25th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 3 - 8 September 2006, Hamburg, Germany
Paper ICAS 2006-8.11.3

SNOWFLAKE - DESIGNING AND ORGANISING A WINTER EXERCISE FOR SCHIPHOL AIRPORT

H. J. Abma, E.- J. S. Hartlieb
NLR, Netherlands

Keywords: training, CDM, winter, airside, airports

Snowflake was a winter exercise held in October 2005 to prepare airside operations teams from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, KLM and Air Traffic Control the Netherlands (LVNL) for the forthcoming winter. The exercise was carried out by connecting NLR’s Air Traffic Control Research Simulator (NARSIM Tower) to a test version of the Central Information System Schiphol (CISS) thus creating a hub simulation facility.

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