Flight Awareness Collaboration Tool (FACT)

Winter weather such as snow, freezing precipitation, and ice can impact airport surface operations. These conditions may result in significant disruptions in arrival and departure rates. To address these issues, NASA Ames Research Center has developed a software application called the Flight Awareness Collaboration Tool (FACT). This tool is designed to reduce the number of unnecessary flight cancellations by improving situation awareness of an impending winter weather event and its effects on airports. FACT provides the necessary data for decision-making, and supports collaboration between the organizations involved in managing flight and airport operations. It gathers the information necessary for winter weather management into one location and has predictive tools. Being Web-based, it can be available to multiple users.