In the past
years the Italian Research Aerospace Center (CIRA) developed several
simulation facilities able to reproduce in real time the behavior of manned
and unmanned aircrafts, air traffic scenario and to emulate Air Traffic
Management (ATM)/Air Traffic Control (ATC). In order to allow a simulation in
which all these facilities interact among them, also including pilots and
ground control station operators in the loop, a real-time Integrated
Simulation Facility (ISF) was realized. The first purpose of the ISF is to
perform, in a real-time simulation environment, the validation and
verification of new ground and onboard systems through the simulation of
complex scenarios. The second purpose of ISF is to develop, verify and
optimize new procedures for the air traffic management.