The Polish Air Navigation Services Agency (PANSA) is the only institution in Poland employing civilian air traffic controllers. As an organization with strategic goals focused on safety, effectiveness, and development, PANSA fully understands the current requirements and needs of air traffic controllers and other operational personnel.
The challenges related to digitalization and the need for easy and quick access to various information, while maintaining a high level of safety and reducing delays, necessitate new technological solutions.
To address these challenges and adapt to the changing environment, PANSA has developed and implemented its own Information Display System, PANDORA.
PANDORA is a system designed to display aeronautical information such as maps, meteorological data, frequencies, photographs, aircraft technical data, and other documents. The PANDORA system supports air traffic controllers and other operational personnel by providing real-time information through its internal database, while also enabling cooperation with other systems and utilizing their external sources of information.
As a system created and used by an airspace manager, PANDORA is a cyber-safe and modular solution for both civil and military airspace managers. The architecture of the PANDORA system allows for its full or partial implementation, in accordance with the current and future requirements and needs of users. The PANDORA system can be adapted in terms of language and evolving requirements (e.g., SESAR Program). Additionally, the PANDORA system complies with existing regulations on personal data protection (e.g., GDPR) and is compatible with existing Air Traffic Management (ATM) solutions used by civil and military airspace and air traffic managers (e.g., CAT system for real-time management of airspace structures and PANSA UTM system for coordination of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flights and digital management of applications and consents for flights in airspace).
The PANDORA system is a safe, complete, flexible, consistent, and open solution. It is centrally managed and operationally used by all air traffic services (ATS), primarily by air traffic controllers (ATC), the Flight Information Service (FIS), and the Airspace Management Cell (AMC) of PANSA.
“PANDORA is the result of the collaborative efforts of air traffic controllers and IT specialists. This tool was created to facilitate the work of ATC, and it has been so well-received that its user base has now expanded,” said Grzegorz Koślacz, ATM Project Specialist with 31 years of experience at PANSA.
