New Delhi: ATC officers will soon be able to manage air traffic at more than one airport and that too from any part of a city.
This has been made possible with a remote tower which has a facility to transmit pictures from airport via fibre optics and video transmission.
"In a remote tower, there are around 14 cameras which provide high resolution and higher angles of vision of an approaching and departing aircraft to an ATC official sitting at a place, which could be not at the airport but in the city.
"He monitors the pictures on a U-shaped screen and helps planes land and take off at different airports," says Michael Sahlberg, Marketing Director of the Swedish firm SAAB.
The company is installing the first operational site in Sundsvall and Ornskoldsvik for Air Traffic Control purposes in Sweden and then a remote tower would be installed in Varyo for a heliport.
14/10/12 PTI/Economic Times
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This has been made possible with a remote tower which has a facility to transmit pictures from airport via fibre optics and video transmission.
"In a remote tower, there are around 14 cameras which provide high resolution and higher angles of vision of an approaching and departing aircraft to an ATC official sitting at a place, which could be not at the airport but in the city.
"He monitors the pictures on a U-shaped screen and helps planes land and take off at different airports," says Michael Sahlberg, Marketing Director of the Swedish firm SAAB.
The company is installing the first operational site in Sundsvall and Ornskoldsvik for Air Traffic Control purposes in Sweden and then a remote tower would be installed in Varyo for a heliport.
14/10/12 PTI/Economic Times
