The participants in the challenege will get a two month set of data from the National Airspace System, which includes a slew of data such as flight number, origin, destination, take-off time, arrival time, latitude and longitude at frequent interim waypoints along the journey and weather and wind data.
Then the system asked me to insert my passport so it could optically scan the special set of letters to identify me with the system and transmit the data to the Department of Homeland Security.