Mumbai/Delhi: India's aviation regulator has mandated airline crew to be trained on the Aircraft Communication Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS), an in-flight digital communications system that, among other things, helps track planes after they have gone out of radar coverage, a senior DGCA official said. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation currently doesn't mandate ACARS in its rules which is recommended by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), although it is compulsory only for flights across north-Atlantic routes.
ACARS is like an on-board computer which collects large chunks of information about aircraft health and performance and "talks" in digital messages to the ground-level control centre, the airline and even the engine manufacturer.
When a plane is about to take off, an automatic message is triggered from the aircraft, via ACARS, to the operations control center, which records the departure time. The same procedure is followed when the flight lands. ACARS captures OOOI (out, off, on, in) timings, the collective term for the four phases of an aircraft's flight which is Out ( leaving the gate), Off ( take off), On ( touch down) and In ( arrival at the gate).
31/03/14 Debabrata Das & Anirban Chowdhury/Economic Times
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ACARS is like an on-board computer which collects large chunks of information about aircraft health and performance and "talks" in digital messages to the ground-level control centre, the airline and even the engine manufacturer.
When a plane is about to take off, an automatic message is triggered from the aircraft, via ACARS, to the operations control center, which records the departure time. The same procedure is followed when the flight lands. ACARS captures OOOI (out, off, on, in) timings, the collective term for the four phases of an aircraft's flight which is Out ( leaving the gate), Off ( take off), On ( touch down) and In ( arrival at the gate).
31/03/14 Debabrata Das & Anirban Chowdhury/Economic Times
