NATIONAL SAR COORDINATION COMMITTEE MEETING August 16 1 PAKISTAN - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

NATIONAL SAR COORDINATION COMMITTEE MEETING August 16 1

PAKISTAN CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY PLAN ON AFGHANISTAN ATS CONTINGENCY

29 August, 2016

SEQUENCE

• Introduction
• ICAO APAC office initiatives
• Contingency in Afghanistan airspace

a) Partial Contingency – Airspace available with no ATS b) Complete Contingency Afghanistan airspace not available

• Pakistan’s Proposals – 03 Different Options

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Introduction

• Transition of Air Navigation Services (ANS from the military

to Afghan civil authorities);

• Afghanistan no / limited capability for the provision of ATS

(Air Traffic Control Officers –ATCOs competency);

• Afghan ATS infrastructure limitations;
• Disruption of ANS in Kabul FIR - uncontrolled airspace;
• ICAO APAC Office, IATA, world aviation community’ concerns

for flight safety;

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ICAO APAC OFFICE INITIATIVES

• ICAO APAC office held three meetings of the Ad Hoc

Afghanistan Contingency Group (AHACG) sine late 2014;

• A special side line meeting alongwith Air Traffic

Management Sub-Group/4 (ATM/SG/4) meeting held in Bangkok from 4-8 July, 2016;

• Preparation of a contingency plan to maintain air traffic

flows with no or minimum impact;

• A special coordination meeting of AHACG on 25th August,

2016 to finalize the Afghanistan contingency plan;

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SCENARIO - 1

• Partial contingency services – Airspace available with no ATS;

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SCENARIO - 1

• Partial

contingency services – Airspace available with no ATS;

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PAKISTAN’S PROPOSAL – OPTION -1

AFGHANISTAN AIRSPACE AVAILABLE – NO ATS

• During disruption in the provision of ATS – Afghanistan upper

airspace (FL 310 and above) may be made available;

• Crossing / converging ATS routes in upper airspace (at or

above FL310) within Kabul FIR may be closed;

• The extension of BOBCAT timings to 24 hours as discussed

during first meeting of AHACG is supported;

• Application of 10 minutes longitudinal separation at regional

level for traffic overflying Afghanistan airspace at the same flight levels .

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SCENARIO - 1

• The

routes segments

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ATS Route N636 (PAROD- SERKA) and M875 (TAPIS- SITAX) may be closed during availability

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P628 and L509 respectively to avoid convergence.

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PAKISTAN’S PROPOSAL – OPTION -1

• Pakistan will ensure

longitudinal separation of 10 minutes at TCPs with application of Mach number technique;

• Minimum longitudinal

separation shall continue to exist till the next TCP between Afghanistan and Iran / Turkmenistan / and Tajikistan;

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PAKISTAN’S PROPOSAL – OPTION -1

• Iran, Turkmenistan

and Tajikistan shall also apply the same procedure for east bound traffic to ensure 10 minutes longitudinal separation

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the TCPs between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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PAKISTAN’S PROPOSAL – OPTION -1

• FL330 shall be kept vacant as per existing restriction;
• Pakistan may also consider feeding westbound traffic via SERKA to

P628; Note: Pakistan has an efficient CNS infrastructure and further augmentation is under process.

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PAKISTAN’S PROPOSAL – OPTION 2

• Another
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with parallel unidirectional routing scheme in Afghanistan FIR is proposed as under to facilitate emergency climb / descend if so required;

• EAST BOUND ROUTES
• L750 (RANAH - Afghanistan)
• ROSIE (Pakistan).
• M875

(AMDAR (Afghanistan) – SITAX (Pakistan).

• L333 (SOKEM (Afghanistan)

– SERKA (Pakistan).

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PAKISTAN’S PROPOSAL – OPTION 2

• WEST ST BOUND

ROUTES

• L509 (ASARI (India)–

LAJAK (Pakistan) – TAPIS – P173 to DAVET) Afghanistan).

• N644 (JHANG – PAVLO

(Pakistan) – (LEMOD (Afghanistan)

• P628 (VIKIT – ASLUM

(Pakistan) – CHARN (Afghanistan);

NOTE: All other operating condition as specified in Option-1 shall apply.

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PAKISTAN’S PROPOSAL – SCENARIO 1

RECOMMENDATION

• Pakistan fully supports operation through Afghanistan

airspace based on application of Mach Number technique and 10 minutes longitudinal separation.

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SCENARIO - 2

• Closure of

airspace Avoidance of Kabul FIR;

• Flight operation

via South of Afghanistan (through Iran, Pakistan to India);

• Organized Track

System (OTS) proposed by Iran is supported.

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PAKISTAN IRAN

AFGHANISTAN

PAKISTAN’S PROPOSAL – OPTION 3

CIRCUMNAVIGATING SOUTH OF AFGHANISTAN AIRSPACE THROUGH IRAN AND PAKISTAN

• Three ATS route L124 (KEBUD), G665 (ASVIB) and G452 (DERBO) are already in operation

and will accommodate most of diverted traffic;

• Additionally a new contingency bi-directional ATS route is proposed from DANOV (Iran) –

new TCP AKRAL (284902N 0613755E)- LAKAT (270632N 0650125E Intersection point at G214) – ADEBA – NH – TASOP / RAMSA – Pratapgarh (India);

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PAKISTAN IRAN

AFGHANISTAN

TRAFFIC ORIENTATION SCHEME

• Iran proposed Royal Road OTS and restricted operation at specific

flight levels;

• Pakistan supports Iranian Royal OTS scheme;
• Accordingly air traffic circumnavigating south of Afghanistan

Airspace through Iran, Pakistan and India shall operate at the flight levels as specified below;

• Eastbound traffic at FLs 310,350 & L370;
• Westbound traffic at FLs 300,340 & 360;
• Iran shall not hand over traffic to Karachi at METBI / EGRON on

OTS flight levels.

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TRAFFIC ORIENTATION SCHEME

Eastbound TFC entering Karachi FIR (at OTS FLs) via;

• DERBO (route G452) - Exit via

TIGER (Delhi FIR);

• DANOV (Iran) – AKRAL (New

ATS route in Pakistan) to LAKAT- Nawabshah (route B210) - Exit via TASOP (route A325) – to Pratapgarh;

• KEBUD (route-L124) to

PANGJUR (route G210) – Karachi – Exit via TELEM (Mumbai FIR India); OR

• KEBUD (route-L124) to

PANGJUR (route M636) – Karachi – Exit via SAPNA (Mumbai FIR India);

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PAKISTAN IRAN

AFGHANISTAN

TRAFFIC ORIENTATION SCHEME

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Westbound TFC entering Karachi FIR (at OTS FLs) via;

• TIGER (route G452) - Exit

via DERBO (Tehran FIR);

• PRATAPGARH (route A325)

– TASOP (route B210) – Nawabshah – LAKAT (New ATS route in Pakistan) - Exit via AKRAL to DANOV (Iran);

• PARTY (route G208) and

SAPNA ( M638) – Karachi – PANGJUR -(route G208 / L124) - Exit via KEBUD (Iran);

• KABIM (route P518) –

PANGJUR -(route G208 / L124) - Exit via KEBUD (Iran);

PBN ROUTE SPECIFICATIONS IN PAKISTAN

• Initially RNAV 5 navigation specification is envisaged for;
• Routes G452, New proposed route and G214 with existing

50NM longitudinal separation;

• Non-compliant aircraft will be accommodated at or below

FL290;

• Higher flight levels may be available subject to coordination

with ATC (in surveillance environment);

• FL410/430 will be made available in Karachi FIR to enhance

airspace capacity.

• NOTE: Pakistan has planned RNP 2 navigation specification for

en-route phase of flight.

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CIRCUMNAVIGATING AFGHANISTAN VIA NORTH

• Another possible option is to circumnavigate Afghanistan airspace

from north through Dushanbe FIR to Lahore FIR as per following;

• ATS route L509 SAMAR (India) – INDEK-JABAR- PESHAWAR / P500 to

PADDY – FIRUZ (DOSHANBE FIR) during 1500UTC to 2400UTC at the flight levels;

• From 1500UTC – 1900UTC at FL300 / UNL; and
• From 1900UTC - 2400UTC at FL280 / UNL.
• Beyond the availability of ATS route L509 (i.e. 1500 to 2400UTC), the
• perators may like to use ATS route A466 (SAMAR – India / Pakistan

TCP) to Lahore - Jhang - D.I.Khan and P500 to ADINA – Peshawar – PADDY to FIRUZ (DUSHANBE) as given in the map below;

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CIRCUMNAVIGATING AFGHANISTAN VIA NORTH

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ACTION BY PAKISTAN

• A new bi-directional ATS route established to support traffic flows

ensuring flight safety;

• Implementation of traffic orientation scheme to segregate traffic

minimizing conflictions;

• Fourth ATC Sector in Karachi ACC is already operational during night. It

can be made operational at any time in case of contingency in Afghanistan airspace;

• Air Traffic Controllers training has already been completed;
• Safety assessment (for all three options) has also been completed;
• Flight Levels 410 / 430 are being made available during contingency;
• Pakistan is ready to support operation in case of Afghan contingency as

and when situation so arise.

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PAKISTAN PROPOSAL - SCENARIO 2

RECOMMENDATIONS

• Pakistan

supports Iran and Indian proposals for circumnavigating Air Traffic through South of Afghanistan;

• Proposed Traffic Orientation Scheme may be implemented in

India, Pakistan and Iran;

• Circumnavigating Afghanistan airspace via Lahore – Dushanbe

FIRs (ATS Route P500) may also be considered.

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