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To plant and park one passenger plane, 4 air traffic controllers are required at once! This was found out by the patrol PR Ksenia Zolotareva after she visited the Radio Exchange of the Don Airport. To get there and see who and how ensures the safety of flights over Rostov is a rarity. Our correspondent on the occasion of the International Airpower Day was allowed into the Holy of Holy Airport.

The sky over Russia is regulated around the clock by the state corporation for the organization of air traffic. Passenger aircraft is accompanied by the Rostov-on-Don airport service over Rostov. They work in three shifts. Each starts with a briefing. On it, dispatchers receive flights of flights and the weather about the weather. During the day, weather carriers are usually adjusted, including through crews. The first -class manager Vladislav Rudnev explained that information about the same turbulence can only be obtained from the aircraft.

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The rest of the information in excess is displayed on the screens of rather bulky terminals, behind which dispatchers are sitting. All aircraft over Rostov and its environs are displayed on the locator. From already landing to those who are at an altitude of 12 kilometers. But the direct radio exchange of the airport only with aircraft that lands or take off from Rostov lead to the airport dispatchers. Their jurisdiction is an air cylinder with a diameter of 200 kilometers and five and a half height.

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The approach dispatcher is the first to communicate, by this moment the plane is at an altitude of 5400 meters. As soon as the board decreases to one and a half thousand, the circle manager begins to lead. In order not to gleam screens, experts work in a dark room.

Further, in favorable weather, the ship is transferred to the landing dispatcher. And that, in turn, the steering dispatcher, who will determine the steering wheel and parking lot. These employees are on a tower with a panoramic view of the airfield, a strip and a platform. In bad weather, it is the circle dispatcher that will allocate the waiting area of ​​the waiting. If the crew commander decides to wait for favorable conditions. It is he who makes the decision to take off, landing or care for the reserve airfield, ”said the flight manager Andrei Onokolov.

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Behind the terminal without a break, each dispatcher spends no more than two hours. It is impossible longer - concentration falls and you can make a fatal error. During the peak hours of a premium dispatcher, you can cause more often. In Rostov, the hardest time is until noon and after 6 pm. Every hour, up to 4 aircraft has to be accompanied. Radio exchange has to be conducted in Russian and English. Moreover, not only within the framework of regulated phrases. - said Oleg Afanasyev, deputy head of the Rostov Airport Service for Don

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In addition to terminals with locators, dispatchers at the start and landing have additional equipment - binoculars. An analog optical device is needed to observe the condition of the runway, birds that can become a big problem. And also behind the aircraft, in case the pilot, for example, did not remove or released the chassis.
I will add that the preparation of a first -class civil aviation dispatcher takes at least six years. Everyone starts with steering and only after numerous internships receive the right to regulate movement in the air.