Vietnam opens $35mn air traffic control center in capital city
Wednesday, January 14, 2015, 18:32 GMT+7
The Vietnam Air Traffic Management Corporation (VATM) on Tuesday put the Hanoi Air Traffic Control Center (Hanoi ATCC), into operation after nearly three years of construction at a cost of VND750 billion (US$35 million).
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The center, which was built with the VATM capital, is located on Nguyen Son Street in Long Bien District and has a gross floor area of nearly 20,600 m².
The new facility, which replaces the current Hanoi ATCC, has 39 workstations and eight terminal points, which are capable of handling 1,000 planes at a time and 20,000 flight plans with a range of 3,792 km, said Hoang Thanh, chairman of the Board of Members of the VATM.
The new Hanoi ATCC is equipped with an automated air management system, among the most advanced of its kind in Southeast Asia, Thanh said.
The new control center is considered the most sophisticated in Vietnam now, according to news website VnExpress.
The center will ensure safety for civil flights in particular and airline activities in general, including low-range flights in the Hanoi flight information region (FIR), according to news website Dan Tri.
It also serves as a standby facility to replace the Ho Chi Minh Area Control Center (ACC) to take over the air traffic operation in Vietnam’s FIR whenever an unusual incident occurs, Dan Tri said.
The center controls take-off and landing by using a radar system and the Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast.
Vietnam is among the first countries in the Southeast Asian region to utilize such a control system, the VATM said. Most staffers at the center are young and have been trained professionally. They can speak many foreign languages fluently.
“With its advanced equipment and resources supplied by well known manufacturers in the world, the new Hanoi ATCC is one of the leading air traffic control centers in the region,” VnExpress quoted Thanh, the VATM chairman, as saying.
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