AAI gearing up for making air traffic flow smooth

New Delhi: Keeping pace with the burgeoning air traffic in the country, the Airports Authority of India (AAI) is moving ahead with several major measures to shift from ground to satellite-based communication, navigation and surveillance (CNS) systems to make the traffic flow smoother.
The public sector organisation, which has been designated by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) to provide CNS services to planes flying over 3.8 million square kms of oceanic region apart from land mass of 2.2 sq kms, has already placed 40 Indian airports on satellite-based systems and would cover 40 more by this year end.
Besides this, it was already testing the prototype of the GAGAN system, jointly developed with the Indian Space Research Organisation, AAI Chairman K Ramalingam told a workshop on CNS and air traffic management (ATM) status in the country.
The ambitious Rs 644 crore GPS-based Geo Augmentation Navigation (GAGAN) project would provide augmented information for satellite navigation to aircraft flying over Indian airspace and the routes over the high seas, he said at a workshop organised by the Asia Pacific Aviation Media Association (APAMA) here.
04/07/07 Economic Times

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