scope:

- The New York Common IFR Room (NYCIFRR) currently located at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), Jamaica, NY, has IFR control responsibility for aircraft operating at airports in the New York Metropolitan area. Its area of responsibility covers the area of approximately 40 miles of JFK within which over 1.2 million IFR operations occur annually. An ARTS IA radar and beacon tracking and alphanumeric display system couples two airport surveillance radars to 21 controller displays. Increasing operational requirements dictate that the present facility be functionally enhanced, expanded and relocated to Hempstead, NY. The new facility, to be called New York TRACON, is to be furnished an ARTS IIIA system. The system will process and track primary and secondary radar (beacon) derived aircraft data and display it on an air traffic situation display together with broadband video. The processed data will be automatically and semi-automatically displayed in the form of symbology and alphanumerics representing aircraft position, identification, Mode C pressure altitude, target velocity and radar beacon code readout. The system permits the operator (air traffic controller) to enter or retrieve data and selectively display, alter or delete data consistent with operational needs, In addition, it will provide the capability for intra-facility communication of stored and active air traffic control information as well as data/message interchange with ARTCC computer systems. An on-line capability to generate and control simulated aircraft targets for training purposes will also be available.

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