircraft symbol in the above picture.
The first line, indicated by A, will always display the callsign.
Second line, indicated by B, contains information about aircraft altitude. The number to the left of "+" is current
flightlevel/altitude and the number to the right of "+" is cleared flightlevel/altitude. Also the "+" can turn into "-" if
aircraft is descending and "=" if the aircraft is maintaining a certain flightlevel/altitude.
As we will see soon the third line is the one that changes the most, but in the ordinary datatag it displays the
following information:
C: Aircraft datacode
D: Aircraft groundspeed
Now let us look at some different possibilities for the datatag, starting with the datatags for a departing aircraft:
A shows the datatag before tower has handed it over to you which is done automatically when aircraft reaches a
certain altitude. As you can see, the difference with the ordinary datatag is the color, which is green for aircrafts not
controlled by you, and the fact that the aircraft symbol is a square instead of a triangle which also indicates that you
don't have control of that aircraft. Also there is a "R" to the left on the third row. This indicates that a handover is in
progress.
B1 and B2 alternates when you have initiated a handoff to areacontrol. As you can see the color is now darkred which
is the color of someone awaiting confirmation of a handoff or handoff is accepted but not executed, in this case you
awaiting areacontrol to accept handoff. The only difference here is that the speedindication is alternated with the ID
of the controller to whom you sent your handoff request.
When areacontrol accepts handoff, as seen in image C, the color remains darkred but the third line will constantly
display the "R" and to the right the ID of the accepting controller.
Finally when you've asked pilot to contact areacontrol, the datatag will turn into image D, indicating that you no
longer have control of the aircraft (compare with image A). Instead of speed it displays the controller ID of the station
now controlling aircraft.
Now let's take a quick look at the different datatags for an arriving aircraft to see the differences and equalities:
A1 and A2 are similiar to B1 and B2 in the departure datatags picture with the difference that now areacontrol is
handing the aircraft off to you (H-ARR).
Image B indicates that you have initiated a handoff to tower controller.
In C the tower located at airport ESSA has accepted your handoff request, and in image D the tower at ESSA is now
controlling the aircraft.
Last but not least we will look at a situtation you want to avoid if possible, namely the collision alert:
To avoid collision alerts make sure you keep at least 4nm or 1000ft separation between aircrafts.
The distance measuring tool is accesed by pressing and holding down left mouse button while draging cursor to
wanted position. As seen in the above picture we wanted to know the distance to BALVI from SAS555. At the first
row we can read the distance which is 7nm in the picture. The second row is the heading to that point from startpoint
selected, in this case it is heading 296. Because we placed the starting point at an aircraft we also got information in
the third row (default is "---"). The third row is the time to arrival at selected point measured in minutes. In the
picture we can see that SAS555 would need 1 minute to get to BALVI if it was heading there.
3. Communication
At the bottom of the scope you will find the communication area shown above. The area marked A is the field where
you communicate with other pilots using text, called the Pilot-Comm field. Commands available will be discussed in
Chapter 3.1.1 Controlling with text. The field marked B is an indicator for voicetransmission. When you issue a
voicecommand by pressing Ctrl the indicator will turn red while Ctrl is held down indicating a transmission is being
done. How to control using voice is discussed in Chapter 3.1.2 Controlling with voice. Finally the field marked C is
the ATC-Comm field used when issuing or accepting handoff to/from other controllers. The only valid command in
that field is "+" followed by the aircraft datacode found either on the flightstrip (see Chapter 2.2) or on the aircraft
datatag (see Chapter 2.3).
Command Explanation
Key
shortcut
CC
Contact control [if you want realism, add the actual freq after CC, compare CT]
N/A
CT XXX.
yy
N/A
DM XXX,
YYYYY
Downarrow
CM XXX,
YYYYY
Uparrow
TL xxx
Leftarrow
TR xxx
Rightarrow
FH xxx
N/A
IS xxx
Pageup
RS xxx
Pagedown
PD
XXXXX
N/A
CI XXX
N/A
CV XXX
N/A
SH
Report heading
N/A
In the table above there is a Key shortcut specified for some commands. These can be used instead of actually typing
f.i. the letters CM. By pressing Uparrow these letters will be written automatically and you just have to enter the
altitude/flightlevel.
Now lets take a look at some example communications:
Entered command
Actual interpretation
BAW1544 PD ERK IS 270 Speedbird 1544 proceed direct to Erken, increase speed to 270
FIN453 CT 118.5
When entering a command perhaps you enter a command incorrectly and would like to change it before sending it
using Enter. To get to the position where you want to change something you must use ALT+Leftarrow and ALT
+Rightarrow since Leftarrow/Rightarrow alone is a shortcut-key for TL (turn left) and TR (turn right). If you have
already sent an incorrect line you may bring up the last transmitted line by pressing "-". There will be some more
examples in Chapter 4 where we discuss how to control traffic in more specific terms.
Example communication
Analogous textcmd
TL 120
TL 120
TR 120
TR 120
FH 100
DM 2500
DM 120
CM 4000
CM 160
IS 180
RS 180
N/A
PD TEB
Go direct to XXX
PD ERK
PD HMR
Proceed to XXX
"Proceed to Tebby"
PD TEB
CC
CT 118.5
CI 01L
CV 26
"Say heading"
SH
SH
At first the speechrecognition may seem like more trouble than fun but hang in there because it will be worth it when
you start to direct traffic with fast and precise voicecommands just like the real controllers do!
4. Controlling traffic
This part is an illustrative guide about how you control an aircraft from the time you take over control until you hand
it off to someone else. The guide is divided into two parts, Controlling departures and Controlling arrivals, since it
differs some. First lets see how to control aircrafts coming into your sector.
There is no traffic under our control but, as you can see in the image above, a flightstrip has appeared and, as the
color grey indicates, we have not yet accepted the handoff from tower. Just above the ATC-Comm field you can see a
transmission sent to you from Tower asking you to accept handoff.
When clicking the grey flightstrip you inform tower that you accept the handoff. As you can see in the image above
there is also a transmission sent to tower accepting handoff for KFB480.
The aircraft will check in with you after takeoff and then youre in control. Let us command the aircraft to climb to
FL120 and fly direct Nortel. This is easy, just issue the appropriate commands either using voice or text. The text
command can look like this: "480 CM 120 PD NTL" (CM - Climb and maintain, PD - Proceed direct)
KFB480 is making a steady climb towards Nortel and, as the image above indicates, he has passed FL100 so we can
initiate a handoff to the next controller by entering +802. The + indicates ATC to ATC communication and 802 is the
aircraft datacode (which can be found either on the flightstrip or on the aircraft datatag).
While waiting for the next controller to accept, the flightinfo turns red. When an R comes up you can hand it over to
the next controller by typing "480 CC" (CC - Contact Control). The controller will also accept the handoff by sending
you a message through the ATC-Comm module.
After you handed the aircraft over it turns green. By pressing +802 again the datatag will disappear and you will only
see the echo.
And there you have it, a successful handling of a departing aircraft! Now lets take a look at how to guide an arriving
aircraft safely to its destination.
Time to handle some arriving traffic. Our first arrival has appeared as seen in the image above, its Scandinavian 904
from Newark, New York. Accept the arrival by entering +141 in the ATC-Comm field.
After accepting the aircraft turns magenta and checks in. Lets clear it down to FL70 and give him heading 090 since
there isnt any other traffic in the area. Using textcommand: "904 DM 70 FH 090" (DM - Descend and maintain, FH Fly Heading. You can also use TL - Turn Left heading 090).
After an additional command earlier, clearing SAS904 to altitude 2500ft, hes now on the downwind leg for rwy 26
which is our selected landing runway.
Lets clear him for approach: "904 FH 230 CI 26" (CI - Cleared Instrument approach rwy 26).
SAS904 is turning onto the localizer centerline, looks good. Initiate handoff to tower by entering +141 in the ATCComm field.
Tower accepted the aircraft. Lets ask the pilot to contact tower now: "904 CT 118.5" (CT 118.5 - Contact Tower on
118 decimal 5)
SAS904 is now under tower-control expecting to land shortly, and that means our work is done.
5. Key summary
Here we will summarize the different keys used in the simulator.
Scope keys/General keys
F1
Leftarrow
TL
F5
Rightarrow
TR
(Shift+)F11
Uparrow
CM
(Shift+)F12
Downarrow
DM
CTRL
[tapping]
Pageup
IS
CTRL
[holding
down]
Activate voicetransmission
Pagedown
RS
ALT
+Leftarrow
ALT
+Rightarrow
6. Command summary
This part contains a summary of all commands, both text and voice, that can be issued to pilots.
This is the same information found in previous chapters but here to make it easy to print only
the commands.
Key
shortcut
CC
Contact control [if you want realism, add the actual freq after CC,
compare CT]
N/A
CT XXX.
yy
N/A
DM XXX,
YYYYY
Downarrow
CM XXX,
YYYYY
Uparrow
TL xxx
Leftarrow
TR xxx
Rightarrow
FH xxx
N/A
IS xxx
Pageup
RS xxx
Pagedown
PD
XXXXX
N/A
CI XXX
N/A
CV XXX
N/A
SH
Report heading
N/A
Example communication
Analogous textcmd
TL 120
TL 120
TR 120
FH 100
DM 2500
CM 4000
Climb to (flightlevel/altitude)
XXX (feet)
CM 160
RS 180
N/A
PD TEB
Go direct to XXX
PD ERK
PD HMR
Proceed to XXX
"Proceed to Tebby"
PD TEB
CC
CT 118.5
CI 01L
CV 26
"Say heading"
SH
SH
I. Callsign pronunciation
CODE
Callsign
Pronunciation
SAS
Scandinavian
"s k ae n d ih n ae v ih
aa n"
BAW
Speedbird
"s p iy d b er d"
FIN
Finnair
"f ih n ae r"
AFR
Air France
"ae r f r aa n s"
SKX
Skyexpress
"s k y eh k s p r eh s"
DLH
Lufthansa
"l uw f t h aa n s aa"
SWR
Swiss
"s w iy s"
KFB
Bluefinn
"b l uw f ih n"
EXC
Echo Express
"eh k uw eh k s p r eh s"
THA
Thai
"t ay"
WIF
Wideroe
"v ih d eh r ow"
ELL
Estonian
"eh s t ow n iy aa n"
BTI
Air Baltic
"ae r b ao l t ih k"
AFL
Aeroflot
"ae r uh f l ao t"
PLK
Pulkovo
"p ah l k uh v uh"
KLM
KLM
"K L M"
AUA
Austrian
"ao s t r iy ah n"
SAB
Estail
"eh s t ey l"
LOT
Lot
"l ao t"
IRA
Iranair
"ih r aa n ae r"
VKG
Viking
"v ay k iy ng"
SNB
Sterling
"s t ah r l ih ng"
IBE
Iberia
"ay b eh r ih aa"
MAH
Malev
"m aa l eh v"
JKK
Spanair
"s p aa n ae r"
CSA
CSA Lines
"C S A l ay n s"
NVR
Navigator
"n ae v ih g ey t ao r"
BLX
Bluescan
"b l uw s k ae n"
DAN
Maerskair
"m ae r s k ae r"
CTN
Croatia
"k r uw ey zh aa"
ICE
Iceair
"ay s ae r"
ELL
Luxair
"l ah k s ae r"
TAP
Air Portugal
"ae r p ao r ch uh g aa l"
SWV
Flying swede
"f l ay ih ng s w iy d"
NDC
Nordic
"n ao r d ih k"
SRL
Starline
"s t aa r l ay n"
GWI
German Wings
"y ah r m ax n w ih ng
s"
NAX
Nor Shuttle
"n ao r sh ah t l"
CCA
Air China
"ae r ch ay n ax"
AZA
Alitalia
"ax l ih t aa l iy ax"
JAT
JAT
"jh _ ey _ t iy"
GMI
Germaina
"y ah r m ey n ih ax"
AMC
Air Malta
"ae r m ao l t ax"
LIL
Lithuania Air
"l iy th uw ey n ih ax ae
r"
FLY
Flybird
"f l ay b ah r d"
ADI
Audeli
"ao d ae l iy"
NRD
Northrider
"n ao r th r ay d r"
BGH
Balkan Holidays
"b aa l k ax n h ao l iy d
ey s"