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Careful in BOM, boys and girls
From Aero News Net
Indian ATC Opposes Separation Reduction at BOM
Mon, 28 Dec '09
Controllers Say Infrastructure Must Improve First
CSIA logoControllers for Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (BOM) in Mumbai, India, are voicing opposition to a plan to reduce separation between inbound aircraft from the ICAO standard 5 NM gap to only 3 NM. Airport managers believe they can increase capacity and reduce delays with the change.
BOM was ranked worst airport for on-time arrivals in 2008 by Forbes. The report cited FlightStats.com showing a full 50% of inbound flights were delayed and over half of those late arrivals were delayed by 30 minutes or more. 24.3 million passengers moved through BOM in the last year.
An unnamed controller told The Indian Express “nothing extra can be accommodated” until the airport’s infrastructure has been improved. The runways are shut down for 6 hours weekly for maintenance and repairs while a taxiway is used to land some aircraft.
The paper reported that at least one senior BOM official did agree with ATC "...under the existing circumstances, a reduction in the separation gap between aircraft will only lead to more chaos on ground and increase passenger inconvenience."
Mon, 28 Dec '09
Controllers Say Infrastructure Must Improve First
CSIA logoControllers for Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (BOM) in Mumbai, India, are voicing opposition to a plan to reduce separation between inbound aircraft from the ICAO standard 5 NM gap to only 3 NM. Airport managers believe they can increase capacity and reduce delays with the change.
BOM was ranked worst airport for on-time arrivals in 2008 by Forbes. The report cited FlightStats.com showing a full 50% of inbound flights were delayed and over half of those late arrivals were delayed by 30 minutes or more. 24.3 million passengers moved through BOM in the last year.
An unnamed controller told The Indian Express “nothing extra can be accommodated” until the airport’s infrastructure has been improved. The runways are shut down for 6 hours weekly for maintenance and repairs while a taxiway is used to land some aircraft.
The paper reported that at least one senior BOM official did agree with ATC "...under the existing circumstances, a reduction in the separation gap between aircraft will only lead to more chaos on ground and increase passenger inconvenience."
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a cluster F*** is about to happen
Only marginally better than mainland China, and I think thats because the Indians speak a version of English we can almost understand, rather than the Chinese version that sounds like they have a mouth full of marbles, and that's when they're not speaking barbed wire.
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Unbelievable that they would even consider this.
I suggest some of these airport managers have a stroll into a Mumbai radar room and see how they handle things with the infrastructure they have now.
Maybe they will extend seperation standards
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I suggest some of these airport managers have a stroll into a Mumbai radar room and see how they handle things with the infrastructure they have now.
Maybe they will extend seperation standards
?
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Only in India could they think about reducing separation, while others are looking at increasing it! Of course if nothing happens for a week or two after it has been introduced, then Delhi will no doubt follow! Nightmare
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Indian ATC can't even organise efficient levels of operation over the bay of bengal , let alone a piss up in a brewery let alone 3 mile sep , good god what next ??
chennai chennai chennai oi oi oi !
chennai chennai chennai oi oi oi !
