ATC in Haiti

[magus69]

A few hours after the earthquake in Haiti, I read that a special US Air Traffic team had arrived at the crippled Port au Prince airport and had set up a manual ATC system. They eventually delivered over a 100+ flights a day to this strip which normally sees maybe 3-6 movements a day to an apron that, if you use Google Earth, looks as if it could hold perhaps 6-8 decent sized aircraft.

I heard that all this was done 24/7 with small hand equipment from the grass in front of the airport.

Has anyone any knowledge of this quite amazing feat?

[VP8]

http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/888/030315f1644l931pn8.jpg


The Brits do exactly the same and call it Tac Air Traffic :ok:


http://www.operations.mod.uk/fingal/fimages/bagram_tcw.jpg

[con-pilot]

Also the FAA has a completely self-contained mobile ATC control tower. I believed it was placed into service at Port-au-Prince three days after the earthquake.

[magus69]

Cool. Thanks for the pics and info.