Chennai:
The
project which will be implemented after
three phases of trial operations after Regulatory Safety
Assessments, will go a long way not only in alleviating the workload
of
controllers but also in improving
operational efficiency of Air Navigation Service in the Oceanic
Airspace and enabling aircraft to obtain
their optimum flight profile with enhanced safety .
Chennai Airport would be able to save 1,300 tones of air
fuel besides reducing carbon emissions to the tune of 4,000 tonnes per year
with segregation of air traffic controllers handling arrival and departure of
aircraft.
Sylvester
Israel, General Manager Air Traffic Management, Chennai told Express that earlier
there was a single air traffic controller who would be handling both departures
and arrivals.
This resulted
in the airport handling only 29 aircraft per year but with the segregation now
there will be a separate air traffic controller handling the departure and
another for arrival.
As a result the
efficiency of the airport would be increased significantly. “Now a total of 32
aircraft (both arrival and departure) can be handled per hour. We will increase
it to 36 aircraft per hour,” he said.
This could save
fuel as air traffic controllers can plan landing and departures by spacing
between two aircraft.
Similarly,
there is a plan to bifurcate the Oceanic
airspace of Chennai which spans an area
of around 4,00,000 Square nautical miles through which around 400 International
Overflying aircraft transit daily using the 14 International routes providing
the vital connectivity between East and Western parts of the Globe .
He said Airport
Authority of India, Chennai, has undertaken the project of Sectorising the
Oceanic Airspace on trial basis. The airspace is split into two sectors after assessing the workload
of the controllers, traffic density in each sector , number of traffic conflict points requiring
controllers’ intervention and the
communication or surveillance facilities
available in each sector.
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