Flight Service Stations

The Liberty-STAR VCS provides reliable voice communication every step of the way

The Flight Service Station is a facility provided to pilots and flight operators for filing flight plans, and for collecting flight condition and safety data for particular destinations, alternate airports and other flight information.

Flight Service Stations also play a key role in search and rescue operations. When a flight plan's calculated arrival time is not met, the FSS launches the distress phase, alerting airports along the aircraft's planned flight route, as well as military search and rescue authorities.

To the Flight Service Specialists (FSS) and the pilots they serve, reliable voice communication is paramount. But reliability is not the only concern. An effective FSS Voice Communication System (VCS) should accommodate an abundance of radio channels, offer a wide variety of interphone options and integrate these capabilities seamlessly. The system should be easy to use, allowing FSS personnel to focus on their mission, not the hardware. The Liberty-STAR Voice Communication System (VCS) delivers on all these points.

Full range of controls to help flight service operators communicate effectively

With the Liberty-STAR, flight service specalists have access to a complete range of features to communicate quickly and easily with personnel in the air and on the ground. On login, specialists are presented with the features they need for their tasks: ground/ground controls for pre-flight specialists; air/ground controls for in-flight specialists. Depending on their responsiblities, features available to flight service specialists enable them to easily:

• Communicate over air/ground circuits
• Communicate over ground/ground circuits
• Couple air/ground and ground/ground audio
• Ceate progressive or preprogrammed conference calls
• Utilize call hold, call forwarding, and ring-no-answer features
• Speed dial
• Route audio to headset or speaker
• Select multiple channels
• Regroup radio channels
• Connect operator and supervisor audio for briefings
• Control radio frequencies
• Toggle channel label display
• Control squelch

Choice of operator panels

The Liberty-STAR offers a choice of touch-screen or push-button controller panels.

• Touch-screen operator panels operate on a standard IBM-compatible computer. The Graphical User Interface (GUI) can be accessed via touch-screen or mouse and can be easily configured to suit the operational requirements of the facility and individual operator.
• Push-button operator panels include a variety of operator modules that allow for efficient radio, intercom and interphone circuit operation.

Exceptional system reliability with built-in redundancy

The Liberty-STAR VCS provides greater than 99.999% (5-nines) availability. Reliability is ensured by:

• Continuous online diagnostics
• Redundant communication circuits
• Remote maintenance
• Physical component distribution

Click on this link to request more information about using the Liberty-STAR VCS for flight services applications.