AAI to Develop 50 Low-Cost Airports
"In the modern age of air traffic services, we have automation in both the Air Traffic Management (ATM) and CNS which is known together as CNS-ATM.
"Analysis of human factors can improve overall performance, reduce technical risks in system acquisitions, lower life-cycle costs of systems and equipment, improve human interfaces with the system and contribute to economic decisions on controller training, besides providing other benefits," Kobiraj said.
Speaking on the occasion, AAI regional executive director (East) S Bhaduri said that phenomenal growth in air traffic over the last two decades and similar projected figures for coming years coupled with much faster moving aircraft have made civil aviation system designers the world over to think over its massive upgradation.
Today's Air Traffic Services (ATS) is all about seamless surveillance coverage over vast airspace with comparable VHF coverage, fewer FIRs, and redundancy, Bhaduri said.
"Upper Airspace Harmonisation (UAH) of our FIRs is one of the latest 'Aviation System Block Upgrades' to happen in Indian Airspace, which has been applauded at International forums of repute," he said.
The UAH is already in place in Chennai whereas in Kolkata it is being implemented. It would come up next in Delhi and Mumbai.
"From ACCs and FIRs being single radar systems earlier, we are transiting to seamless surveillance coverage over redesigned FIRs with comparable VHF coverage and multiple surveillance fused sensors," he said.
Director of the NSC Bose International Airport in Kolkata Dr BP Sharma said that the state-of-the-art new terminal building had already bagged a number of international awards.
The NSC Bose International Airport has secured rating of 4.42 and Chennai Airport has secured rating of 4.3 in the recent Airports Service Quality (ASQ) survey, Sharma said.
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