Formalized description of flight dispatchers’ activities with slot messages

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of the flight dispatchers’ complex activities while working with messages on the organization of air traffic flows. Based on expert information, typical operation situations in the airline have been identified, the probabilities of their occurrence have been determined. The decomposition scheme and algorithms of flight dispatchers’ activity while working with the messages concerning slots have been made. The description of flight dispatchers’ activity with messages on the organization of air traffic flows using the decomposition procedure and flowcharts of algorithms has been analysed and worked out. Flight dispatchers process a lot of different information, while performing many professional tasks: obtaining information, encoding and decoding data and disseminating processed information as air traffic flows messages; interaction with the Aeronautical Information Service and others and it can often occur in a time and deficit mode. The training factor while dealing with professional duties is important to reduce and avoid errors, so it is necessary to analyze this complex activity of compiling, transmitting and disseminating information on the organization of air traffic flows and systematize it. Such systematization will be the basis for the creation of algorithms and models of flight dispatchers’ activity concerning messages on the organization of air traffic flows. Decomposition schemes and algorithmic descriptions have been developed and they characterize the field of air traffic flows organization in terms of the airline specialists’activities at two main levels of planning: pre-tactical and operational. The decomposition has been analyzed at some levels such as airline specialists dealing with the organization of air traffic flows according to the planning stage, typical operation situations, type of work with the message (receipt and analysis; formation of the relevant message). These developments can be used in conducting training lessons with cadets during their professional training. Further areas of work are considered to be methodical work with the obtained research results in order to implement them in the training of future flight dispatchers. Стаття присвячена аналізу складної діяльності диспетчерів із забезпечення польотів при роботі з повідомленнями щодо організації потоків повітряного руху. На основі експертної інформації виявлено типові виробничі ситуації в авіакомпанії, визначено ймовірності їх появи. Побудована декомпозиційна схема та алгоритми діяльності диспетчерів із забезпечення польотів при роботі з повідомленнями, що стосуються слотів.