Nagpur Airport operations shifts to finer gear

By Vikas Vaidya



With high level of automation system and surveillance sensors available, it has been decided by Airports Authority of India (AAI) to provide Approach Control Service for arriving and departing aircraft based on Radar (Surveillance sensor) at Nagpur’s Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar International Aiport. This will not only save the time and fuel but also will help in increasing safety of passangers. With reduction in time, it will pave way for more number of flights to operate at this airport.
Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Airport, Nagpur presently caters to around 46 scheduled and 5 numbers of flight movements per day. Besides these movements, Nagpur Airport Runway also caters to flight operations to Air India MRO unit situated adjacent to Airport.
Often the schedule movements take place in bunches during several periods of any given day. Airports Authority of India provides Air Traffic Control (ATC) and Communication Navigation and Surveillance (CNS) Services at Nagpur Airport. Until recently, Air Traffic Control Centre at the Airport, Nagpur managed the safe handling of different arrivals and departures using procedural control techniques. But this was to be done through manual calculations. The system was there but Nagpur airport was not authorised to use it due to lack of manpower plus with less number of flights the system was not that necessary. With the beginning of operation of this system, the officer at ATC does not have to do any calculation even the aircraft comes down say below 15,000 meter. He or she can know second to second position of aircraft and can guide the other aircraft at ground. With everything is visible ATC can tell aircraft when to land. In earlier system the aircraft used to take 7 minutes for landing as both ATC and Pilot were identifying each other through talk. The manual calculation can not be that perfect. In that case, many times aircraft had to stay in air consuming fuel without any reason. Radar based approach control will provide safety too. The time will reduce to 2 minutes
Airport Director AAI at Nagpur airport Roshan Kamble said, “Now keeping in view the current Air Traffic situations and also forecast for increase in Air Traffic flow in future, it was felt by AAI to enhance the Air Traffic services by provision of Approach Control Services for arrival/departures using surveillance based techniques.” Provision of surveillance (Radar) based approach control will be greatly beneficial in enhancement of safety, efficiency and fuel/airline operations cost savings. The arrivals and departures will be sequenced and managed more efficiently by ATC resulting in saving of time and fuel cost to airlines.
“Initially the operation has started for four hours in the morning. Gradually it will be extended for evening flights also. We have developed our own simulator unit to train the manpower. This simulator gives tougher practice to the trainers so that he or she can work at ease during actual handling of the system,” pointed out Kamble. The running of operation of system is being looked after by Ashish Soni and Neeraj Shrivastava along with their team.

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