MrATC MrATC is open source air traffic control software intended as a replacement for the antiquated air traffic control system currently in use in the United States. The project will start out in simulations, with the ultimate goal of actual implementation someday. The project is divided into three sub-projects: air traffic control systems radar simulation system airplane simulation software The air traffic control systems will need to be further subdivided into three sub-projects: enroute, tracon, and departure/approach. They will start out in simulation and eventually graduate to actual implementation. The other two sub-projects are for simulation purposes only. The radar system will simulate a real radar system and feed bulk plane location information to the air traffic control system. The airplane simulators will simulate an assortment of commercial aircraft, reporting things like current altitude, latitude, longitude, air speed, and heading to the radar system. During simulation, the various systems will communicate with each other over the public Internet, using HTTP. When physically implemented, systems will still communicate via HTTP, but over a private IP network. The links to planes will run IP over radio data networks. No programming language has been selected yet. All of the different systems should be coded in the same language. There should be someone in charge of each of the different systems: radar simulator, aircraft simulator, enroute air traffic control, tracon air traffic control, and departure/approach control. Once there is someone to lead each of the different projects, a programming language can be selected. If you are interested in being a project lead, please contact me. Project Summary Current edition of this page Project hosted by