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1. EUROCONTROL the European Organisation Home FAQ Help Contacts Quick ac aa for the Safety of Air Navigation Business Stakeholders Press Room Careers UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 10 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions 4 4 Login Welcome to the On p EUROCONTROL Digital SNOWTAM Trial Application l J TN oig 0 TOF _ 019 O Authentication Required 0 1 0 a 197 e a are being requested by http I accept 04 pulsar be The site says 9 0 1 User Name 0100 p passord O11 j 101 o 1010 IVTOM Click on the logo to access the application 3 1 1 0 1010 1010 0101 Figure 2 Login dialog UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM v1 doc Page 11 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions 5 Symbols and Graphical Representations Aeronautical experts have investigated the existence of civil military and other industry conventions and standards that provide requirements or guidelines for the graphical representation of the surface contamination status 5 1 Features Features for which geometries are available are displayed graphically on a map Both features represented by a surface and features represented by a poi
2. 6 6 4 Visualization Options on page 35 The application has the capability to retain the selected map type for next time the map is displayed UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 70 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions 9 Administration 9 1 Manage Operators To open the Manage operators form click on Manage Operators in Administration menu click here g EUROCONTROL s Digital SNOWTAM Trial Airport Overview E Find Airports Manage Rejected SNOvWTAMS A Administration ES Find Airports Search criteria Quick search Provider J a Manage Operators Lies Manage Associations era Mame IATA LD Airports Helipons Ownership AMDE File Upload LJ my organisation wildcards or o Search results e EUROCONTROL s Digital SNOWTAM Trial SVT E Airport Overview Ge Find Airports Manage Rejected SNOVWTAMS a Administration Quick search Provider Jean Luc LIBIOULLE Pulsar Administration Manage Operators Search Criteria za Operator Organisation 2 Search Search Results 14 operators found First Hame Last Hame Login ID Email Phone Organisation Position E A Thomas D otreppe tdo tdorfpuls ar he Pulsar J Edel GARRIHY ega edel garrihyigeuracontrol int YT Jeremy Grumbach JGR JR pulsar be Pulsar Donald Hughes dhu unknow m T Tudor kanow tiv tivigipul
3. Further clearance io Eeer edee Cena AE AA Cieareo Side e A A A A A AA A A A A Lee _ _ _ _ 2 _ aM _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ J J Renan Critical snow banks Present Distance 10 M A Seph gt sde ES j i The selection may be made with the mouse or keyboard up and down arrow keys Limited auto completion is enabled type the first letter of an abbreviation to automatically select the first matching item 1n the list 7 6 6 Further clearance The application allows you to specify if and when further clearance of the feature is planned items L and M for runways UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 51 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions Total clearance item L and further clearance time item M are supported for all feature types unlike standard ICAO SNOWTAM messages where it is only supported for runways Shenson one e Deposits S000 Ayer As NONE 5d Present E HeH 0 Distance Frichion cosiaen 5 ES 600D Depth Friction device Side Obscured lights z ES ae Further clearance Is total Further clearance time AAA ee a A yA Fo E eee eee 7 6 7 Critical snow banks Check the present
4. 7 9 Editing Creating Apron contaminations occccccccnnnnnoonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnos 60 Lilo ADVGWIN SG CUSTOM A PLONUTTACES A A N A 60 7 10 Editing Creating Aircraft Stand Contamimations cccccccccnnnnnonncnnnnnnnnnonanannnonnnnnnnnnnonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnos 61 LAL Creatine contaminations TrOMTEXISIAS soii it 62 R2 SPURS an ODSERY ao de aa 63 TAS Cancelline an Os erat a is 64 TAA WNManagetejected NOWILA MES sc blend 65 LAAT SCA FCC ES 66 TAGs Edine GSNOW IAM MOSSO OC priii e EEEE OE E EE ONO 66 fdk E SA NON 67 Tile ANDERO CLV OUS AAA ADA AAA 67 8 WORKING WITH GOOGLE MAPS assicisssssiedisnascesasideutdietesccdeanecesuistescdeetsscotttosssecassascosusiancciaess 69 Sk ARO WAS ANG MA Bharti aii 69 Sel ZZ OOM TNC TAP as oras 69 8 3 GHOOSING a Map Pe sissasucieerias tascnaasienesndiet a Unyonaasionsandoetiaiedaauektandee 70 UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 4 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions 9 ADMINISTRATION scistectcctecsataccssensaciuscbsnwasiasiuet vacetasisebaucdancnsswasladaued sasbasesd sscasasesusteassanceosseseoasnass 71 OA Mana ee Operators yi ncacstucnce ty secia ven cvauhe load 71 DD CU titles 71 OT PNAC EA E E nantes 72 P 0 Re II N E E E ere etre ee et 72 2 Mam OFS AMS O ai lera 73 IZA A O asia eatin ard sagas conker E 73 D C0 6 ERR OR OR EE Re ee ET Pee ee ee
5. Email eduard porosnicu eurocontrol int EUROCONTROL Helpdesk Phone Position name Since the login id is not managed within the application it s read only In order to be able to use the application an operator must be associated with a parent organisation The Organisation field on the left part of the popup serves this purpose This will give the operator Data User access rights Note that the Data User role gives read only access to all airports and SNOWTAM messages of the application An operator can also be given the Data Provider role for zero one or multiple organisations This will give him the right to create edit SNOWTAM messages for all airports owned by the selected organisations In the list below Provider for check the organisations for which you want the operator to be provider for You may also uncheck organisations for which you want to remove the Provider for privilege UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 72 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions The Administrator role gives the right to e create and edit operators e create and edit organisations e upload AMDB files To save changes click on Save To abandon changes click on Cancel In this case there s no confirmation dialog prior to closing the editor and loosing the changes 9 2 Manage Organisations This screen allows you to search
6. Tenan I i i t LP i LA A 1 Let E e F z gi A el Ja h La 4 i i er a ot oh Ts a mbi m 1 4 in 5 T A 7 L ae L oe E i q gt a E F T y i F k 1 fl E ob TA a 3 bo 4 art 4 surfaces MA raTa PA Ap l f H LA ag y h tp oe Y l 4 j b d F j 1 k E W i 1 he hi a a a 7 7 i a 17 r 3 P ka E Fi E dE le E a AM i a ae i AA UE F xn y E E ri i F 7 a 4 7 i P i i j Y S L D pai i s 1 y re d Tar A j i y e He Fa Y i 1j d En KM E i ro E A i 5 Lal L Y J i marar k ta 1 f te Ae A e i EA aE m k A A aya y da E 7 cad tod ah ahi q A te i 5 L 1 LA A E gt rd F VE p k a Le 1 CARO A Me el eee a a G E e SNOWTAM Text _ Sgt dae E Y TT a re EAT wat 5 2 1 Contamination surface When features are contaminated their surface 1s filled using a semi transparent color which corresponds to the type of the upper most layer of contaminant UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 18 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 Pulsar Consulting IT Design amp Solutions ee cm kd A rer Arlanda flygplats E yen 3 cade 4 Dry snow 3 Frost gee NS 5 i E e E Wa ae cs gt 2 Water A aer Aranda EN Den Eg EA A EA qar El al i POWERED 500 fi s 200 rr l Pa While not displayed graphically the other contamina
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8. 5 5 5 N AJNIL B NIL C NIL DINIL F NIL E NIL TXY GAJNIL Y NINIL Y C NIL Y S NIL R APRON Y REJECTED 2009 10 30 10 16 A BGMQ B 10290910 C 16 F NIL NIL NIL G 1 1 1 H 100 100 100 TAP N AS RWY R AS RWY T RWY DRY AND CLEAR BA GOOD Y REJECTED 2009 10 30 10 16 AJBGCO B 10290630 C 18 F 4 4 4 G 2 2 2 H 63 62 65 TAP N BA 65TAP 10PCT TYP4 UP TO SMM R BA 63TAP SOPCT TYP4 UP TO Y REJECTED 2009 10 3010 16 A BGBW B 10290600 COT FINIL NIL NIL ONIL RjNIL 5 103006 TRWY CLEAN AND DRY T REJECTED 2009 10 30 10 168 A ESNG B 10290904 03 F TAAT H 53 50 54 SKH N amp MEDIUM R amp MEDIUM T RW CONT 100 PER CENT ICE REJECTED 2009 10 30 10 15 A ENDU B 10290644 C 10 F 114 A SSS NAM BA CA DA G1 AICLSD 179 JELSD K1 O1 WECLSD RICLSD 1179 X CLSD 7714 E REJECTED 2009 10 30 10 15 AJULLIB 10290500 COL FASZ 1524 52 52 ATTE NTR 2 TWYB9 2 Ry 2 5 2 35910291600 E REJECTED 2009 10 30 10 15 AJESNZ B 10290811 0112 FAA G IXADOGIAX HOTA SFH N 7 25 40 R7 30 40 TRWY 2 CONT FF 100 PER CENT 1 REJECTED 2009 10 3010 14 A ENBS B 10290650 C 03 F FET H SS N TAY ASS TAY B S R APRONSS T 25 2 5 25 PCT IN PATCHES REM SAND Click on the icon or double click on a grid row to open the Edit rejected SNOWTAM popup for the corresponding SNOWTAM message UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 65 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions 7 14 1 Search crite
9. AIM Pulsar Consulting Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 Edit surface contamination of Runway 02 20 Contamination Whole Runway Third 1 Third 2 Deposits NONE na NONE ve a Mean depth WX wl My Friction coefficient 5 Est GOOD 5 Est GOOD Friction device same device for the three thirds Cleared surface Further clearance Cleared length as Further clearance Is total 1 Cleared width y Further clearance length Pu Cleared Side we Further clearance width y Distance w Further clearance time From threshold Remark IT Design amp Solutions mey Third 3 NONE sP XX 5 Est GOOD Critical snow banks Present L Distance Depth Side Obscured lights Observation time 13 56 It allows encoding of contaminations by thirds like in the ICAO form or for the whole runway It is only an encoding facility as the contaminations will be stored by third too If you prefer need to provide contaminations for the whole runway at once check the Whole runway check box in the Contamination field set Contamination Deposits NONE e dh gt 4 Mean depth sal x Friction coefficient 5 Est GOOD Friction device 7 7 1 Cleared surface The Cleared Surface field set supports the encoding of cleared length width and side items D and E respectively UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 56 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DA
10. Mean depth Friction coefficient st POOR Friction device same device for the three Cleared surface Further clearance Critical snow banks Cleared length w Further clearance Is total L Present H Aeored width al Further clearance length w Tee en ss IN Cleared Side we Further clearance width na Depth gt Distance w Further clearance time i i Side From pal t hres Obscured lights Observation time 09 44 Remark 7 12 Publishing an observation Once all the contaminations have been created click on the Publish button in the upper right corner The application will generate the following ICAO SNOWTAM Draft full text SNOWTAM AIXM timeslices KML export that can be opened with Google Earth UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 63 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions EUROCONTROL s Digital Trial joa iin bizare ateneo Res ST osea postes Data PROVIDER EUROCONTROL Hebdelx CHARLEROI BRUSSELS SO E Publish B Pubish If 8 eal ee Filters UTC Date Time Now Dataset EAD Loca T Filters Powered by Note Publishing observations may take a while Once the observation has been published the application will reload the Airport Map page in view mode 7 13 Cancelling an observation The current observation can be cancelled
11. Page 40 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions The dialogs differ depending on the specificities of each feature type and are described in the following chapters Remember Currently global information about the whole airport is only available through the SNOWTAM Text feature This includes the content item T plain text remark 6 8 Viewing Runway Contaminations Runway contaminations are always displayed by thirds View surface contamination of Runway RWY 10 28 Contamination Whole Runway Third 1 Third 2 Third 3 Deposits Mean depth YN WY ia x Friction device same device for the three thirds Cleared surface Further clearance Critical snow banks Cleared length w Further clearance Is total Present Cleared width WF Further clearance length se Distance Cleared Side vw Further clearance width Depth y Further clearance time Distance Side From thres threshold Obscured lights mee Observation time lA Remark Close 6 9 Viewing Taxiway Contaminations Detailed information about taxiway contaminations 1s always accessible through the feature list on the right by clicking on the View contamination in the corresponding menu UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 41 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT De
12. SNOWTAM Messages non standard messages received from EAD that the application was unable to translate automatically EUROCONTROL s Digital SNOWTAM Trial Quick search Filters UTC Date Time ih j es f He Dataset 0 EAD 8 Loca Apply Filters 7 4 Airport Map The Airport Map is the main screen of the application It offers both textual and graphical viewing and editing of airport features and contaminations UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 47 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions Its layout is globally the same as in the Data User Interface except for some extra capabilities create a New Observation create and edit surface contaminations close open airports and runways manage rejected SNOWTAMS 7 5 New Observation Mode By default the Airport Map is displayed in view mode To encode new contaminations and as such create a SNOWTAM Draft click on the New Observation button on the upper right part of the map Note you must be a member of an organisation which has ownership over the current airport to be able to add new observations The map will reload to enable creating new contaminations on airport features To highlight the fact that it is in Observation Mode the map header will change color and become orange Also the New Observation button will be replaced by Publish
13. Terrain _ i Apron geometries are only available through AMDB data Send an AMDB file for the corresponding airport to EUROCONTROL in order to take advantage of this functionality see chapter 3 2 Geometric data from AMDB on page 8 5 1 5 Aircraft Stands Aircraft stands are displayed as blue dot shaped icons Here s a sample representation of some aircraft stands UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM v1 doc Page 16 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions ae I ee map Satellite Hybrid Terrain _ ee oe Pa i E 100 m In order to avoid overloading the map aircraft stands labels are not displayed as other feature labels The labels with the stand designator are displayed when the mouse moves over a stand Aircraft stands are made available from EAD data 5 2 Contaminations Feature contaminations are displayed in two ways 1 The surface of the feature is filled with a color corresponding to the contaminant of the upper layer 2 A color coded and triangle shaped icon is placed on the feature showing the most important information the friction coefficient and the type of contaminant of the upper layer UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 17 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions r Ka WN ics T satente Hybrid
14. and Cancel buttons A EUROCONTROL s Digital SNOWTAM Trial 7 g Airport Overview sj Find Airports Manage Rejected SNOWTAMS Quick search Provider Data PROVIDER EBBR BRUSSELS BRUSSELS NATIONAL e Publish ee oe T oe PT so T satente Hyera Teran be i a iar mae ad PE i H a gt 5 3 a BE 7 Ber fe Os alii Feature Labe Thirds pa EAD Loca oe s j pete pee 4 _ Apply Filters F i F j ELE 5 e A 0 E X y d i Feature A Pa A EN ea M Hoes h OS Feature Labe wi YI Aprons Feature Labe Feature 2 E p a se A 3 eg spot mage Geplye Perms of Use 7 6 Common fields for editing contaminations While contaminations dialogs differ between feature types they have a few fields in common This chapter explains those common fields and how to work with them UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM v1 doc Page 48 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions 7 6 1 Observation time This field allows entering a specific UTC time for each observation item B The query time used in the filters section is used by default Note that changing the value of this field will have no effect on the CAO SNOWTAM Draft where only the global observation time defined in filter will be used 7 6 2 Deposits This field allows editing one or more contaminant layers item F a a Te oe
15. displaced thresholds No threshold and no AMDB data available in which case the application can t display the runway e Maps of type Terrain and Map may be less precise than the satellite map and thus the displayed picture may appear shifted If needed the information can be corrected or completed in EAD and sent as an update which the application will take into account automatically Here s a sample representation of a runway displaying The runway itself the blue box runway thirds runway thresholds runway label and threshold labels UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 14 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions runway aircraft stand airport reference point runway label 5 1 3 Taxiways Taxiways are displayed as outlined blue polygons Here s a sample view of several taxiways on an airport Hybrid ET Taxiway geometries are only available through AMDB data If such data is available send the AMDB file for the corresponding airport to EUROCONTROL in order to take advantage of this functionality 5 1 4 Aprons Aprons are displayed as an outlined blue polygon UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM v1 doc Page 15 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions a A VE Map Satellite Hybrid
16. ee ee Pee eee ee ee ee eee eee ere eee 73 DS A O eae 74 9 Mmv SASSO AU ONS tains ered Ni 74 Dead SCOTCH ones esiahia ias 75 9A MEPOLy Ne npor Owners Nl Donn od 75 DET CUCM A A ened eee eat Batata 76 DAZ LORCRCICASE OWNED AAA A A 76 IS PND Ble plod asian gi 9 5 1 Upload a new file UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM v1 doc Page 5 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions 1 Introduction coasulting nn b bh O OGG Welcome to the EUROCONTROL Digital SNOWTAM Trial Application Mo Ka DIGITA Click on the logo to access the application C J kl Figure 1 Home page UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM v1 doc Page 6 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions 2 Disclaimer TODO EPR UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM v1 doc Page 7 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions 3 Data sets The Digital SNOWTAM Application relies on multiple data sets 3 1 Static data baselines from EAD The static data about airport features is exported from EAD SDO in AIXM 4 5 format and is converted and imported in the application in AIXM 5 1 format The following features are available Airport heliports Runways Runway directions Runway c
17. j Se a E la P m x i p il A il La P 3 ed 7 A 8 1 Moving the map The map can be moved e By using the map control on the left as explained in the screenshot e By using drag amp drop click on the map keep the mouse button down and move the cursor to move the map e By using the arrows Page Up Page Down Home and Insert keys on the keyboard The map can also be centred on a specific place by double clicking on the corresponding point on the map Clicking on the little hand icon in the map control will move the map back to the last known position Note In the Airport Map Page the map can be centered on a feature by clicking on the corresponding feature in the textual feature list provided that a geometry is available for that feature 8 2 Zooming the map The map can be zoomed in and out UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 69 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions e By using the map control on the left as explained in the screenshot e By using the mouse wheel if your mouse has one e Use the Insert key to zoom out A double click anywhere on the map will centre it on the clicked point 8 3 Choosing a map type Choosing a map type is as easy as clicking on the select type in the upper right corner of the map As map types add a real value to this application they are further explained in chapter
18. time Cleared width s Cleared Side O UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM v1 doc Page 59 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions 7 9 Editing Creating Apron contaminations There are two ways to create aprons contaminations The apron can be marked as contaminated in whole like any other features The application also supports drawing a custom surface on aprons to mark only a part of it as contaminated Whatever the way the contamination is created the resulting edition dialog will be the same Edit surface contamination of Apron ASPH Critical snow banks Observation time 08 49 Deposits upper byer first NONE ve Present L Mean depth wo KY Distance H Friction coefficient a Est GOOD Depth as Friction device v Side Obscured lights Remark Further clearance Is total LI Further clearance time All the fields of this dialog are described in chapter Error Reference source not found Error Reference source not found on page Error Bookmark not defined 7 9 1 Drawing custom apron surfaces Drawing a custom surface on an apron allows you to restrict the contamination to a specific area on the corresponding apron Tip for airports without AMDB data this functionality also allows you to specify a surface for the corresponding apron that can then be exported in AIXM This feature i
19. your access rights you will have access to more or less functionalities It is certainly a good idea to read the chapter about the Data User Interface even if you have Data Provider access see 6 Data User Interface page 22 7 2 Typical usage flow The typical usage flow of the Data Provider Interface is as follows Login Enter your login name and password Find airports Airport Overview Find Airport Page An overview of the current Quick Search Feature SNOWTAM situation World wide New Observation Create new surface contaminations for all affected airport heliport features Your observation remains only visible by you until it is published Ownership is a right to an organization on an airport which allows creating and editing contaminations UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 46 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions Publish The application will activate the contaminations and generate the corresponding ICAO SNOWTAM Draft Your observation becomes publicly available View airport contaminations View the airport its associated features and contaminations on a map 7 3 Main Screen layout The screen layout is almost identical to the Data User Interface please refer to the corresponding chapters However as a Data Provider you also have access to a screen allowing the management of rejected
20. z w a Friction coefficient Est MEDIUM GOOD Est MEDIU Friction device l same device for the three thirds E Whole Runway Deposits XX M Further clearance Is total CI Further clearance length Further clearance Further clearance width Further clearance time Cleared Side Distance From threshold a Third 3 SLUSH su P AX Est MEDIUM POOR Critical snow banks Present Distance Depth Side Obscured lights Observation time 13 26 25PCT COVERE aap ee LA TATIANA a E a e Contamination Third 2 SLUSH se E Whole Runway Deposits Mean depth Third 1 SLUSH XA XX w 3 Est MEDIUM POOR Est MEDIUM POOR same device for the three thirds Friction coefficient Friction device Cleared width Cleared Side Further clearance Is total L Further clearance length Further clearance width Distance Further clearance time From Remark SANDED Third 3 SLUSH e zox jar Est MEDIUM POOR Critical snow banks Present E Distance Depth Obscured lights 7 iw Observation time Side SW EDDH 11121326 SNOWTAM AJEDDH B 11121326 C 15 F 2 4 6 H 4 3 2 C 05 F 6 6 6 H 2 2 2 T Runway 15 gt Remarks 25PCT COVERED Runway 05 gt Remarks SANDED UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM v1 doc Page 54 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pul
21. 2 Dilek APOR MeN CTF OM AAA iaa 12 IA MUS oaea odas 13 IA LANVIN A A A N 15 Ihde APTOS AA AA AA A 15 JA AMC EAN Sd 16 2 COMA IN AOS ste E ero darn stead O ee datlat 17 SA Cnain n on SUTTO CE A T A dd 18 I2 COn Amna NONI O A id 19 5 2 21 SHS AUC MC AY CL Sita ta A aed Ui anette tate 20 5 22 2 TIPS OL COMMAND ii 20 DL IS 20 6 DATA USERINTERE ACE ia iaa 22 Oya MOE iio 22 6 2 TY piCalSace IO Wisin cicaia 22 039 Mairscreemlayotb eissien ias 23 God MATER AA AAA AA O Dees 23 Ooa MANONO ads ao ens 23 0 UER SCUT eraa ai 23 4 TA ON US pa a a E 26 OA SC OT ne A E EEE E EEEE T ENEN 26 OAD DANA ECSU S TEE ON OE OO 27 Ors AOON ad er Nee en e E T a E aera amr e er Trent ante 29 OIL CONLAIIIMALLON SIUMIMIGALY ACONS da 30 00 AUDO Nap Pase a ass 30 A O OE 32 OOZ AIVOS CAES AS eaaeta came k oe nae 32 6 6 2 1 APOC Tea UO A es dcneha a Ss aad ee O 33 6 6 2 2 ODETTE te teatre Peel ltd ataciia 34 OOS APO AA an casuiniel umeacstontegled Cteasssntestenleietiass 39 UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM v1 doc Page 3 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions OOA VISUALIZATION O DION a a A 3 OOS ViewWwno SNOWILAM TEX AAA AAA ASIS 38 6 6 5 1 SNOWTAM id a td 38 6 6 5 2 SNOWTAM Pit ii di 39 6 6 5 3 EAD SNOW LAVA 39 0 Viewme contaminan ida 40 6 8 Viewing Runway Contaminations dido 41 69 Viewine Taxiway ComtamimatiOns ii 41 GALO Vie Wins Apron CONAN AMON S
22. Aircraft Stands Glick here to collapse No Aircraft Stand data available Click here to expand Click on the arrows on the right hand side of feature designators to open a contextual menu which will allow you to interact with the corresponding feature described below 6 6 2 1 Airport feature Click on the arrows icon on the right hand side of the airport designator to open its contextual menu UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM v1 doc Page 33 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions Airport w i y gt Y ESMS E Runways Center on map 11 29 2 Show SNOWTAM text 17 35 f View details Aprons N a 5 a WV a From the airport contextual menu you can e Centre the map on the airport reference point e Show the current SNOWTAM text if available e View the currently active baseline details about the airport this will open in a new popup Important notice Currently global information contaminations about the whole airport are only available through the View SNOWTAM feature This includes the content of item T plain text remark See chapter 6 6 5 Viewing SNOWTAM Text page 38 for more information 6 6 2 2 Other feature types If the feature has a geometry that can be displayed clicking on the designator will centre the map on the corresponding feature Click on the arrows icon on the r
23. Ben pytb A Belaus G se A persed o 2 O Germany T o o a e Czech Republic i 065 ue ge 8 a the A gt i i Or Gee KA o Moldova Pci Oj Powered by Pulsar The view is initially centred on Europe The displayed airports are refreshed every time the map is moved or zoomed Note some airports might seem to be missing in the bottom of the map especially at low zoom levels This is due to the fact that our geographic queries take the earth curvature into account but Google Maps doesn t coordinates are projected UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 29 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions 6 5 1 Contamination summary icons A contamination summary icon is associated to every airport Click on the icon to open the airport in the Airport Map Page The table below illustrates the possible icon colours and their respective meaning Icon Meaning No active contamination on the airport There exists contamination information but the deposits of all runways are set to NONE and the friction coefficient is GOOD or between 0 40 0 99 or unspecified There exists contamination information and the friction coefficient is POOR below 0 25 or UNRELIABLE for at least one of the runways All other situations including airport heliport closed There exists a SNOWTAM but it has errors Possible actions on the ma
24. E 1673 FT BRN 5 LSZC BUOCHS T y AD BUOCHS 1473 FT BXO a rs LSZE BAD RAGAZ AD CHUR 1617 FT LSZF BIRRFELD AD BADEN 1300 FT LSZG GRENCHEN AD GRENCHEN 1411 FT ZHI Mor LSZH ZURICH Ay AD ZUERICH 1416 FT ZRH me 1571 FRICKTAL SCHUPFART AD 1788 FT d a 15ZJ COURTELARY AD BIEL 2247 FT LSZK SPECK FEHRALTORF AD WINTERTHUR 1758 FT L5ZL LOCARNO An ACABA CAGA ET ETT Page 1 oF2 W Fi Jj sunshine e POWERED EY i 1m Google Fa T 7 mP kv snowTal v0 17 Powered by Pulsar This search field also support the or wildcard characters replacing any group of letters Note that the Quick Search feature doesn t support temporal queries and that the Airport Map Page will always be opened with the current date and time Once the search results are displayed you can navigate through the airport list with the keyboard with up down arrows and press the RETURN key to select the airport You can also use the mouse and click on the desired airport If the search results contain too many airports they will be divided in multiples pages that can be browsed with the help of the paging toolbar at the bottom of the list UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 24 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions Quick search ko D Provider Ludov
25. EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions xSNOWTAM UMAN Digital SNOWTAM Data User and Data Provider Interface User s Guide amp References Manual Version 1 0 UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM v1 doc Page 1 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions DOCUMENT DISTRIBUTION LIST NAME COMPANY SERVICE ROLE Ludovic LAMBRECHTS Pulsar Consultancy Tech Proj Leader Tudor IVANOV Pulsar Consultancy Project Manager Analyst Developer Project Manager DOCUMENT CHANGE RECORD 2 Sept 2009 LLS VOI first version UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM v1 doc Page 2 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions CONTENTS INTRODUCTION a di 6 2 DISCLAIMER oO ALOE DANI DE EA EIA Oda EST 7 y DATA SE DS ii a 8 S L Staue datar baselines Trom PAD a eneaaanee 8 za Geometricdata POM AVI BD id 8 9 EAD SNOW TAM Messac Susi A neal axe tnvtaaes 8 Sa EC AMA A eee ieee ae ioe eee eae ie oes 9 4 ACCESSING THE APPIGICA TION qn iii 10 4l Technical te quite MI CIS ita 10 42 Requesta OSI user nane arser RAS 10 4 3 Accessing The application atril 10 AA TOO 1 OOOO OPM RI rays thactuauer a a a A 11 5 SYMBOLS AND GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIONS ccccccccccrsssssssscssccccscceesssssscsees 12 zE ET 1
26. IT Design amp Solutions e STOCK in Name field will retrieve all airports whose name contains the word STOCK 1 e STOCKHOLM ARLANDA STOCKTON METROPOLITAN The Query Time UTC field 4 allows for historical searches This field 1s used by the application to retrieve SNOWTAM information It will also be used when displaying the Airport Map Page of the selected airport By default the field contains the current UTC date time Clicking on the Now button 5 will reset the query time by retrieving the current UTC time from the server Click on the Search button or press the RETURN key in any field to do the search While the server processes the request the result grid becomes disabled and a loading mask is displayed Search results 12 airports found 5 Designator Name LATA Type Served City Elevation Control type da A A O A PS MATANE o MATANE 102 FT CYMG MANTOUW ADIGE MG AD MANTOUWADGE 1198 FT o CYMH MARYS HARBOUR MH 38 FT ES CYMJ AIR VICE MARSHALL CM MCEWEN MJ 1892 FT E CYML CHARLEWOD YML AD ST IRENEE O77 FT E CYMM FORT MEMURRA Y YMM AD FORT MEMURRA Y 1211 FT Ed CYM 1DOSON MO AD WOOSONEE 30 FT ee 5 eae A S Page 1 of Displaying airports 1 12 of 12 When the results are available the grid becomes enabled again and the first row is selected highlighted 6 4 2 Search Results UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 27 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consul
27. LEAT Soo a ss Deposits upper Byer SE E E JE E WU 3 eg 2s igs _ ___ S ES EE A lt q To add a layer click on the GF icon To remove a specific layer click on the 3 icon UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 49 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions In concordance with ICAO Annex 15 deposits must be specified from top to bottom upper layer first You must always specify a contaminant for an upper layer before adding a new layer In other words you cannot add a new layer if the current bottom layer is set to none 7 6 3 Mean depth Mean depth allows specifying the mean depth of all contaminants item G It applies to all the layers at once not layer by layer 7 Critical snow banks Gbsernation ome 13 00 Deposits upper Gres fret DAMP 7 WATER _ Distance HONE a Mean depth 15 00 m Fo Se ae MM CM Present Remon Further dearance ion E Further cdearance time A unit of measurement is mandatory if a measure 1s provided The selection may be made with the mouse keyboard up and down arrow keys or by typing the corresponding value directly in which case auto completion is enabled Check the xx check box if the depth exists but can t be measured 7 6 4 Friction coefficient The friction coe
28. P AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 e EBUB BRUSSELS ULB e EBUC BRUSSELS UCL Pulsar Consulting IT Design amp Solutions 6 4 Find airports The Find airports screen always accessible through the Find Airports menu item allows you to find specific airports and show if a SNOWTAM 1s active for each retrieved airport at query time A EUROCONTROL s Digital SNOWTAM Trial E Find Airports Quick search Find Airports Search criteria ICAO Mame IATA Query Time UTC 5 G O 09 08 3 wildcards or Search results 5 Designator Name LATA Type Served City Elevation Page 1 of 1 Figure 5 Find airport page for data users 6 4 1 Search criteria Search for airports is allowed by e ICAO designator 1 e Airport name 2 e ATA designator 3 SOTA User Data USER Pulsar Control type VW Powered by Pulsar e sampir ee All those search criteria accept the and wildcard characters which stand for any group of character both at the beginning and or at the end of the criterion Both characters have the same meaning and can be used indifferently depending on your preference Examples e EB in ICAO field will find all airports whose designator ICAO EBBR EBOS UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 26 77 starts with EB 1 e Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0
29. P AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions hole Runway Deposits Mearoepta E xx Eco cece EE E FAchion device Z Cleared surface Further clearance Critical snow banks Cleared length Further clearance Is total Present E Cleared width pa Further Clearance length Distance 7 Cleared Side Further clearence sdti Dept From threshold Obscured ights FP Observation time 13 56 Remark The cleared width and length will be exported as is in the ICAO SNOWTAM Draft You may choose any unit of measurement they will be converted in concordance to CAO SNOWTAM needs The application goes however further than the ICAO requirements It also supports encoding a distance from a threshold which will allow drawing the cleared area on the map when runway geometry 1s available ES EBBR BRUSSELS BRUSSELS NATIONAL 500M from lower THR EAD Loca Apply Filters Sy Cheats Note the cleared surface is outlined with a green line When runway width and length are available from EAD the application will also be able to validate the cleared surface UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM v1 doc Page 57 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 Cleared surface he nee Cleared length 2000 M a Cleared width Cleared Side Distance From Cleared su
30. TAM tab contains the original SNOWTAM message as it was received from EAD without any interpretation or correction If the SNOWTAM was created within the application so didn t come from EAD the tab will only contain the NIL value Contaminat mination as WTAM draft Contamination as plain text EAD SNOWTAM AJESPA B 11100447 C 14 F 2 2 2 G 01 01 01 H 66 49 55 SFH N 37 BA 20 40 R 37 BA 20 40 DUREA SPREAD ON RWY Plain text remark applicable to the whole airport 6 7 Viewing contaminations When contaminations are available they are accessible through the textual feature list on the right by clicking on the View contamination in the corresponding menu ES LSZH ZURICH A lt I Filters UTC Date Time 2009 10 12 10 00 5 Now Dataset EAD Loca Apply Filters Runways pi RWY 10 28 y Y hd Rv Y 14 32 View contamination RWY 16 34 P View details ci iii a E LSZH gt No apron data available Taxiways gt Aircraft Stands 200 rr This will open a new dialog containing detailed information about the conditions on the selected feature The contamination information 1s new read only 1t cannot be edited UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc
31. Thirds de Runway Thresholds w Feature Label a Me a A TN a a ssi at eh ip SE E Taxiways he 4 Feature Label Y Aprons 4 Feature Label Aircraft Stands e Feature O1R 19 fry ine bs enc ls rah Pi Figure 10 Visualization pon patel Each information category can be selected deselected individually In addition all the categories of a feature can be selected deselected at once using the feature check box Check a category e g label in runway section to show it uncheck the category to hide it Check a feature e g runway to show all the corresponding categories uncheck the feature to hide them Click on the icon in upper right corner of the panel to show hide it Hiding the panel allows for saving a significant area of the screen Runways w Feature F Label click here E ESA a Em EA 4 A i 3 Ss X Map Satellite Hybrid isualisation Options to hide Thirds E Runway Thresholds Feature Label C Taxiways Feature C Label Aprons Feature Label Aircraft Stands Feature 6 14 Viewing KML UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 44 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions When a SNOWTAM is available for the selected airport the application allows downloading a KML export of the airport features and contaminations This KML file can be opened in Google Earth to disp
32. add and editing existing organisations EL Administration Manage Organisations Search Criteria Name Code Code Name Remark E AL Airline Generic provider for airlines T EUROCONTROL EUROCONTROL EUROCONTROL EAD EUROCONTROL EAD T EUROCONTROL Helpdesk EUROCONTROL Helpdesk ES Pulsar Pulgar ES Thales Air Systema Thales Air Systems ES 9 2 1 Search You can search for organisations by name and or by code Both fields support the wildcard character Click on the Search button or hit the Return key when one of the fields has focus to perform the search 9 2 2 Add Click on the New button to add a new organisation This will open the Add an organisation popup UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM v1 doc Page 73 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions Add An Organisation Please fill the fields Name Code Provider d Remark Check the Provider checkbox if the new organisation is a provider 9 2 3 Edit Click on the icon or double click on a grid row to open the Edit an organisation popup for the corresponding organisation Edit An Organisation Please fill the fields Name EUROCONTROL Helpdesk Code Provider Remark EUROCONTROL Helpdesk Notice that once an organisation has been saved as provider this cannot be undone 9 3 Manage Associations This screen allows viewing and man
33. aging all the relationships between operators and organisations UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 74 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions e EUROCONTROL s Digital SNOWTAM Trial SAVIA E Airport Overview R Find Airports Manage Rejected SNOWTAMS Quick search Provider Ludovic LAMBRECHTS EUROCONTROL EAD ae Ti Administration Manage Associations E Search Criteria ES Operator Organisation Gel A Search First Name Last Name Login Organisation Roles Ei nel a x J a Eduard POROSNICU EUROCONTROL Helpdesk ADMIN aF Eduard POROSNICU EUROCONTROL Helpdezk USER A 5 FI Eduard POROSNICU EUROCONTROL Helpdesk PROVIDER A A A y j i y e v0 21 ARENA Pulsar 9 3 1 Search The operator field allows searching for operator based on first name last name login and email It supports the wildcard character The organisation list allows selecting one particular organisation to restrict the search Clicking on the t icon or double clicking on the row will open the Edit operator popup window which will allow you to edit those associations 9 4 Airport heliport ownership Airport heliport Ownership allows selecting for which airports an organisation and its data providers can create edit Digital SNOWTAMs Shared ownership is supported meaning that an airport heliport can be ow
34. aphical surface contamination Brecy Chaumol Breandes Imps POWERED EY hee j 5000 A Charbuy Google 9 As sa 1 krr dd IN HL Ue eee ALIAS i a te 5 1 2 Runways Runways are displayed as outlined blue polygons In order to be compliant with ICAO Annex 15 Appendix 2 and OPADD document for the encoding of contaminations and SNOWTAM messages runways are divided into thirds The thirds are numbered from the lower runway designator threshold lt gt I Flughafen Z Z rich Kloten Third 1 Third 2 Lower threshold ike eh E al a LA Gi e Tage E Frachistrascs PONER EC y Mergirass Zurich 1000 fi erairsase Goole HA a ae a Ty 200 rr i INLER RR a Ee er T T toh ohni UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM v1 doc Page 13 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions When no AMDB data is available runway geometries are computed by using the two threshold point s coordinates and the published runway width So at the very least runway thresholds should be available in EAD to be able to visualize runways It may happen that for some airports the runway geometry doesn t match the picture of the runway on the map This may be due to An incorrect runway width in EAD No runway width in which case a default value of 45 meters 1s used Wrong threshold coordinates or
35. arrow keys to navigate through the results and press the RETRUN key to open the Airport Map Page of the highlighted airport heliport TIP if you know the airport designator type it in the designator field press the return key wait for the grid to load press the return key again This will load the Airport Map Page for the corresponding airport without using the mouse and without complicated handling I e EBBR Return Return If the query returns too many results the list of airports heliports will be paginated split in multiple pages Navigating through multiple result pages 1s possible with the help of the navigation toolbar at the bottom of the grid UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 28 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions Search results 355 airports found FORT FRANCES AD LA GRANMDE 4 1005 FT SAULT SPE MARIE XKS AD KASABONIKA 672 FT A Last results AD KANGIRSUK 403 FT Se ep lors b Pll A i Displaying airports 1 15 of 355 Previous results Next results Total number of airports matching the search criteria 6 5 Airport Overview The Airport Overview screen shows a summary of the contamination status of a region for airports having at least one runway EUROCONTROL s Digital SNOWTAM Trial Map Satellite Hybrid Terrain _ D
36. as the technical requirements are fulfilled no other third party software or components need to be installed on your computer 4 1 Technical requirements Internet Explorer 6 7 or Firefox 2 and greater is needed in order to use the web application All application screens have been developed to accommodate a minimum resolution of 1024x768 Note however that the application also supports higher screen resolutions to allow you to take full advantage of the graphical capabilities of the maps Memory requirements will vary greatly depending on your browser and configuration 4 2 Request a login user name Access to the Digital SNOWTAM application is subject to free subscription This login will allow you to use the application either as a Data Provider or a Data User Basically Data Users will have a read access to the data while Data Providers will be allowed to encode new contaminations 4 3 Accessing the application The Digital SNOWTAM Application is accessible through EUROCONTROL s Portal at the following address https LLS EPR Add application URL Type the address in your browser s address bar EUROCONTROL European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation Windows Internet Explorer Fie Edit View Favorites Tools Help er id LA http farm eurocontrol inticorporate public subsite_homepagefindex html v 4 X r ar LA EUROCONTROL European Organisat for the Safe id
37. ber 1 5 or 9 A background color red yellow green or gray The number always corresponds to the estimated friction coefficient even if the actual value contained in the SNOWTAM or contamination is measured the real coefficient is still available in the application The application uses the same conventions as the CAO SNOWTAM form except for the color Measured Coefficient Estimated friction UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM v1 doc Page 20 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions 0 40 and above GOOD 0 39 0 36 MEDIUM GOOD 0 35 0 30 MEDIUM 0 29 0 26 MEDIUM POOR 0 25 and below POOR 9 unreliable UNRELIABLE 9 Grey color is used when no coefficient is available However this should not happen As an example consider the following SNOWTAM message A ENAT B 10290728 C 11 F 67 1 1 G 4 H 3 5 5 It will be displayed using the following icons UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 21 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions 6 Data User Interface 6 1 Introduction As Data User you have access to the Data User Interface which provides read access to textual and graphical representations of features and contaminations for all airports world wide After login no action is required on your side The ap
38. by clicking the Cancel button in the upper right corner The application will ask for a confirmation before discarding the observation UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 64 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions EBCI CHARLEROI BRUSSELS SOUTH Terain a N AE T se Se A a a a S Y Sy oa i Confirm EAD Local 5 I rs a Are you sure you want to navigate away from this page Apply Filters xP E f FER y Your SNOWTAM has not been saved yet using Publish button Press OK to continue or Cancel to stay on the current page ai p th 1 AN g sai i ipa m o ces wo A Ted ape y ai ty ae 2 b d on j a aiae igewelobe Aerodata intePpational Surveys CresiSpot image GeokWe Terms of Uae 4 Once you confirm the cancelling the application will reload the Airport Map page in view mode Nothing will have been stored in database 7 14 Manage rejected SNOWTAMs As Data Provider you also have access to the Rejected SNOWTAMs screen which allows you to fix any errors that prevented the EAD SNOWTAM Messages to be automatically processed by the application o Rejected SNOWTAMS Search criteria Keyword Y rejected SNOWTAMS only Search results Seqld Status Date Filing Text E ia REJECTED 2009 10 30 10 16 A ENEV B 10290935 C 17 F 1 1 1 H
39. chapter 7 6 8 Obscured lights page 52 UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 58 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions 7 8 Editing Creating Taxiway contaminations This dialog allows creating and editing contaminations for taxiways It contains all the common fields described in chapter Error Reference source not found Error Reference source not found on page Error Bookmark not defined Edit surface contamination of Taxiway Al _ Observation time 08 15 Critical snow banks Deposits upper ayer first NONE a E Present LI Mean depth lx Distance hd Friction coefficient 5 Est GOOD Depth ii Friction device A Side Obscured lights C tentit Further clearance Is total L Further clearance time Cleared width yf Cleared Side ad Most fields have been described in chapter Error Reference source not found Error Reference source not found on page Error Bookmark not defined 7 8 1 Cleared width and side The cleared width of the taxiway may be specified here Enter a distance and select a unit of measurement Gbservetion time 13 56 _ enal snow banks Deposits upper byer frst NONE el A Present E Mean depth D DISTANCE FASO Coe HORE F Sue GEHA Depor Friction device oe Side Obscured lights Ethan ca EE Further clearance
40. check box if snow banks affect the corresponding feature item J to enable the distance depth and side fields they are disabled by default when creating a new contamination Critical snow banks Obsenaton Hme 0815 Deposits upper ever fet HOME wi Ene Mean depth e Distance 10 M Friction coefficient 5 Est GOOD DES bi Friction device i ES sides Eo ie CbscuredligaEs E Remark Hiire ceama Is tota Fun eclearance ome Cleared width Cleared Side E Units of measurement are mandatory if a measure is provided The selection may be made with the mouse keyboard up and down arrow keys or by typing the corresponding value directly in which case auto completion is enabled 7 6 8 Obscured lights If lights are obscured check the checkbox Next select Left Right or BOTH in the select box if applicable BOTH is equivalent to LR from the SNOWTAM form UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 52 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions Obsenation_ome 13136 Deposits upper ayer fret NONE ES F pines I A Mean geben Frictor cosficient Eiris EEEE E Obscured lights d Remark Depth de li Ener oen n Further clearance Gime 7 6 9 Remark Remark is a free text field which supports any text entry Its content will be appended in to the item T
41. ear be Pulsar Jean Luc Libioulle jll pulsar be Pulsar ES Mickey Mouse mik Cunknown My 9 1 1 Search The Search button allows for retrieving operators matching the optional search criteria specified in Operator field and or in Organisation field Operator can be a last name for an exact match or a pattern of last name using as wildcard character Organisation is a combo box in which one organisation can be selected Results are presented in a Search result table one operator per row UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 71 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions A double click anywhere in a row or a single click on the Edit icon opens up the operator editor form in a popup windows see 9 1 3 below 9 1 2 Add 9 1 3 Edit To edit an operator double click on the operator row or single click on the icon to the right end of the row m gt First Hame Last Hame LoginID Email Phone Organisation Position Thomas Dotreppe tdo tdorbpulzar be Pulsar Edel GARRIHY ega edel garrihyieuracontral int h click here Jeremy Grumbach JGR JGR mpulsar be Pulsar A popup window opens up showing the operator data i 4 fF A r et Edit An Operator Operator properties Last Name POROSNICU First Name Administrator Organisation EUROCONTROL Helpdesk P 1 Provider for Login ID Airline EUROCONTROL EAD
42. ected airport the SNOWTAM Text button in the bottom right corner of the map will be enabled Click on this button to open a dialog showing e Contaminations as SNOWTAM draft as generated by the application e Contaminations as plain text e The EAD SNOWTAM as received from EAD if applicable Currently airport wide contaminations can only be viewed in the item T and global remarks fields This is also the case for information contained in an original SNOWTAM message that couldn t be attached to a particular feature This fact is emphasized in the screenshots below 6 6 5 1 SNOWTAM Draft The SNOWTAM Draft is generated by the application based on the contaminations provided by Data Providers and on the parsing and translation of official ICAO SNOWTAM messages coming from EAD The SNOWTAM Draft is ICAO compliant UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 38 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions _ SNOWTAM and Comana arent diene _ x i Contamination as SNOWTAM 4 draft Contamination as plain text EAD SNOWTAM SW EBCI 10140944 SNOWTAM A EBCI B 10140944 C 07 F 2 9 6 H 1 2 3 Close 6 6 5 2 SNOWTAM plain text The Plain Text SNOWTAM translates the contamination into a formatted human readable plain text message SNOWTAM and Contamination Text format ee gn SST ea a5 SNOWTAM dra
43. entreline points thresholds Taxiways Aprons Aircraft stands These features are regularly and automatically updated trough the EAD ESI ENA connection It is not modifiable through the application Runway geometries are computed using the two thresholds 3 2 Geometric data from AMDB Feature geometries in AMDB format can be uploaded in the application AMDB provides precise geometries for the following features e Runways through runway elements e Taxiways through taxiway elements e Aprons through apron elements Runway geometries uploaded from AMDB will always have priority over geometries computed with threshold points AMDB files must be sent to EUROCONTROL via email Validity tests against the features already available in the database will be run before the file can be uploaded EUROCONTROL will take care of the whole processing 3 3 EAD SNOWTAM Messages The application regularly and automatically receives ICAO SNOWTAM messages through EAD INO and converts them into valid surface contaminations as soon as they are available The converter uses a set of rules to validate and translate SNOWTAM messages This set of rules takes the ICAO Annex 15 Annex II and many common variations into account UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 8 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions Despite the relative flexibility of the import to
44. fficient supports all ICAO SNOWTAM formats item H i Present M wjp Present Mean depth wi yy Distance 20 Friction coefficient 5 Est GOOD Dept E Friction device 53 See GESS EE Further clearance is totail Observation time 08 15 Deposits upper Gyver fret HOHE ull l ie Remark Further dearance time ese set Cleared 51088 ES A e Supported formats are e 0 00 gt 0 99 measured UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 50 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL EATM DAP AIM e 175 single digit estimated e 9 unreliable Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 Pulsar Consulting IT Design amp Solutions The application will analyze the value and provide information about it next to the field measured est good Invalid values will be outlined in red mouse the mouse over the field to display a tooltip explaining the error Observation time 07132 Deposits funper byer dysti NOHE Mespaepta ESSE Friction coefficient FPA ES Critical snow banks Present E Pista Further Clearance time Cleared width Cleared Side hd 7 6 5 Friction device Select a friction measurement device item H if the coefficient was measured Observation ome 08 15 Deposits upper byer fret MONE Fe ww LLI a Meardeptr Fiction coefficient Est GOOD Friction device Cbscuredlighes
45. ft Contamination as plain text EAD SNOWTAM SNOWTAM identification emitter code mig 45W Location BGS5 valio starting from 29 Oct 200 at 11 30 UTC Global remarks RWY CONTAMINATION 025PCT 1MM RIME PCT O10PCT 1MM ICE APRON SANDED Runway A 24389 SS lt lt KIAA Observation DateTime UTC 29 Oct 200 at 11 30 57 57 Friction Measured Good Measured Good Measured Good Frost Frost Frost Deposits Ice Ice Ice Mean Depth 2 mm 2 mm 2 mm aa A 4 lt gt EEK K 0 0 0 Q Deposits over taxiway mean depth None Wet Snow None st Third Landing area znd Third Mid runway 3rd Third Opposite end Apron APRON pans over apron mean depih Damp None None Note the fact that the apron was sanded was provided in item T of the original SNOWTAM A BGSS B 10291130 C 14 F 37 37 37 G 2 2 2 H 50 57 57 TAP N O50PCT 2MM TYP37 BA 65 TAP R 100PCT 3MM TYP7 PCT 100PCT 1MM TYP3 BA 40 TAP T RWY CONTAMINATION 025PCT 1MM RIME PCT 010PCT 1MM ICE APRON SANDED The information could therefore not be processed by the application and has been left unchanged and attached to the global remarks 6 6 5 3 EAD SNOWTAM UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 39 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions The EAD SNOW
46. g area mn 4 Current version of the application Powered by Pulsar v1 0 gt commlting a 6 3 1 Main menu The Main menu is the heart of the navigation into the application This is where you can choose the actions you want to perform within the application Each menu item can be clicked This will load the requested page into the Main working area 6 3 2 Main working area The main working area is where the application pages are loaded 6 3 3 Quick Search The Quick Search feature is a convenient way to find airports very easily and quickly based on ICAOAATA designators and airport name The selection of an airport will open the corresponding Airport Map page which is used to display the contaminations Type any combination of characters to trigger the search a minimum of 3 characters 1s required for the search to take place The search results will contain all airports whose designators or name match the specified criterion UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 23 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting _EATM DAP AIM____ Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 YT Design amp Solutions _ Z EUROCONTROL s Digital SNOWTAM Trial Shuwtal E Airport Overview Ga Find Airports o Manage Rejected SNOWTAMS Quick search LSZ Provider Ludovic LAMBRECHTS 1 EUROCONTROL EAD E CPD4 BRUSSELS ARMSTRONG FIELD Re en Sn i M LSZA LUGANO J A N AD LUGANO 915 FT LUG a qv Py LSZB BERN BELP Ve AD BERN
47. ic LAMBREC ERRK T ROERUNARVAJROSKILDE fal AH j ROSKILDE 146 FT RKE EKVD KOLDING VAMDRUP AD KOLDING 143 FT GOGK KOLDA AD KOLDA KDA GUSB KOUNDARA SAMBAILO ee AD SBI HTKD KONDOA KONDOA Teese AD KONDOA HUKO KOTIDO ADIF A K76MI KOZAL FIELD AD SPARTA 775FT KOGD OGDEN HINCKLEY AD OGD KOLD DEWITT FLD OLD TOWN MUNI AD OLD TOWN 126 FT OLD Paging toolbar ME RARA 441 FT LYLIO KOVIN BY EN LS 69M Page l jof2 Last results First results Previous results Next results Example search results ae Results eee No results minimum 3 characters needed All airports where designator ICAO or designator IATA starts with LS no airport name starts with LS All airports where designator ICAO or designator IATA contains LSZ no airport name contains with LSZ LSZH LSZH Zurich Zurich Airport Switzerland e EBBR BRUSSELS BRUSSELS NATIONAL BRUSSEL All airports whose name contains BRUSSEL as ICAO and IATA designators have a max length of 4 characters they will never match any criterion with more than 4 characters so in that case only the airport name is taken into account BRUSSEL will match the following airports e CPD4 BRUSSELS ARMSTRONG FIELD UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 25 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL EATM DA
48. iena s a a E 42 6 11 Viewing Aircraft Stand Contamination occcccccnnnoonnnnnnnnononnnnannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnonnnnnncnnnnnnnnnnnos 42 6 12 Using the contamination dialogs oooncnnnnncccnnnonncnnnnnnnnnonononnnnnnnnnononnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnos 43 6 13 VISUALIZA MODOS A A a a 43 ORF A AAA E E EN 44 H DATA PROVIDER INTERFA CE ds 46 Jl MICO UC LOM enc 46 A AS Oe OW aerate ces O A E O 46 Hed Maln Sereen LAY OUE ersaccescien dense ate as dd cit ette 47 TA ANPC Maa sido 4 To SINC WRO DSL V ALON NOG a a des E EaSISEOS leona ias cds 48 7 6 Common fields for editing contaminations ccccooonnnccncnnnnnnnnnnononnnnnnnnnnnonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnos 48 TOM ODAVA OnI ME AI E ee es 49 LOZ AD CD OSUUS AA E A AE A E A icant 49 TiO META A AS AS 50 TiO ERC COSI IE A EE E E E E TAE Gemegusies 50 TOS A ONA ON O a E E ncaa taste Ranc AGU aa ost eid soucraaartonia dame BaceanieeneaeceaneaeanE 51 7 0 0 PRUE OCIO ios 51 OR CHICAS NOW DANS A lies 52 OJO SOS CUT CC AI OI S se tina EEN E E ETON TAE EN J2 TOD REMOT AA OA EA E 53 7 7 Editine Creating Runway Contamination ai A os A A 55 Add Cleared SUT dC O AAA AAA A AAA 56 TPs ARAS A uctiacsh E TA nuance a a AG eeiat ieseneaeaaatiaets 58 PAD CVritiCaGlSnOWw ba anksandobscured Nelts costet in thea rota N E A 58 7 8 Editing Creating Taxiway contaminations ccccccccsssssseeeccccceccaaeessecceeeeeeaaeeeseeeeeeeeesaaaeeness 59 Zod Cleared widi ONG SC 59
49. ight hand side of the feature designator to open its contextual menu 17 35 View contamination _Aprons P View details From the airport contextual menu you can e Show the current contamination if any e View the currently active baseline details about the feature this will open in a new popup UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 34 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions When contaminations affect a specific feature the corresponding contamination icon 1s also visible nearby the feature designator EUROCONTROL s Digital SNOWTA RUSSELS NATIONAL ET aR pr O Ek ti he mS ES EBBR BRUSSELS B Filters UTC Date Time 2009 10 02 09 33 Dataset O EAD 6 Loca 6 6 3 Airport Map The Airport Map is the central piece of the application It allows graphical visualization of airport features and contaminations when available For more details about how features and contaminations are displayed on the map please refer to chapter 5 Symbols and Graphical Representations on page 12 6 6 4 Visualization Options For some airports with a lot of feature geometries the map can quickly become overloaded The Visualisation Options panel gives you full control over what is visible on the map UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM v1 doc Page 35 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar C
50. its upper layer frst NONE E 3t Present LI Mean depth IXY anode Friction coefficient 5 Est GOOD Depth a Friction device w Side Obscured lights all Remark Further clearance Is total L Further clearance time a All the fields of this dialog are described in chapter Error Reference source not found Error Reference source not found on page Error Bookmark not defined 7 11 Creating contaminations from existing When in new observation mode and if a SNOWTAM currently exists on the selected airport it 1s possible to create a new contamination based on the existing one instead of creating it from scratch By default the new SNWOTAM is empty the existing contaminations are not retrieved You will have to retrieve the interesting contaminations feature by feature in order to build the new SNOWTAM Runways 07 25 Aprons F PL P12 pis P View details T hb P14 de k Create a new contamination a Create a new contamination from existing EJ Close runway This will open the contamination dialog pre filled with the values of the previous observation UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 62 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions Edit surface contamination of Runway 07 25 Ba Contamination Whole Runway Deposits WATER
51. lay a three dimensional view of the airport Note once opened in another application the data contained in the file is totally detached Editions made to the data in third party applications won t be imported in the Digital SNOWTAM application in any way En PS lt gt OVA SYP 40 OER IZ oo xc a Third 1 4 ae ae a 7 4 A gt A j l Y 4 are NF image 2009 Aerodatainternational Surveys Dateides images satellite 8 juin 2004 50 54 21 44 N 4527 48 80 E Altitude 2 60 km UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 45 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions 7 Data Provider Interface 7 1 Introduction As Data Provider you have access to the Data Provider Interface which provides read access to textual and graphical representations of features and contaminations for all airports world wide You will also be able to create and edit contaminations all airports for which your organization has ownership After login no action is required on your side The application will automatically direct you to the appropriate section Data Providers also have access to the Data User Interface In fact to allow maximum flexibility the Data User and Date Provider Interfaces have been built together into a single application with a single point of access Most screens are common to both Interfaces Depending on
52. n syntactically valid SNOWTAM messages refer to unknown features runways alrports Errors prevent the application from handling the SNOWTAM message which will then be rejected A SNOWTAM containing only warnings will be processed normally by the application Note however that some information it contains could be generalized For example unreadable information UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 67 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions about taxiways could be put at the airport level during the creation of contaminations The information is not lost but is available at a higher level UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 68 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions 8 Working with Google Maps Here are a few condensed things to know about Google Map usage Move the map a oom in f Map satelite Hybrid Terrain a 7 PEN b 7 mes 7 L Ca J i 1 a i mm l La i b g k a i i Tr 1 s r3 i do E E 7 a a L Eat ee Es Tig by ps 71 a F E T b A ee lt E P o A AI e 1 Ah Lf Ei E i 3 i A PE i i 2 AN Pe a F F Ji a E a gt oat Pla E T f _ qa a p 3 hg F s P Ey A i Se Zoom out y z j m a 4 a A Me i L Eo 3 L A a 4 A poll 5 P k m g 5 Lady i j T s Co o a F
53. ned by multiple organisations at the same time This allows for example national authorities to encode SNOWTAM messages in place of local authorities when needed UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 75 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions D Administration Airports Heliports Ownership Ownership Manage ownership for EUROCONTROL Helpdesk Find Airports ICAO Mame IATA my Le LI My organisation wildcards and Search Results 27 airports found Designator Hame LATA Type Served City Elevation Control type Organisation o ES L DB DUBNICA AD SLAVNICA 235 M CIVIL Fi LZHL HOLIC AD HOLIC 161 M CIVIL E LZIB BRATISLAVA R STEFANIK BTS AH BRATISLAVA 133 M EMIL F L KC KAMENICA NAD CIROCHOU AD KAMENICA HAD C 174 M CHIL J LAKS KRALOWA AD KRALOVA PRISE 123 M CIVIL F LZKZ KOSICE KSC AH KOSICE 230 M CIVIL LZLU LUCENEC LUE AD LUCENEC 216 M CIVIL F a Page jof2 b bl Displaying airports 1 15 of 27 Select None Al E Apply changes Ownership is always managed for one organisation at a time which can be selected in the Ownership section top of page Note the organisation selected in the main menu has no effect on this screen as ownership 1s an administrative task not related to Data Providers Users Manage Rejected SNOWTAMS Quick search Provider Admin ISTRATOR EUROCONTROL Hel
54. nt are supported Airport features represented by a surface are displayed using an outlined blue polygon the shape is not filled This is the case for runways taxiways and aprons Airport features represented by a point aircraft stands thresholds are displayed using an icon depending on their type 5 1 1 Airport Reference Point The airport reference point is displayed using the usual ICAO symbol A 5 Satellite lt gt Ea ert Mhk CEN charleroi Gosselies 1 y al S FTT E42 A rop le 1 E A Gosselies E420 m h E A roport at oe Charleroi eo k 5 Brujeelles Sud ec g h ae y leroj Rue 454 en Poet E42 Sa oak Charleroi Jumet Jumet Boig NS d Heigne Ransart Gh a im ce La FOYIERED EY 2 ai 2000 fi TUON 00qle HA LS 9 ae a 1 Err E420 Te pr wu re Ar VS M a The graphical visualization of SNOWTAM messages and contaminations relies heavily on features geometries If no geometries are available a warning shall be displayed under the reference point UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 12 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 Fileury la Vallee A Las Map Satelite Hybrid Terrain lt em gt i Pulsar Consulting IT Design amp Solutions e La Bailly ce kal GH 0 ta 3 i En Of Les Bries tars Aerodrome al Auxere Branches nceau No graphical data available for this airport Cannot display gr
55. nts are still available in the view edit dialogs in the application As an example consider item F of the following SNOWTAM message A LSZH B 09280852 C 10 F 27 5 9 The 1 third of the runway is contaminated by water over ice value 27 only the water layer is visible for this third 5 2 2 Contamination icon The contamination icon carries the most important information about the contamination of the corresponding feature e Single or multiple layers e Type of contaminant of the top layer e Friction coefficient textual number and color code It is meant to be a visual quick summary of the contamination UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM v1 doc Page 19 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions 5 2 2 1 Single and multiple layers A single triangle is used when there is a single layer of contamination one single contaminant Figure 3 Single layer contamination icon When the contamination consists in multiple layers of contaminants the icon is displayed as a double triangle Figure 4 Multiple layer contamination icon Important notice the number of triangles does NOT depict the number of layers 5 2 2 2 Type of contaminant The icon contains the denomination of the upper most contaminant the top layer 5 2 2 3 Friction coefficient The friction coefficient aka braking action is displayed using the following two conventions A num
56. of the ICAO SNOWTAM Draft Critical snow bank Obsenabon Hme 08115 SAA J j E aaa a Deposits upper ver fest io NONE Ej os e Mean denth sii YN DHstance i ES Est GOOD Dok E j gt a2 Pichon coehicast ld FACHO ree vica Gsen E Remark Eme cearance ito Emer dedame He Ciesred width Cieareo Sie hd It may be used to provide additional information about a feature such as de icing in progress runway sanded Its position and size may vary depending on the dialog In a usual ICAO SNOWTAM message this information would have been provided in the global item T However this application allows you to specify those remarks for the corresponding feature This will ensure better conciseness and flexibility Note that as this now information is provided in context that is for the corresponding feature there is no need to specify the designator and feature type anymore See the example below When the ICAO text version of those contaminations will be generated all those remarks will be aggregated in the item TY field For example we have typed remarks for both runways of airport EDDH UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 53 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions Contamination Third i Third 2 WATER DRY SNOW e Mean depth XY
57. ol some SNOWTAM messages might be rejected They will still be available in the application for further processing and fixing but their contaminations won t be processed or available in the application See 7 14 for additional information 3 4 Local Contaminations In addition to EAD SNOWTAM messages the application also supports local contaminations During the trial local contaminations can be provided by local airport authorities and or NOTAM offices This will allow data providers to encode test data directly within the application with the help of wizards and graphical editing capabilities Local contaminations can coexist with EAD contaminations as they are both considered as completely separate data sets In other words local and EAD contaminations won t impact each other This will allow for example to use the application to encode and generate an ICAO SNOWTAM draft copy paste it in EAD and see the result when the SNOWTAM comes back in the application from INO as described in the following flow d a NT ES IMPORT TOOL UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM v1 doc Page 9 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions 4 Accessing the application The Digital SNOWTAM application is accessible via the Internet as a Web Application You will therefore need a working Internet connexion in order to use it On the other hand as far
58. onsulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions Visualisation Options Feature Label Thirds Runway Thresholds Feature Label O Taxiways Feature _ Label _ Aprons Feature JLabel Aircraft Stands Feature By checking unchecking the boxes you can show hide the corresponding feature geometries and or labels The box nearby the feature type Runways allow you to completely show hide specific features in one click map Satellite uw a Sc Ade oe a i i ES NC WATAM Text o makers Ei tala cl ar L ETETE TE Figure 6 Satellite view of airport map UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 36 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions ff Beni Ssnow Tam Tex Aje ALALIA aail ll LNA T l ee Ll ose Figure 7 Map view of airport map picture from the satellite vue E o Map Satellite Hybrid Terrain ae shape from the map vue UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 37 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions A Map Satellite Hybrid mn FOWERED EY NW E 4 2000 ft F Google s A Ls Map ALA wet A ll Pili A llos Rn Bs Figure 9 Terrain view of airport map 6 6 5 Viewing SNOWTAM Text When a SNOWTAM message or contaminations are available for the sel
59. p Change the map type using the map type selector Zoom in Zoom out Drag the map move it using the mouse to show a different zone Hover the cursor over a bullet to see the corresponding airport designator Click on a bullet to open the airport page of the corresponding airport heliport Performance issue There are more than 15000 airports heliports in the database The number of bullets to calculate and display in this screen depends on the size of the geographical area to display hence to the zoom level In addition in some regions of the world the high density of airports heliports at some high altitude zoom level might make the map look cluttered The bullets can be so close of each others that it s almost impossible to click on the right one For these reasons only airports heliports with more than one runway are selected 6 6 Airport Map Page The Airport Map is the main screen of the application It offers both textual and graphical view of airport features and contaminations View Create Edit Features Y s UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM v1 doc Page 30 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions EUROCONTROL s Digital SNOWTAM Trial Quick search Feature Labe Thirds 4 Runway Thresholds Feature i Labe AS C Aprons i Feature C Labe v Aircraft Stands Feature o
60. pd al 9 4 1 Search Search fields supports both and wildcard characters You can also restrict the search to the airports already owned by the selected organisation 9 4 2 Take Release ownership Taking and releasing ownership is done by checking and unchecking respectively the checkbox in the left most column of the search results The actions will be saved once you click on the Apply Changes button Note search results may be split in multiple pages as shown in the following screenshot LSGK SAANEN Page lof6 Fi Apply Changes only applies to the current page If you navigate to another result page any modification you have made will be lost UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 76 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions 9 5 AMDB file upload The application allows an administrator to upload an AMDB file in the database This feature is available from the Administration menu Important notice the administrator must provide a single AMDB file containing all available data This is necessary because the application doesn t support incremental upload of AMDB data Due to AMDB specific constraints the existing data is deleted from the database before the file is uploaded 9 5 1 Upload a new file Click on the Browse button to select the file to upload from your computer then click on Submit to
61. plication will automatically direct you to the appropriate page Data Providers also have access to the Data User Interface In fact to allow maximum flexibility the Data User and Data Provider Interfaces have been built together into a single application with a single point of access Most screens are common to both Interfaces Depending on your access rights you will have access to more or less functionalities It is certainly a good idea to read the following chapters about the Data User Interface even if you have Data Provider access 6 2 Typical usage flow The typical usage flow of the Data User Interface is as follows Login Enter your login name and password Find airports Airport Overview Find Airport Page An overview of the current Quick Search Feature SNOWTAM situation World wide View airport contaminations View the airport its associated features and contaminations on a map More than 15000 airports are available through EAD export UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 22 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions 6 3 Main screen layout Application screens are divided in multiple sections Your profile data user A EUROCONTROL s Digital SNOWTAM Trial Find Airports a Tf Main menu Quick search User Data USER Pulsar Quick search for airports Your credentials Main workin
62. rface e dee Cleared length 2000 M Ss Cleared Side Distance From Pulsar Consulting IT Design amp Solutions Gh This distance would make the dearance exceed the runway length 1211 M 7 7 2 Further clearance The further clearance field set supports the encoding of items L amp M _ Contamination E El hole Runway Tank Third Deposits NONE EE NONE PA Mean depth gt 3 Fhenon coafgenes TEE GOOD TEE S000 ERcHorn ad amER tame dci tia ted E Cleared surface Further clearance E Cleared length f Further clearance Is total LI E Cleared width ES Further clearance length x E 2 Further clearance width vw E Distance 2 E yo Further clearance time o PESAS gt threshold Remark Third 3 NONE ER wo KK 55 5000 Critical snow banks Presenta Distance Se Dept Side Oiscureighte gt Obseruation tine bes A total further clearance is indicated by clicking on the checkbox nearby Is total In this case length and width fields will become disabled When distances are provided the corresponding unit of measurement must be provided as well 7 7 3 Critical snow banks and obscured lights The critical snow banks field set which is common to all feature types is described in chapter 7 6 7 Critical page 52 The Obscured lights fields which are common to all feature types are described in
63. ria By default only rejected SNOWTAM messages are displayed It is however possible to display all SNOWTAM messages by unchecking the rejected SNOWTAMS only checkbox It s also possible to limit the list to SNOWTAMS containing a specific keyword entered in the Keyword field this is a full text search 7 14 2 Editing aSNOWTAM Message Edita Rejected SNOWTAM Mozilla Firefox Edit a Rejected SNOWTAM Original Snowtam Text Initial Errors Invalid format of value in field N 7 25 40 ParsingWarning Invalid value in field R 7 3040 Edit Text a Ez Done Al ao E HE A IO de im x 1 error 0 warnings b E The screen is divided into three sections UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM v1 doc Page 66 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions The Original SNOWTAM Text contains the SNOWTAM Message as it was received from EAD or previously resubmitted within the application The field is read only as it serves only as a reference for the edited text Initial Errors are validation messages generated by the parsing of the SNOWTAM The various types of errors are discussed in paragraph 7 14 4 Types of errors below Errors must be fixed otherwise the SNOWTAM will be rejected again Warning should be fixed but this is not mandatory The Edit Text allows you to clean up the SNOWTAM Text before resubmitting it When
64. ry time or a different dataset Datasets are further explained in section 3 Data sets on page The first time the page is loaded the dataset is selected using the following criterion e Local will be selected if the airport has local contaminations encoded by a local authority e EAD will be selected otherwise If you select a different dataset this dataset will be used once you apply the filter and the page 1s reloaded By default the UTC Date time uses the value selected in the Find airports page or the current UTC date time 1f you used the Quick Search feature or the Airport Overview page 6 6 2 Airport features The airport features area is a textual list of available features for the selected airport Features are displayed by their designator identification and are grouped by feature type UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 32 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 Airport ESMS Runways 11 29 17 35 Aprons N 5 Yu Taxiways Aircraft Stands No Aircraft Stand data available a ki a a a a a a la al hal Only the features available through EAD can be displayed here Pulsar Consulting IT Design amp Solutions Feature groups Airport Runways Aprons may be expanded or collapsed individually by clicking on the arrows on the right Airport ESSA Runways O1L 19R 01R 19L 08 26 Aprons Taxiways
65. s accessible though the menu AB gt ASPH gt gt BC 2 View details Draw a surface co F CONC de Create a new contamination O ee E gt UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 60 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions When you select Draw a surface the screen switches to the drawing mode In this mode you can draw a surface on the map by clicking on different points one point at a time Two additional buttons also become available Save area and Cancel gt A Fry ho i F T Apply Filters Points are displayed as square shaped icons which can be moved with the mouse Simply click on the square hold the mouse button and move the cursor Once the area has been defined click on the Save area button This will open the contamination edition dialog for the corresponding surface Note it is not necessary to close the polygon as it will be closed automatically by the application upon save 7 10 Editing Creating Aircraft Stand contaminations This dialog allows creating editing contaminations on aircraft stands UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 61 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions Edit surface contamination of Aircraft Stand test EE Observation time 09 44 a Depos
66. sar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions Both remarks have been aggregated into item T prefixed with the runway designator SHOWTAM and Contamination Text format eed Contamination as SNOWTAM draft Contamination as plain text EAD SNOWTAM SNOWTAM identification emitter code n sw Location EDDA Valid starting from 12 nov 2009 at 13 26 UTC Runway RW 15 33 Observation Date Time UTC 47 2nd Third Mid 3rd Third Opposite 12 nov 2009 at 13 26 grea runway end 3 Friction Estimated Medium Estimated Medium Estimated Medium Good Poor Deposits Dry Snow Mean Depth Remarks 25PCT COVERED Runway EWi 05 23 Observation Date Time UTC fst Third Landing nd Third Mid dd Third Opposite 12 nov 2009 at 13 26 area runway end 2 2 2 Friction Estimated Medium Estimated Medium Estimated Medium Poor Poor Poor E m or Deposits Mean Depth Remarks SANDED Close In the plain text format the remarks are printed under their corresponding features 7 7 Editing Creating Runway contaminations This dialog allows creating and editing contaminations for runways It contains all the common fields described in chapter Error Reference source not found Error Reference source not found on page Error Bookmark not defined UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 55 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL EATM DAP
67. sign amp Solutions View surface contamination of Taxiway M5 lt x Observation time isn Sa Deposits upper Byer first plese Distance tl Friction coefficient Est MEDIUM GOOD Depth x Friction device Side Obscured lights Remark Further clearance Is total Further clearance time Cleared width a Mean depth Se XK Cleared Side 6 10 Viewing Apron Contaminations Close Detailed information about apron contaminations is always accessible through the feature list on the right by clicking on the View contamination in the corresponding menu view surface contamination of Apron P1 Observation time Deposits upper aver first Mean depth me XA Friction coefficient Est POOR Friction device Obscured lights Further clearance Is total Further clearance time Critical snow banks Present Distance Depth si Side Remark Close 6 11 Viewing Aircraft Stand contaminations Detailed information about aircraft stand contaminations 1s always accessible through the feature list on the right by clicking on the View contamination in the corresponding menu UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 42 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions Critical snow banks View surface contamination of Aircraft Stand ANG_NI 56 Observation time Deposits upper ayer first ICE Presen
68. t Mean depth w lyy Distance Friction coefficient Est POOR Depth Friction device Side Obscured lights Remark Further clearance ls total Further clearance time 6 12 Using the contamination dialogs Tip The dialogs can be closed by clicking on the Close button or on the X symbol in the upper right corner The _ symbol nearby can be used to show hide the dialog temporarily this can be used to see the map while keeping the dialog at hand A double click on the dialog title has the same effect EN E SAA EE Po APA DE 2 contamination of Runway 07L 25R X Contamination Whole Runway Third 1 Third 2 Close dialog Deposts NONE JPR noe PX etA Mean deoth a E el tic ne Bat Se ee EA lf Edit surface contamination of Runway 07L 25R Paf AIN Bi 7 6 13 Visualization Options The Visualization Options panel is located on the right of the Airport Map view The panel allows for fine tuning which visual information is overlaid on the airport map This 1s especially useful when the airport map is cluttered as shown below UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 43 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions Pi pa i z z E 2 el A 4 P Fi Nea E ia Satellite Hora Visualisation Options y m Perei t Runways m Feature w Label e
69. t Y ia m i i 1 J 2 S T e AN Sy e FU erodaia Aten ation al fii thir iF ro The screen is divided into four areas Filters Airport features Airport map Visualisation options The left and right columns the filters airport features and visualization options areas can be almost completely hidden to give more space to the map This may come in handy with smaller screen resolutions E ESMS MALMO dp New observation w Filters la oe UTC Date Time Feature 2009 10 05 13 31 G Labe Once collapsed the panels become only a narrow vertical bar UMAN EC Digital SNOWTAM vl doc Page 31 77 Printed on 12 01 10 13 57 EUROCONTROL Pulsar Consulting _EATM DAP AIM____ Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 WT Design amp Solutions _ e EUROCONTROL s Digital SNOWTAM Trial Show Tan Airport Overview Find Airports Manage Rejected SNOWTAMS amp Administration gt Quick search User Data USER Pulsar ES Esms maLmo AM SESNOWTAM Text DigitalGlobe SA AS FT o v0 18 Powered by Pulsar Click on the bar itself to reopen the panels temporarily the panel will collapse back as soon as the mouse cursor moves over the map or click on the little arrows on top of the bars to expand the panels normally Note that each panel can be collapsed and or expanded individually 6 6 1 Filters Filters allow you to reload the map with a different que
70. ting EATM DAP AIM Digital SNOWTAM User s Manual v1 0 IT Design amp Solutions e EUROCONTROL s Digital SNOWTAM Trial Showa x Find Airports o Manage Rejected SNOWTAMS a Administration Quick search Provider Jean Luc LIBIOULLE Pulsar E Find Airports Search criteria ICAO Name IATA Query Time UTC 2009 09 10 13 20 2 My organisation wildcards or Search results 8 airports found S Designator Name IATA Type Served City Elevation Control type V gt lt EBBR BRUSSELS BRUSSELS NATIONAL BRU AD BRUSSELS 184 FT x EBC CHARLERONBRUSSELS SOUTH CRL AD CHARLEROI 614 FT X EKAH AARHUS AAR AD AARHUS 62 FT X ENYA TRONDHEIM AERNES TRD AD TRONDHEIM 3 FT X ESGJ JONKOPING JKG AD JONKOPING 741 FT Cr IL X ESMS MALMO Mih AD MALMO 236 FT CI IL 1 Es ESSA STOCKHOLM ARLANDA ARH AD STOCKHOLM 137 FT CIVIL gt Es ESSP HORRKOPING KUNGSANGEN HRK AD NORRKOPING 32 FT CIVIL 1 Page 1 of 1 Displaying airports 1 8 of 8 v0 15 Powered by Pulsar The result table contains the list of airports heliports matching the search criteria A row displayed in bold with a snowflake in the first column means that the corresponding airport heliport has a valid active SNOWTAM at the Query Time A single click on the plane icon in the last column or a double click on a row will open the Airport Map Page for the corresponding airport The result grid also supports keyboard navigation so it is also possible to use the up down
71. you click on the Resubmit button the edited SNOWTAM text will be completely reprocessed parsed and validated by the application The popup will close itself and the search results will be refreshed The original SNOWTAM message will be given an updated status If the new SNOWTAM contained errors it will appear in the list with a rejected status Clicking on the Cancel button will close the popup without warning Any modification made in the Edit Text section will be lost nothing will be saved in database 7 14 3 Statuses SNOWTAM message may be in the following statuses e Rejected the application was not able to process the message automatically e Accepted the message has been processed and converted to contaminations e Updated a rejected message has been fixed and replace by a newer version by using the application 7 14 4 Types of errors Problems encountered during automatic parsing of EAD SNOWTAMS can be of the following types e ParsingWarnings e ParsingErrors e ConversionErrors ParsingErrors happen when the application is not able to parse the SNOWTAM due to erroneous syntaxes ParsingWarnings spot deviations from ICAO standard or values that cannot be understood correctly by the application but that do not prevent it to process the SNOWTAM Messages with Warnings only are not rejected and are available as usual in the Airport Overview and Airport Map pages ConversionErrors happen whe

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