ASDE-X Taxiway Arrival Prediction notifies controllers when a plane is waiting on a taxiway to prevent crashes if an inbound flight has to land on that tarmac.
, the software is called ASDE-X Taxiway Arrival Prediction , and uses radar and sensors to detect planes that are lining up on airport taxiways—not runways—and preparing for takeoff. The software will then notify air traffic controllers, who can then notify the pilots of inbound aircrafts, thereby preventing wrong surface events. The FAA told Axios that there were 1,641 of these events from October 2016 to the end of 2022, though 83% of those events did not involve commercial aircrafts.
“ATAP provides an extra layer of safety for pilots and passengers at airports with multiple parallel runways and taxiways,” said Captain Jeffrey Sedin, airport ground environment chairman with the Air Line Pilots Association, in an FAAThe FAA said in its post that the ATAP software has prevented 50 wrong-surface landings since it was first introduced in 2018 at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. In 2023, there have already been eight alerts.
“All saves are equal,” said Giovanni Dipierro, former manager of the FAA’s Runway Safety Group, in the FAA’s blog post. “Aircraft as small as a Cessna Caravan 208 up to a Boeing 757 have been sent around due to an ATAP alert.
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