Flight tech boost for region

Calcutta: Repetitive flight plans may sound like aviation jargon to a layman. But for airport officials and airline operators in the region, it is what they aspire to achieve. And it seems to be on the cards at the conclusion of a three-day ATS coordination meeting between India and Bangladesh here today.
If things work out, then the N-E skies will be much safer and civil aviation will be much more organised.
“All the details of a regularly-operated flight, its route, time and so on are submitted by a pilot in a repetitive flight plan (RPL). However, none of the airports in the Northeast have this system because of lack of approval from Bangladesh. In the meet, it was decided to give the RPL a seven-day trial run in the Northeast,” Malay Datta, general manager (ATM), Airports Authority of India, N-E regional headquarters, said at the conclusion of the meeting, which was held after eight years.
According to Datta, this system-generated flight plan will increase efficiency and improve communication between aviation authorities of India and Bangladesh.
“When the rest of the country is using this advanced technology, we are still lagging behind and are using age-old methods of manual data input. Unnecessary errors and mishaps can be avoided once it is activated,” Datta said.
23/07/11 The Telegraph

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Categories: Airports Jul 2011