Recognizing the need for more effective face-to-face dialogue, Director General of Civil Aviation Arun Singh has instructed all regions to formally put in place a platform where pilots and controllers can regularly meet to clarify issues and clear differences. Kolkata has taken the lead in the matter and is set to organize the first such formal Controllers' and Pilots' Interactive Forum (CAPIF) later this month. A steering committee has been set up to discuss complete functionality of CAPIF.
"Kolkata did organize a CAPIF in 2007 and again in 2010. A CAPIF was also held in Guwahati in 2010in which controllers from 12 stations in the northeast as well as Air Force participated. But all of them happened due to the personal initiative of some. There was a need to institutionalize the process and make CAPIF a regular feature of civil aviation in India and that is what we are set to initiate from Kolkata," Singh told TOI.
To understand and appreciate each other's concerns, constraints and work environment, airline pilots will have to visit the area and tower control and spend some time there.
Controllers, too, will be encouraged to get into the cockpit whenever a plane is making a long stop-over at the airport. A proposal to get a controller to actually get into a pilot's seat at a simulator is also on the table.
17/06/13 Subhro Niyogi/Times of India
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"Kolkata did organize a CAPIF in 2007 and again in 2010. A CAPIF was also held in Guwahati in 2010in which controllers from 12 stations in the northeast as well as Air Force participated. But all of them happened due to the personal initiative of some. There was a need to institutionalize the process and make CAPIF a regular feature of civil aviation in India and that is what we are set to initiate from Kolkata," Singh told TOI.
To understand and appreciate each other's concerns, constraints and work environment, airline pilots will have to visit the area and tower control and spend some time there.
Controllers, too, will be encouraged to get into the cockpit whenever a plane is making a long stop-over at the airport. A proposal to get a controller to actually get into a pilot's seat at a simulator is also on the table.
17/06/13 Subhro Niyogi/Times of India
