NEW DELHI: India’s air visitors controllers (ATCO) have blamed a brand new ranking system for including to their work burden which has led to 2 circumstances of plane getting dangerously shut at Delhi and Ahmedabad airports ever because the new system was applied. The ATC Guild India on Wednesday (Nov 1) wrote to the aviation ministry, Airports Authority of India (AAI) and Directorate Normal of Civil Aviation (DGCA) in opposition to the “implementation of space management (surveillance and procedural) concurrent ranking system with out conducting any security evaluation.”
Whereas AAI didn’t touch upon this challenge, DGCA sources say the problem raised by the ATC Guild is being examined.
The Guild says the brand new system “has already borne us two airprox/ breach of separation incidents at IGI Delhi and Ahmedabad airports inside few days of implementation of concurrent system, and the rely will go on if well timed motion isn’t taken.”
Guild basic secretary Alok Yadav fears ATCOs “will certainly be made scapegoats and lose their hard-earned scores together with psychological harassment (whereas the) root trigger is implementation of concurrent space management ranking system which hampers the fundamental strategy of a surveillance controller of taking away his/her focus from his radar scope by forcing him/her to imagine the accountability of space (procedural) controller and supply clearances to discipline stations, guarantee time separations on exit factors verify, legitimate authorisations of aircrafts to enter in Indian airspace and, notify and take applicable actions throughout precedence, emergency radio communication failure.”
“The visitors density at main space management sectors is already excessive and past capability of two controllers controlling aircrafts in surveillance and procedural mode collectively bearing their capabilities and duties individually to enrich one another and guarantee secure provision of air visitors companies. Whereas, in new concurrent system the identical visitors density is loaded over a single controller to offer all of the capabilities of a surveillance and procedural management with out declaration of discount in sector capability,” Yadav’s letter provides.
The Guild has requested authorities to implement the brand new system in a phase-wise method “as per aviation requirements of change administration with acceptable limits of hazards and correct mitigation measures to cut back the security threat beneath secure limits.”
ATCOs have sought changing the “present setup of ACC (S) and ACC (P) controllers with two ACC (S&P) concurrent rated controllers with one being answerable for surveillance companies and different being answerable for procedural management companies throughout their watch takeover of their respective positions” at main space management centres with excessive visitors density.
Whereas AAI didn’t touch upon this challenge, DGCA sources say the problem raised by the ATC Guild is being examined.
The Guild says the brand new system “has already borne us two airprox/ breach of separation incidents at IGI Delhi and Ahmedabad airports inside few days of implementation of concurrent system, and the rely will go on if well timed motion isn’t taken.”
Guild basic secretary Alok Yadav fears ATCOs “will certainly be made scapegoats and lose their hard-earned scores together with psychological harassment (whereas the) root trigger is implementation of concurrent space management ranking system which hampers the fundamental strategy of a surveillance controller of taking away his/her focus from his radar scope by forcing him/her to imagine the accountability of space (procedural) controller and supply clearances to discipline stations, guarantee time separations on exit factors verify, legitimate authorisations of aircrafts to enter in Indian airspace and, notify and take applicable actions throughout precedence, emergency radio communication failure.”
“The visitors density at main space management sectors is already excessive and past capability of two controllers controlling aircrafts in surveillance and procedural mode collectively bearing their capabilities and duties individually to enrich one another and guarantee secure provision of air visitors companies. Whereas, in new concurrent system the identical visitors density is loaded over a single controller to offer all of the capabilities of a surveillance and procedural management with out declaration of discount in sector capability,” Yadav’s letter provides.
The Guild has requested authorities to implement the brand new system in a phase-wise method “as per aviation requirements of change administration with acceptable limits of hazards and correct mitigation measures to cut back the security threat beneath secure limits.”
ATCOs have sought changing the “present setup of ACC (S) and ACC (P) controllers with two ACC (S&P) concurrent rated controllers with one being answerable for surveillance companies and different being answerable for procedural management companies throughout their watch takeover of their respective positions” at main space management centres with excessive visitors density.
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