Secretary Civil Aviation holds meeting on fog Management

A meeting on fog management at IGI Airport was held on today under the Chairmanship of Secretary Civil Aviation to review preparedness of various agencies at IGI Airport in the light of ensuing fog season. Preparedness of all agencies like the Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL), Airport Authority of India (AAI) and Indian Metrological Department (IMD) were reviewed.
It was decide that DIAL will prepare a comprehensive document on all SOPs on Fog Management at IGI Airport. DIAL will also finalize the Low Visibility Procedure in coordination with AAI and publish it. There will be a detailed SOP for transfer of international passengers in co-ordination with the stakeholders.
AAI will prepare priority setting procedure in departure sequence during and immediately after LVP. AAI shall also keep diversionary airports ready for accepting the diverted aircraft from IGI Airport.
There will be a SOP for Fire Management during fog period. Adequate training will be imparted to personnel as part of preparedness for the fog period.

Besides these the following issues were also taken up:
• Preparation of priority setting procedure in departure sequence during and immediately after LVP has been prepared by AAI by allocating number of flights on the basis of airlines schedule. The procedure has been evolved by AAI in consultation with Airlines. Same will be reviewed by DGCA.
• Revised flight schedule for non-LVP compliant aircraft such as CRJ and ATR etc., for fog period submitted by Airlines will be reviewed by DGCA.
• Plan for mixed mode operation for distributing traffic from fog as well as noise point of view will be prepared to distribute traffic for all the runways.
• This year a total of 2048 CAT II/III compliant pilots are available with the Airlines. This number was around 1500 last year.
• DIAL was advised to explore possibility of making weather information/fog forecast available on Flight Information Display Systems within the passenger terminal/city side.
• Airlines website and helplines will be monitored for timely dissemination of flight information to passenger during the fog period.
22/12/10 PRESS RELEASE/Press Information Bureau

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Categories: Airports Dec 2010, Indian Aviation- In General Dec 2010