The FLB-CWP is the Controller Working Position subsystem of the Maastricht Fallback System (MFS). The FLB-CWP provides user interface functions that enable Air Traffic Controllers (ATCO), Supervisors (SUP) and Flight Data Specialists (FDS) to perform their respective tasks under fallback conditions, (that is during a planned or unplanned outage of the primary ATC system).
Each FLB-CWP system receives plot, track, flightplan, conflict and status information from other MFS subsystems, processes them locally, and presents the information, in graphical or tabular format, onto the console monitor. The user is able to interact with the presented data by using the consoles mouse and/or the keyboard. Flightplan modifications are delivered to the FLB Flight Server (FLB-FS) for distribution. Print requests are delivered to the FLB printer.
The FLB-CWP also receives and processes time information and control commands from, and provides monitoring, status and logging information to, other MFS subsystems.
FLB-CWP systems are deployed into the consoles of every ATCO, FDS and central supervisory position within the ONL, TRG and TDS partitions. As part of the FLB-CWP subsytem, one FLB-CWP Target Software Server (TSS) is deployed into every partition, to facilitate the distribution of new software images onto the FLB-CWP systems. FLB-CWP software images are created using FLB-CWP Target Generation Systems (TGS), of which a few are deployed within the support partition.
The FLB-CWP application, codecs, SNMP agents, system startup and process monitoring are nearly completely written in Tcl/Tk, with only a few modules (Track canvas item, UDP channel) in C.
The FLB-CWP was introduced within operational system 05-Jan-2006.
The target date for begin of operational use is 23-Feb-2006.
The FLB-CWP project is managed by Sebastian Wangnick. Major implementation tasks were performed http://www.42solutions.nl .