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In focus Civil Aviation Training College, India. |
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In focus Civil Aviation Training College, India. |
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B. N. MADHAVA RAO, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
and Principal of the institute, did
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Mr. Vinod K. Yadava,
in his capacity as General Manager (ATM) is During his three tenures totalling over two decades at Mumbai airport he had held all ATC ratings including TAR, RSR and PAR and was responsible for conducting on the Job training and examinations for ATCO’s ratings in all the ATC units with distinction of implementing training program successfully for automation of ATC system in 1999. Following requisite training of ATC personnel on the new system, a smooth transfer of control from conventional old to new automation system was done with careful planning and switch over under his leadership. He has also served at CATC earlier from 1990 to 1998 as senior instructor and conducted all procedural and radar courses on various simulators. Being an expert in instructional techniques, he was also associated for conducting ‘Instructors Development Program (IDP)’ at CATC based on the ICAO TRAINAIR STP. Besides his operational contributions in ATC he has also been an ICAO fellow and participated in various seminars and workshops in India and abroad. Currently, he is engaged with his challenging role of meeting the requirement of additional trained man power to fulfill shortage amongst ATCOs cadre in India due to ever increasing activities in civil aviation by enhancing the training output of ATC personnel at CATC along with his team of dedicated instructors. To understand this, one may imagine working at CATC with 40 odd instructors while imparting training to two radar courses with 20 trainees along with ten other non-radar courses like ADC/APP, JET (ATC), ACC, AIS, SAR, and PANS/OPS etc. with batch strength of 12 or more.
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"By
family tradition, I am a
I read a lot. I like to read fiction on contemporary society happenings, fiction based on history like “Exodus” and “Gone With The Wind”, travelogues, geography oriented documents. I have read over and again the voluminous book “Mahabharatam” written by Chakravarti Rajagopalachari. Each time I read, I had understood new human characteristics. In the first readings the heroics of the Pandavas came into focus; thereafter, the reasoning techniques, the diplomacy, courtesy procedures, final decision making process all slowy dawn on me as I grow and relate the the readings with our contemporary situations. The last travelogue I read was “A Malaysian Journey” by Rehman Rashid, a young Malaysian writer. It is about his discovery of the nation Malaysia during his nationwide travel upon return after a long exile. He interlaces descriptions of the landscape and brief accounts on the nation’s political and economic evolution from just before its independence from the British in 1957 till the early nineties. His English, his wit and pragmatism and above all the print are all delightful. The latest fiction I read with great enjoyment was Chetan Bhagat’s “A Five Point Someone” which is about the campus life of a group of below-average IIT students. It is a commentary on the peer-pressure brought on the youngsters by the IIT-system. I am generally a sports watcher rather than a player. Perhaps I am bit of a loner. Beside reading the newspapers extensively, I like to solve “Su-do-ku” and crossword puzzles, surf internet looking for information on current world affairs, and information related to tourism. My favourite TV programme is BBC World‘s “Asia Today” followed immediately by ”Asia Business Report” for a total 30 minutes period in the mornings of the weekdays. I believe in general that one should help others when they need and ask. In these circumstances, I would like to ask myself “Why not?” instead of “Why?” At least, in one occasion somebody else adopted this attitude when I needed help. I lived in Vasant Kunj area in Delhi during the period 96-02. One summer, I had visitors – a family of four adults, who stayed in my house for about 5 days. Vasant Kunj is rocky area and is known for water shortage. We used to get supply for an hour in the morning in our individual sump tanks and we had to pump the same to our individual overhead tanks. One always hopes that both the tanks are full when water supply comes. One day, there was no water supply and in no time the overhead tank was empty. Luckily, the occupant of the flat above, one Aju Abraham, was alone. He was willing to transfer water stock from his sump tank as well as overhead tank as much as we wanted. When I met him later to thank him, I said with all sincerity “I believe in the existence of God, and I see His grace now”
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"I am
proud to be born in the ancient holy
My career in ATC began at Mumbai where I had the opportunity to begin my career in ATC as a student of Late Mr J. Prince, a legend professional of yesteryear in ATC who needs no introduction to ATCOs in India. I must confess, his guidance has left a great impact in my mind to be pursued as and when opportunity arose for me as an ATC instructor. To begin with I was designated OJTI after attaining all ratings at Mumbai including PAR and was subsequently posted at CATC from 1990 to 1998 as SAO/DD. I thoroughly enjoyed my heavy engagements in several courses for ATC professionals both in Radar and non-radar including ab-initio and specialist courses. During this period I was awarded ICAO fellowship for training in IT and also engaged in "Instructional Techniques" courses for Instructors of CATC and other field stations. Again, in 1998, I was given a challenging assignment of training ATCOs on Raytheon system and shift operations thereafter. The task was successfully accomplished with full support of dedicated 5 OJTIs and the system was put to operations smoothly. It may be worth while to mention that this job was done despite my not being associated earlier with training and development program on the Raytheon system before being posted as DD/AddlGM(Trg). After successful accomplishment of the task, I ventured as GM/Airport Director at Ahmedabad for 13 months and rejuvenated the staff and officers for putting their best resulting in substantial rise in the Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI) on consecutive three surveys after which I was posted at CATC as Chief Instructor(ATM). After joining at CATC in my second tenure, I along with other instructors, have tried to boost the training output substantially in order to meet the challenges of shortages prevailing at almost all stations and have gone on record to conduct maximum number of training batches being run simultaneously at any time in the past. We have plans to undertake more JET(ATC) courses for the new recruits from November 2006 onwards by working extra hours on each working days. I have been a keen player of Cricket, Foot ball, Basket ball, Volley ball, Table tennis, Badminton, Carrom, Chess during my college days and like watching and playing these games as and when possible even nowadays. I was bestowed the confidence of my colleagues when holding important portfolio in the ATC Guild as Western Regional President/Secretary and All India President during the period spread over 15 years.
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Civil Aviation Training
College, India, established in early 1950s by the Civil Aviation Dept. of
the Govt. of India, currently owned and managed by the Airports Authority of
India, is the only institute in the country to train the professionals in
Air Traffic Control and maintenance of navigational equipments and
communication systems. All the professionals engaged in civil Air traffic
Control in India are trained in specialist courses also in this institute.
The institute is headed by an AAI officer
of the rank of Executive Director as Principal and has two General Managers
as Chief Instructors and faculty heads; one each for Air Traffic Management
(ATM) and for Communication, Navigation, and Surveillance (CNS).
officials
are currently undergoing training in 11 different courses.
strict
vegetarian. Even in vegetarian food, I have some inhibitions from
childhood – like I am averse to milk and milk products. Perhaps I
miss a lot."
city
of Varanasi in a teacher's family. I studied in DAV College, Varanasi up
to matriculation. I had had the privilege of being monitor of the class
and scored the highest marks consistently which eventually attaining the
highest marks in High School examination amongst the students of my
school, conducted by UP Board. Thereafter, I was admitted to
Pre-University in Banaras Hindu University (BHU) where I continued till my
Masters degree in 1971 in Physics with specialisation in Electronics and
Radio physics attaining first devision throughout. I had been a recepient
of merit scholarship from UP govt until my M.Sc. degree.Thereafter, as a
CSIR Fellow, I pursued research work in "Study of metallic ions in the
ionosphere" from 1971 to 1973 and published four papers in "Annals De Geo
physique" of France. Unfortunately, I could not complete my PhD as I opted
to join ATC profession as Asst. Aerodrome Officer after being selected
through UPSC in 1971 batch.