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When they return to school this fall, air traffic management students at Daniel Webster College (DWC) will be training on equipment for use in ATC training installed just this summer at its Nashua campus by UFA, Inc., of Woburn, MA.

The ATTower Radar Simulator, customized to meet the specific needs of Daniel Webster College's Air Traffic Management programs -– now a four year baccalaureate program begun in the 1970s and a new non-traditional evening air traffic control program that begins in September 2005 for students currently holding college degrees -- features four controller positions with integrated voice recognition, four assistant controller positions, and four supervisor/pilot positions; all positions are equipped with simulated air-to-ground communications and land line telephony.

According to DWC Professor Roger G. Bachieri, the new equipment "modernizes the college's program to maintain pace with the modernization of the national air space system."

According to Peter Bischof, of UFA's subsidiary, ATCSim GmbH, who, along with staff from UFA's Woburn office, delivered, installed, and trained Daniel Webster's faculty on the equipment, the ATTower Radar provides high fidelity simulation and display of radar data, flight data, and weather data. Additionally, the installation includes UFA's ATVoice integrated voice recognition that recognizes a student controller's spoken clearance to the simulated aircraft, automatically implements that clearance and generates the required pilot response, and ATRadio, which provides simulated air-to-ground communications and land line telephony to the student controller using Voice over the Internet Protocol technologies.

Daniel Webster College's air traffic management major is one of only 13 academic programs recognized by the FAA as part of its Collegiate Training Initiative (CTI) and all three of its aviation majors — aviation management, air traffic management, and aviation flight operations — are accredited by the Council on Aviation Accreditation (CAA). Additionally, the college's flight training program (professional pilot) is approved under the guidelines of Federal Aviation Regulation Parts 141 and 61, and all instructors are Certified Flight Instructors.

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