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FUTURE ATM CONCEPTS EVALUATION TOOL
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The Future ATM Concepts Evaluation Tool (FACET) is a flexible Air Traffic Management (ATM) simulation environment that has been established for exploring, developing, and evaluating advanced ATM concepts. The system can operate in a playback, simulation, live, or hybrid mode using the FAA's Enhanced Traffic Management System (ETMS) data along with wind and weather data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on a laptop computer. Examples of advanced concepts that have been developed and tested in FACET include: aircraft self-separation; integrated aircraft and space launch vehicle operations; aggregate flow models of the NAS; and reroute conformance monitoring. The later of these concepts was deployed in the FAA's operational ETMS system. The success of FACET has lead to its adoption by the FAA, airlines, universities, and numerous companies. For example, Flight Dimensions International, who is the world's leading vendor of aircraft situational displays, recently integrated FACET with their highly successful Flight Explorer (FE) product.

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