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flight progress strip is a small strip of paper used to track a flight in
air traffic control. It may seem as an artifact of days gone by, however it is still used in modern ATC as a quick way to annotate a flight, to keep a legal record of the instructions that were issued, to allow others to see instantly what is happening and to pass this information to other controllers who go on to control the flight.
The strip is mounted in a plastic boot called a 'strip holder' and placed with other strips in a 'strip board' which is then used as a representation of all flights in a particular sector of airspace or on an airport. The colour of the strip holder itself often has a meaning. The strip board has vertical rails that constrain the strips in several stacks ('bays').
The position of the strip in the board is a significant part of the information of the strip board: instrument approach and area controllers often keep their strips in level (altitude) order and each bay might represent a geographical position, whereas
control tower controllers use the bays to represent the ground, the runway and the air. Each bay might be further sub-divided using 'designator strips' and metal bars to allow even more information to be portrayed by the position of a flight progress strip. Other special strips can be used to indicate special airspace statuses, or to represent the presence of physical obstructions or vehicles on the ground. They may even be used to provide a quick reminder to the controller of other pertinent information, e.g. the time when night begins or ends.
In some countries, flight progress strips have been replaced by computer systems. This is not always a problem free transition, since physical strips have many characteristics that a computer system cannot replicate. In fact, the term "handoff," which is used today to denote the computerized transfer of control of an aircraft from one sector to another, comes from the older technique of physically handing off the flight progress strip to the next controller to denote the transfer of responsibility. This technique is still used today within some control towers, for example the ground controller may physically hand the strip to the local controller as the aircraft reaches the runway, or the local controller will drop the strip and strip holder down a chute to the departure radar controller in the room below, once the aircraft has been cleared for takeoff.
There are many styles of progress strip layouts, but minor differences aside, a strip contains at least:
- Aircraft Identification (e.g. aircraft registration or a flight number)
- Aircraft Type as the relevant 4-letter ICAO designator (e.g. B744 for a Boeing 747-400)
- Level (Assigned Altitude)
- Departure and Destination
- At least one time in four figures (other times can be shortened to minutes only).
Other information may be added as required.
For flights whose flight plans are previously known, strips are initially printed from a computer and often contain more information than this. Further information is then added by controllers and assistants in various coloured pens to show the role of person making the annotation. For 'free-calling' aircraft (generally smaller aircraft transiting airspace), strips must be fully hand-written by the controller or assistant from information passed by radio.
See also
The use of Flight Progress Strips at Ronaldsway Airport, Isle of Man,
British Isles
References
FAAO 7110.65 Chapter 2: General Control, Section 3: Flight Progress Strips
UK CAP493 Manual of Air Traffic Services, Part 1 Appendix D
A
flight progress strip is a small strip of paper used to track a flight in
air traffic control. It may seem as an artifact of days gone by, however it is still used in modern ATC as a quick way to annotate a flight, to keep a legal record of the instructions that were issued, to allow others to see instantly what is happening and to pass this information to other controllers who go on to control the flight.
The strip is mounted in a plastic boot called a 'strip holder' and placed with other strips in a 'strip board' which is then used as a representation of all flights in a particular sector of airspace or on an airport. The colour of the strip holder itself often has a meaning. The strip board has vertical rails that constrain the strips in several stacks ('bays').
The position of the strip in the board is a significant part of the information of the strip board: instrument approach and area controllers often keep their strips in level (altitude) order and each bay might represent a geographical position, whereas
control tower controllers use the bays to represent the ground, the runway and the air. Each bay might be further sub-divided using 'designator strips' and metal bars to allow even more information to be portrayed by the position of a flight progress strip. Other special strips can be used to indicate special airspace statuses, or to represent the presence of physical obstructions or vehicles on the ground. They may even be used to provide a quick reminder to the controller of other pertinent information, e.g. the time when night begins or ends.
In some countries, flight progress strips have been replaced by computer systems. This is not always a problem free transition, since physical strips have many characteristics that a computer system cannot replicate. In fact, the term "handoff," which is used today to denote the computerized transfer of control of an aircraft from one sector to another, comes from the older technique of physically handing off the flight progress strip to the next controller to denote the transfer of responsibility. This technique is still used today within some control towers, for example the ground controller may physically hand the strip to the local controller as the aircraft reaches the runway, or the local controller will drop the strip and strip holder down a chute to the departure radar controller in the room below, once the aircraft has been cleared for takeoff.
There are many styles of progress strip layouts, but minor differences aside, a strip contains at least:
- Aircraft Identification (e.g. aircraft registration or a flight number)
- Aircraft Type as the relevant 4-letter ICAO designator (e.g. B744 for a Boeing 747-400)
- Level (Assigned Altitude)
- Departure and Destination
- At least one time in four figures (other times can be shortened to minutes only).
Other information may be added as required.
For flights whose flight plans are previously known, strips are initially printed from a computer and often contain more information than this. Further information is then added by controllers and assistants in various coloured pens to show the role of person making the annotation. For 'free-calling' aircraft (generally smaller aircraft transiting airspace), strips must be fully hand-written by the controller or assistant from information passed by radio.
See also
The use of Flight Progress Strips at Ronaldsway Airport,
Isle of Man,
British Isles
References
FAAO 7110.65 Chapter 2: General Control, Section 3: Flight Progress Strips
UK CAP493 Manual of Air Traffic Services, Part 1 Appendix D
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