Hi-tech weather aids for airport by Sept

Mumbai: Three years after it was promised, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) is finally getting its act together for the proposed overhaul of all weather equipment at the country’s busiest aviation gateway, the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, in Mumbai.
While the plan for purchasing new weather aids, providing web-based meteorological information and interfacing Met computers with aeronautical telecommunication systems at Mumbai and Delhi was conceptualised as far back as 2004, the order for the first set of equipment for Mumbai was placed as recently as January this year. But final payments to the Australia-based Almos Systems—the design and manufacturing firm from which the products are being acquired—were made only in June, the month the equipment should have been commissioned.
Now, after multiple delays and several cost overruns, cabling work has finally kick-started at Mumbai airport near the runway 27 end and the system will be commissioned by September.
05/07/07 Lekha Agarwal/Mumbai Newsline

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Categories: Airports Jul 2007