Frequentis DFS Aerosense is implementing a system to validate a high-capacity virtual control tower at Munich Airport.

• This is intended to determine the potential of such solutions for hub airports and make them ready for deployment
• The system is to support complex operations including mixed approaches and departures, and independent parallel runway operations

In an initial project phase, the potential and suitability of the virtual tower for larger airports such as Munich will be determined and validated from both an operational and technical perspective.

Subsequently, specific use cases can be defined, for example, setting up a virtual tower as an interim system during the renovation of the control tower at Munich Airport required in the coming years.

The technical and the operational validations are currently carried out.

The working environment of the virtual tower will be located at the DFS branch in Munich. The 360-degree panorama cameras and the pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras will be mounted on the existing control tower as part of the project. The 4K cameras will transmit the information to high-resolution screens in the DFS branch, serving as the best possible substitute for the view from the tower itself.