At a time of increasing complexity of the air traffic system, it is important to minimise the risk arising from technical and engineered systems, and to ensure their correct functioning. The term “Air Traffic Safety Electronic Personnel” (ATSEP) has been developed to describe those technical specialists working to support the technical ATM services.

NATS has been at the forefront of the development of the ATSEP scheme and now offers the same high level training used to train our own in-house staff either by individual courses or as part of a full programme of Basic and Qualification courses.

The generic theoretical Surveillance concepts are presented using real world RADAR systems used by a world class ANSPs and cover the following topics;

• Full operation of Primary Surveillance Systems (Surface Movement, Approach and En-Route)
• Full operation of Monopulse Secondary Surveillance Systems (Traditional 3A/C and Mode S)
• Operation of Multilateration Systems
• Operation of Automatic Dependant Surveillance Systems (Broadcast (ADS-B) and Contract (ADS-C)
• Operation of Air Traffic Controller, Pilot and Engineering Control and Monitoring Human Machine Interfaces
• Surveillance Data Networks
• ATSEP Safety Attitude in the operation

We know that engineers learn best through practical means therefore the following practical labs has been set up to concrete the theoretical ideas covered throughout the course;

• Six Primary Surveillance System practical’s are covered using our own fully operation miniature PSR Labvolt RADAR which can operate using either Movement Target Detection or Moving Target Indication processing techniques as used out in field
• An extensive practical workbook that guides students through our very own fully operational Raytheon Mark 2 European Mode S Secondary Surveillance RADAR system as used at all of our NATS operational RADAR sites
• Demonstrations of PSR/SSR performance and control/monitoring is carried out on NATS real life systems in a training environment featuring real live RADAR plot data analysis. Demonstrations are carried out on our En-Route Control and Monitoring System (ERCAMS) and Surveillance Monitor Display (SMD) systems
• A Site Visit to a fully operational NATS combined (PSR/SSR) RADAR site where we tie all these subjects covered together and finally see these complex systems operating out in the field providing live RADAR data to ATC

The generic theoretical Surveillance concepts are presented using real world RADAR systems used by a world class ANSPs and cover the following topics:

• Full operation of Primary Surveillance Systems (Surface Movement, Approach and En-Route)
• Full operation of Monopulse Secondary Surveillance Systems (Traditional 3A/C and Mode S)
• Operation of Multilateration Systems
• Operation of Automatic Dependant Surveillance Systems (Broadcast (ADS-B) and Contract (ADS-C)
• Operation of Air Traffic Controller, Pilot and Engineering Control and Monitoring Human Machine Interfaces
• Surveillance Data Networks
• ATSEP Safety Attitude in the operation

We know that engineers learn best through practical means therefore the following practical labs has been set up to concrete the theoretical ideas covered throughout the course:-

• Six Primary Surveillance System practical’s are covered using our own fully operation miniature PSR Labvolt RADAR which can operate using either Movement Target Detection or Moving Target Indication processing techniques as used out in field
• An extensive practical workbook that guides students through our fully operational Raytheon Mark 2 European Mode S Secondary Surveillance RADAR system as used at NATS operational RADAR sites.
• Demonstrations of PSR/SSR performance and control/monitoring is carried out on NATS real life systems in a training environment featuring real live RADAR plot data analysis. Demonstrations are carried out on our En-Route Control and Monitoring System (ERCAMS) and Surveillance Monitor Display (SMD) systems
• A Site Visit to a fully operational NATS combined (PSR/SSR) RADAR site where we tie all these subjects together and finally see these complex systems operating out in the field providing live RADAR data to ATC

ATSEP Basic training or equivalent proven knowledge and experience.

10 days

NATS Training Centre, Whiteley, UK