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Enhancing Aircraft Surveillance
Cruising Heights
|December 2018
The grey area over the Bay of Bengal has shrunk to 69,000 sq km, cutting by half the blind flying time through ADS-B data sharing between India and Myanmar, after an agreement was signed between the nations' aviation authorities.
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Unprecedented growth in air traffic in the Asia/Pacific region in the past few years and the optimistic growth forecast requires an enhancement in safety, efficiency and a proportionate increase in airspace capacity through advance Air Traffic Services (ATS) surveillance coverage in this region. Airports Authority of India had taken many initiatives to enhance air safety, efficiency, increase in airport and airspace capacity through installation of state of art advanced ATS automation systems, improved ATS surveillance coverage with installation of advanced surveillance radars in its entire airspace from Himalayas to High seas. The Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) systems installed at various strategic locations covers the Indian subcontinent’s vast landscape of over 3 mn sq. km and parts of Bay of Bengal, the Arabian Sea and the entire Himalayas, ensures in
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