India's aviation sector is one of the fastest growing aviation markets in the world. In the last decade, domestic air traffic has more than quadrupled from 13 million to 60 million while international traffic more than tripled to 40 million. On the flip side, India is already experiencing the effects of increased air traffic, including congestion, extra fuel burn, noise levels around airports and flight delays.
Aviation stakeholders in India have been working to alleviate air traffic congestion through their Future Air Navigation System (FANS) master plan to "modernize the skies" -- part of which is the use of Performance-based Navigation (PBN) technologies that will allow aircraft to fly more accurate, yet flexible, flight paths.
As the cornerstone to airspace modernization efforts, PBN has the ability to bring efficiency, predictability and increased capacity to airspace. These flight paths, which utilize satellite-based navigation technology, have the ability to solve a number of operational issues including improved airport access, reduction in flight time and fuel burn, and simplification of pilot/controller workload.
21/10/13 moneycontrol.com
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Aviation stakeholders in India have been working to alleviate air traffic congestion through their Future Air Navigation System (FANS) master plan to "modernize the skies" -- part of which is the use of Performance-based Navigation (PBN) technologies that will allow aircraft to fly more accurate, yet flexible, flight paths.
As the cornerstone to airspace modernization efforts, PBN has the ability to bring efficiency, predictability and increased capacity to airspace. These flight paths, which utilize satellite-based navigation technology, have the ability to solve a number of operational issues including improved airport access, reduction in flight time and fuel burn, and simplification of pilot/controller workload.
21/10/13 moneycontrol.com
