HK’s Air Traffic Control Glitches Intensifying

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    HK’s Air Traffic Control Glitches Intensifying

    https://www.factwire.org/single-post...aster-in-India

    Some workstations for Hong Kong’s glitch-prone air traffic management system (ATMS) have required additional reboots in about 20 occasions - most during peak hours - since April...

    ...reboot process normally takes five to 15 minutes, causing major disruption to day-to-day operations.
    India’s Air Traffic Controllers’ Guild (ATC Guild) complained to the Airports Authority of India and the Director General of Civil Aviation about the sluggishness of AT3 workstations (same ones used in HK)...

    The trade union further warned that such sluggishness is ‘bound to lead to major incident’ if the authority continues to ignore repeated requests for system improvements like it did in 1996, when insufficient radar facilities partly resulted in the deadliest mid-air collision in history, killing 349 people on board.
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    HK or India or globally?

    Edit - I Read the article, seems like they are using the same system, I suspect they aren't the only two.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Trebor:
    I suspect they aren't the only two.
    Dubai (and probably many more) using Raytheon’s AutoTrac III:

    https://www.internationalairportrevi...ogy-for-dubai/