How does the air traffic control system work?
There are three elements to control. Click here to see a map of air traffic control sectors Firstly there is the Radar Scope which shows where the aircraft are, which aircraft is coming in and what height they are going. Then you have the Flight Data Processing System next to it, which is what went down at West Drayton. This has all the flight numbers on it and this information comes from a flight plan. All the information is filed beforehand by the pilot. The radar controller and the flight progress controller work on the progress of the flight together as it comes in. Thirdly you have the Communication System which is a radio link between the air traffic controller and the pilot. What generally triggers the computer to crash? In this case I think it was new software. But it all depends on the airport and the computers themselves. These computers tend to carry much more information than a normal computer system. They are built solely to deal with air traffic control and when the softw
