Ahmedabad area
control boundary is strategically located with Karachi to West and
Delhi, Nagpur and Mumbai towards North, East and South respectively. It
has become one of the busiest major ACCs today in India . A 474 and A347
connecting Delhi and Mumbai are the two busiest routes in India and
these routes are being intersected by two very busy International routes
in Ahmedabad TMA. Apart from this Ahmedabad TMA extends beyond the
control zone of Udaipur, Vadodara, Indore, Bhavnagar. Domestic traffic
to and fro from this Airfields criss-crosses different routes adding to
the more conflicts in climb and descend phases of flight.
Roughly
Ahmedabad area Ahmedabad being strategically located with Karachi to
West with international control centre provide route radar service under
its area of jurisdiction within the reliable coverage of radar measuring
an area of 50,000 square nautical miles. Within the airspace as per the
attached diagram all the flights are provided with direct routings as
far as practicable, desired cruising flight levels, most desired flight
profile and seamless Air Traffic Control service under Radar with the
exception of some grey areas towards the North-East of Ahmedabad that
lies beyond the radar coverage of both Delhi and Ahmedabad.
To improve
safety and efficiency of our airspace and to provide more optimum use of
desired flight levels by International and Domestic carrier some of the
grey areas need to be improved upon which are -
1. Radar
coverage towards north east direction of Ahmedabad and coverage of Delhi
radar towards the south needs to be improved. This will help provision
of seamless radar service from Delhi to Mumbai and may reduce present
longitudinal separation of 10 min to 5 min at same flight level if
desired by appropriate ATS authority and thus improve fuel efficiency
which will add to our national economy.
2. The
Restricted and Danger areas designated for Indian Military use have no
doubt got its importance for security and safety of our country, but
with proper coordination with Military authority those can be
relocated if practicable to improve safety and more utilization of
airspace in the Ahmedabad CTA. Impediments in Ahmedabad CTA are VAD-8,
VAD-219 near Indoor. VAR-35 falls on the ATS route W10. VAD-26, VAD-27
falling well within the ATS route N 893, G 472, N895, G451 all of
which are Internatioanl route and supposed to be free from
restrictions for more flexibility.
3. Presently
Rajkot, Jamnagar, Bhuj and Porbandar all lie within Mumbai FIC and
Flight information service is being provided by Mumbai FIC beyond
control zone of those Airfields. Ahmedabad being close to those
Airfields and having RSR facility and coverage of Radar can be handed
over those areas with proper sectorisation of our CTA so as to upgrade
the airspace structure & improve safety and efficiency of the airspace.
