26 février 2009
Premières conséquences visibles de la crise sur l'ATC
Les "petits" prestataires sont bien sûr les premiers à souffrir et à devoir réagir de façon draconienne. Ici LVNL, le prestataire néerlandais va se lancer dans un plan de réduction des coûts pour le moins sévère !
C'est probablement l'occasion d'une réflexion approfondie pour ceux qui chez nous pensent qu'il suffit s'augmenter les redevances ...
"The strongly decreasing number of flights to and from Schiphol Airport,
Amsterdam and in the airspace of the Netherlands, force Air Traffic
Control the Netherlands to drastically reduce costs. Among the measures
to be taken will be a 10% decrease in the number of staff before the
end of the year 2010.
This means 100 full-time jobs less and ATCN cannot rule out enforced resignations.
In close consultation with the Ministry of Transport and Public Works,
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and KLM a considerable number of measures
will be decided on. These must have been laid down by the end of May 2009. ATCN’s focus will remain on its core business: a safe and efficient air traffic handling.
ATCN has already taken a number of cost reduction measures. The
contracts of all its temporary workers have been terminated, there is a
halt on vacancies and all external activities are assessed on the basis of their necessity and costs.
The ATCN works council and relevant labour unions have been informed.
"
24 février 2009
Longue vie à Airwines ...
Une nouvelle compagnie adaptée à l'actualité ... bien joué NiCo !
19 février 2009
IRMA à Monaco !
Certains d'entre nous ne vont pas y croire ! Eh bien si, c'est mission impossible d'obtenir une visualisation IRMA pour les terrains VFR de la région parisienne qui font 80.000 mouvements par an mais c'est fait à Monaco et ses 17500 mouvements d'hélicos !
Le carnet d'heures de contrôle électronique
Sans commentaire, bon d'un autre coté ils n'en sont plus au strip papier et ils ont le tri couleur !
On 1 February 2009, DFS put an electronic position log system into
operation for air traffic controllers in the Karlsruhe control centre.
This new system has been successfully installed in all four German
control centres of DFS.
The position log system (PoLo) records the times that air traffic
controllers are responsible for working at a certain working position.
It replaces the previous paper-based logging of working positions.
Throughout Germany, some 1,750 employees in the control centres of
Munich, Bremen, Langen, and Karlsruhe are now working with the new
system. Not only is it possible to record the staffing of working
positions more precisely, but also more easily. It facilitates a secure
audit trail.
“By using their company identity cards, air traffic controllers allow
the system to document when they assume responsibility for a certain
airspace”, says Frank Brenner, Director Centre of DFS. Before employees
start working, the PoLo system checks whether they have the necessary
qualifications. Another feature of the system is that it facilitates
the merging and division of airspaces directly at the working position.
The PoLo system is composed of a central control computer and recording
equipment integrated in the controller working positions. Engineers at
DFS developed this special system software.
16 février 2009
KBUF : analyses du FDR
L’analyse des enregistreurs a permis une description des dernieres évolution avant le crash. 26s avant l’impact les alarmes de décrochage, se sont déclenchées, désengageant le pilote automatique qui était resté enclanché malgré le givrage. L’appareil a immédiatement subi un tangage sévère, de 31° vers le haut puis 45° vers le bas, ainsi qu’un important roulis, de 46° vers la gauche puis 105° vers la droite. Il aurait également perdu 800ft en cinq secondes. Il s’est écrasé à plat et, pour une raison indéterminée, dos à l’aéroport.
14 février 2009
Crash d'un Dash-8 à KBUF ... transcript released
Ca devient une habitude aux USA, les transcriptions des échanges radio entre l'ATC et le bord sont rendu public avec une vitesse stupéfiante en Europe.
Et à partir de 10:15:10 la transcription approximative (index 920 sur le lecteur ci-dessus):
10:15:10 - Colgan 3407. Three miles from Klump. Turn left heading 260 Maintain 2,300 until established localizer Cleared ILS approach Runway 23.
10:15:17 - Colgan 3407 acknowledges.
10:15:25 - ? 1998 turn right heading 140
10:15:28 - right 140,1998
10:15:44 - good evening North West 1130, 148 for 11, 11.000 at Dunkerk with S.
10:15:51 - Approach North West 1130 good evening ??? 2980 proceed final ILS approach for runway 23
10:15:58 - 2980, 23 North West 1130
10:16:02 - Colgan 3407 contact tower 120.5. Have a good night.
10:16:07 - 3407.
10:16:11 - Fedex 137 Heavy contact Cleveland center 125.2. have a good evening.
10:16:14 - Cleveland on 125.2, fedex 137 heavy.everyone.
10:16:20 - ??? 3512 descent and maintain 7000
10:17:04 - Colgan 3407. Approach.
10:17:11 - Delta 1998 ... localiser for sequencing
10:17:15- Delta 1998 Thank you
10:17:20 - Colgan 3407. Buffalo.
10:17:25 - Colgan 3407. Approach.
10:17:33 - Delta 1998 look out your right side about five miles for a Dash-8. It should be about 2,300. Do you see anything there?
10:17:41 - Negative. Delta 1998. Wherre just in the bottoms and nothing on the TCAS.
10:17:50 - Colgan 3407. Buffalo....
10:18:02 - ?? 920 ... disregard contact Approach
10:18:04 - Approach
10:18:15 - Buffalo, ??920 is 243 to 5000, 540 the heading.
10:18:25 - ??920, ... radar contact
10:18:48 - Buffalo, 920 ...
10:18:50 - ... radar contact, maintain 5000.
10:18:51 - maintain 5000, we'd like to request a continuous climb up for us.
10:19:00 - 920, continue climb, climb and maintain 8000.
10:19:04 - up 8000, we'd like to put 10000 as a final level.
10:19:08 - ??9200, climb and maintain 10000.
10:19:10 - 10000, 920 thanks.
10:19:13 - Delta 1998, turn left, left heading 360.
10:19:16 - left 360, delta 1998, you don't want us to climb at all ?
10:19:20 - .... you,sir.
10:19:30 - Delta 1998, just maintain 2300.
10:19:33 - Delta 1998, affirmative. Delta 1998, are you VFR condition here ?
10:19:36 - Negative we're IMC.
10:19:38 - Roger.
10:19:40 - Southern 254, turn left heading 050.
10:19:42 - left 050, for southern 254.
10:19:45 - Northwest 1130, turn left heading 070 descend and maintain 9000.
10:19:53 - 070, 11, 11000 for 9000, Northwest 1130.
10:20:11 - Colgan 3407. Buffalo tower. How do you hear?...
10:20:17 - .... you have frequency ?
10:20:21 - 205 contact approcach on, well just stay with me sir ...approach shortly
10:20:28 - Ground communication, you need to talk to somebody at least five miles northeast. Possibly Clarence. That area right in there. Akron area. Either state police or sheriff's department. You need to find out if anything is on the ground. This aircraft was five miles out and all of a sudden we have no response from that aircraft.
10:20:46 - All I can tell you is that an aircraft (was) over the marker and we're not talking to them now.
10:21:03 - Delta 1998. You got any icing where you're at?
10:21:06 - We picked it up on the way down, but I don't think we're building any more here. But about 6,500 down to about 3,500 maybe....
10:21:08 - Ok, thank you sir.
10:21:20 - Delta 1998, it's gonna be a delay, i'm gonna bring you back around.Expect a hold over Klump.
10:21:26 - All right, expect a hold over Klump, Delta 1998.
10:21:33 - Delta 1998, climb and maintain 4000. Turn left heading 270.
10:21:37 - climb 4000, left turn heading 270, Delta1998.
10:21:46 -Jet Blue 5 I'll have to get right back to you, sir. Apparently we have an emergency and I'll get back to you as soon as I can....
10:22:10 - Delta 1998, turn left heading 260, intercept the localizer in ... you can maintain your present altitude, just maintain 3000 till you'r established for now, have you approach ... a little closer.
10:22:19 - All right maintain 3000, joinning ILS runway 23 Delta 1998.
10:22:51 - cactus 1452, wer'e bringging you back around here shorlty, to the airport.
10:22:59 - Ok we're picking up ... ???? for one hour.
10:23:06 - Northwest 1130, turn left heading 050 ... 1130.
10:23:33 - Delta 1998, you can descent at your discretion maintain 2300.
10:23:35 - own discretion 2300, delta 1998.
10:23:52 - cactus 1452, turn right heading 140.
10:23:54 - was this for cactus 1452 ?
10:23:57 - All aircraft this frequency: We did have a Dash-8 over the marker that didn't make the airport. He appears to be about five miles away from the airport. Delta 1998, I'm gonna bring you in on the approach, if you could give me a PiRep when you get to 2300, and ah, if you have any problem with the localizer, anything let me know, however we're showing all in the green here.
10:24:23 - Wilco.
10:24:27 - cactus 1452; turn right heading 160 descent and miantain 2300.
10:24:29 - descent to 2.3, cactus 1452.
10:24:39 - ?? 405 contact ... approach 133.4
10:24:41 - 133.4 ?? 405 good night.
10:24:47 - Delta 1998 6 miles from Lump, maintain 2300 established on the localizer cleared ILS Approach Runway 23
10:24:58 - ILS 23 and we're still in the IMC here, Delta 1998.
10:25:00 - You got any kind of icing or anything there?
10:25:05 - It doesn't appear to be building. We got about a half inch, well, about a quarter inch on us from the descent that has remained with us all the time. ...
10:25:15 - Thank you, Cactus 1452, turn right heading 220, intercept the localizer.
10:25:20 - Intercept the loc for cactus 1452 and we've been picking up rime ice here for the last, oh, 10 minutes.
10:25:25 - OK Standby on the rime ice report. Southen 2512 descent and maintain 4000.
10:25:35 - As soon as you can sir ...
10:25:38 - Euh, Who was that?
10:25:42 - 52 sir. We've been getting ice ever since 20 miles south of the airport.
10:25:46 - Cactus 1452. OK. If you could, let me know when you get out of the icing. Aircraft coming up from the south wasn't reporting that earlier....
10:25:57 - Buffalo , ask direct Aligating for 920.
10:26:02 - 920, proceed ditrect to Alligating ?? , sir
10:26:05 - Direct Alligating , 920 thanks.
10:26:22 - Southern 3512, turn right heading 220, intercept the localizer.
10:26:24 - right heading 220, intreccept the localizer for Southern 2512.
10:26:28 - Delta 1998, if you could just disregard the ?? contact tower on 120.5 just let them know if you have some variation on the localizer anything.
10:26:33 - 120.5 delta 1998, thanks.
10:26:43 - North west 1130,descend and maintain 7000.
10:26:46 - leaving 9000 for 7000, Northwest 1130.
10:26:50 - Cactus 1452, 7 miles from Klump, maintain 2300 till established, clear ILS approach runway 23
10:27:00 - 2300 till establish clear ILS runway 23, cactus 1452. And the ice is starting to come off the windscreen now.
10:27:08 - Any kind of information we could get we'd appreciate.
10:27:11 - So right now at 2,300 it seems pretty clear for you.
10:27:17 - The ice is starting to dissipate.
10:27:19 - Thank you.
10:27:21 - Southern 3512. If you're picking up any ice you should be getting out of it shortly. descend and maintain 2,300
10:27:30 - And the wind around please ? wind is 260 at 14.
10:28:05 - Cactus 1452. Thanks for your help. I appreciate it. Contact tower 120.5
10:28:11 - Fine for Cactus. Did you find Colgan?
10:28:15 - Unfortunately. They said he went down about right over the marker Klump....
10:28:24 - Northwest 1130, turn left headin 350.
10:28:28 - 350, Northwest 1130.
10:28:34 - Southern 2512, 4 miles from Klump, maintain 2300 until established on the localiser clear ILS runway 23.
10:28:40 - ILS 23 for Southern 2512.
10:28:50 - Colgan say again ????
10:28:57 - ???
10:29:00 - runway ????,delta 1998
10:29:18 - Tower. Cactus 1452 is coming up on the Klump. And, uh, we saw the ground. You guys know what's going on?
10:29:24 - Cactus 1452. Buffalo tower. Winds at 2-6-0 at 1-4 runway 23 clear to land. Yes sir, we are aware.
13 février 2009
Fermeture de PG et PO pour cause de brise ...
La décision de fermeture totale des aéroports parisiens en début de semaine suscite quelques réactions ...
Voir notamment cet article de Gil Roy ...
Il faut reconnaitre que la méthode est un peu radicale et que cette situation aurait pu être gérée de façon plus souple avec des mesures de régulation en temps réel, d'autant qu'au final on s'est retrouvé avec des conditions permettant tout à fait une exploitation quasi normale des aéroports.
Premiere collision en vol spatiale
Puisqu'on s'ennuie ferme dans les salle de contrôle en ce moment, on pourrait peut être s'occuper de piloter les drones et de faire du Space Traffic Control ?
Deux satellites de télécommunications, l’un américain et l’autre russe, sont entrés en collision à 800km d’altitude au-dessus de la Sibérie le 9 février, c'est le premier évènement de cette nature.Les deux satellites ont été détruits. On s'est inquiété un moment que les débris ne viennent percuter la station spatiale internationale car son orbite est beaucoup plus basse (environ 400km d’altitude).
08 février 2009
Hudson Crash ... game !
Merci Bruno pour ce petit moment de détente ... moi j'ai fait 62500 :-) ... c'est ici : Hudson Crash Game
Flying Belgian Guy
Bruno MISONNE est belge et visiblement il aime bien les avions ... Compositeur, il produit de la musique "aéronautique". Il intègre dans sa musique des sons d'avions mais aussi du live traffic entre pilotes et contrôleurs...
