Free flight an air traffic management partnership

It is generally recognized that an air traffic management system involving free flight throughout the National Airspace System (NAS) presents the opportunity to safely increase system productivity. The Lockheed Martin team has developed an enabling vision for free flight referred to as Air Traffic Management Partnership (ATMP), offering the ability to realize the full potential of free flight. Our approach focuses on a reallocation of responsibilities among the principal operators of the airspace system, namely, pilots on the Flight Deck (FD), managers working for the Air Traffic Service Provider (ATSP), and dispatchers working in the Airline Operations Center (AOC). ATMP is a cooperative system of modern technologies to realize a balanced allocation of responsibility and resources for increased safety, efficiency, and capacity of the global airspace complex.