It is a paperless, computer-based system, which serves as an aid to civilian air traffic controllers.
The two main area control centres in Brisbane and Melbourne both have roughly 42 operational consoles or "suites" and each suite has four computer screens: There are two flight information regions (FIRs) separated by an approximately diagonal line running from the northwest near the border with Indonesia to the southeast near Sydney.
The physical Brisbane Centre will remain, however its facilities will only be used for air traffic control in the local area around Brisbane, as is the current case with the Terminal Control Units (TCUs) located in Perth and Sydney which were once responsible for their own FIRs under the previous structure.
Both Brisbane and Melbourne Centres contain 42 individual workstations divided into groups responsible for different sectors within each of their FIRs.
[4] The system introduced new features to air traffic control in Australia including conflict alerting and conformance monitoring.