ABSTRACT
This chapter describes research, validating design knowledge for air traffic management (ATM). The knowledge is applied to an ATM simulation to diagnose design problems, associated with controller planning horizons. The case-study is judged a success. The design knowledge is correctly operationalised, tested and generalised to a simulation, more complex than that used to develop the knowledge. The prompt might be to direct the controller to return an aircraft to its original airway more quickly, thus enabling performance parameters to become as desired and so solving this particular design problem. The reconstructed validation air traffic management diagnosis meets the requirements of being a design problem, associated with controller planning. The management involves track and vertical separation rules. Planning is supported by paper flight progress strips and controlling by radar.
