Mumbai: The Airports Authority of India (AAI) is in the process of interlinking radars of various regions to enhance air safety. India's airspace will soon be an integrated whole. As part of enhancing air traffic control (ATC) system and efficiency, Airports Authority of India (AAI) is in the process of integrating radars of various regions.
Last week, Chennai became the first region to integrate radars of all major airports like Chennai, Trivandrum and Cochin airports.
The Mumbai region will be the next followed by Delhi and Kolkata. The full integration will be complete by the end of 2012, officials said. AAI officials said that the radars of Nagpur and Ahmedabad airports will be interlinked with Mumbai airport. This will not only give better coverage of flight movements to all cities but also save aviation fuel. "Usually, flights headed in the same direction are separated from each other by 10 miles. However, when they have to go out of the range of one radar to the other, the separation has to be 80 miles to prevent any mishap in the gaps between two radars.
Since, horizontal separation of 80 miles isn't practically possible, they are vertically separated. Hence, many aircraft have to fly low and burn a lot of fuel in the process," said a enior air traffic control (ATC) official.
15/10/11 Chinmayi Shalya/Times of India
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