Definition

An advanced functionality tool the purpose of which is to:

• calculate optimum aircraft arrival sequences and times for flights approaching to defined constraint points considering preferred flight profiles, aircraft types, performance, and weight categories, airspace and runway conditions, inbound flow rate, as well as meteorological (MET) conditions and applying suitable optimisation criteria;
• present the planned inbound traffic flow at the controller working positions together with suitably generated advisories for the controller in order to meet the planned arrival sequence and times.

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Introduction

Arrival Manager (AMANs) systems have been developed and deployed in Europe, and elsewhere, over the course of many years. They are primarily designed to provide automated sequencing support for the ATCOs handling traffic arriving at an airport, continuously calculating arrival sequences and times for flights, taking into account the locally defined landing rate, the required spacing for flights arriving to the runway and other criteria.