AAI to integrate radars in southern region

Chennai: In a new initiative, the Airports Authority of India (AAI) will interlink area control radars in the southern region to eliminate radar blind spots and ensure improved air safety and efficient air traffic control. This, sources say, is the first step towards achieving a "single sky" concept.
Secondary radars or Monopulse Secondary Surveillance Radars (MSSR) at Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Thiruvananthapuram will be interlinked.
The project, part of air traffic control automation in Chennai, will be completed in June, AAI chairman V P Agrawal said on Friday.
On the lines of the Single European Sky (SES) project proposed by the European Commission in 1999, the AAI aims to shrink its flight information regions areas where MSSR monitor flight movements over an area of 250 nautical miles or more.
Once radars are interlinked, ATCs at these four airports will be able to see the data position of flights, speed, altitude and other information from areas under control of every radar in the region.
The AAI plans to install area control radars at Bellary and Vizag in six months and then in Kochi. These too will be connected to the network, Agrawal added.
08/01/11 V Ayyappan/Times of India

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