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DGCA nod for Aircon 2100 in Mangalore International Airport

DGCA nod for Aircon 2100 in Mangalore International Airport


Mangalore Today News Network

Mangalore, Sep 6, 2013 : The Directorate General of Civil Aviation  has approved the Commissioning of Aircon 2100 a  state-of-the-art  automated air traffic management system  at the Mangalore international Airport.


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Aircon-2100 is one of the most advanced automated air traffic control system which meets International Civil Aviation Organization’s standard and recommended practices in air traffic management. The system will enhance the overall safety of air traffic control operation at Mangalore International Airport.


A press communiqué from JT Radhakrishna, Director of the Airport said the system procured from Indra, Spain had to undergo vigorous safety assessment and extensive trial operation in shadow mode before its commissioning.

 The system enhances the safety of the flights by providing the air traffic controllers with information of air movements from radar, flight plans, direction finders and air-ground data link messages (ADS/CPDLC). It also provides high degree of automation of the control tasks with flight plan management tools, automatic flight tracking system, automatic coordination between control positions and control centers, safety nets, medium term traffic conflict prediction tools etc, the release said.

The system is capable of processing data from other radar feeds like Bangalore, Chennai, Trivandrum etc and display at Mangalore to increase the area of radar coverage.


The control tools provided by the system assists the controller in decision making and judgment for safe handling of traffic and reduce their workload.The air traffic controllers get warning whenever an aircraft is at risk

 


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