Flights over Moscow

The operational test Commission for the new automated system for organizing the air traffic over Moscow (ACVD AC) recognized it “suitable and ready for regular operation”, the act was approved by the General Director of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise “State Corporation for the ORVD” Igor Moiseenko. This is written by Kommersant with reference to its sources.

The system, the publication writes, was evaluated by "a variety of parameters", including "an assessment of the reliability of functioning." As a result, the ACVD “Testing” withstood, their results are “recognized as positive”.

The Moscow air zone is the most loaded in Russia, in the year it conducts air navigation for 800 thousand aircraft, the airports perform about 2 thousand runways (VPO) per day: in Sheremetyevo-up to 50 VPO-35 VPO at an hour, in Domodedovo-55 VPO at an hour. At the first time, it is planned to carry out 15-20 VPO at the Zhukovsky airport per day.

Take off from Vnukovo Airport photo Moscow / Moscow-Live

Now the main system that controls the air traffic over Moscow remains the Swedish Terkas, launched immediately after the Olympics, in 1981. These are operating synchronously computer complexes with automatic reservation. Formally, the resource of the system was exhausted 20 years ago, in 1996, but they were in no hurry to abandon it. According to Kommersant, in 2015-2016 there were four complete failure of the system, the load fell on the reserve system installed in 2008.

The decision on the construction of the new flight management center for the Moscow enlarged center of the Unified System of the ORVD was adopted by the government in 2007, the General Contractor in 2009 was selected by the Almaz-Antey concern, and in 2013 the construction of the Central Bank was completed in Vnukovo. The entry of TsUP was planned for November 2013, but the deadline was repeatedly postponed. Now it is expected that the new Tsup, which can provide flights, including state aviation, will begin to really control the movement in March 2017. After the adaptation of dispatchers, a new scheme for the movement of aircraft over Moscow will be introduced to work, for this in the fall of 2017, airspace eye will undergo. Thanks to this, the throughput of the Moscow Center can be increased one and a half times.

At the same time, it became known yesterday that the Ministry of Transport resumed negotiations with the airports of the Moscow Aviation Node (MAU) - Vnukovo, Domodedovo and Sheremetyevo - on the transfer to the concession of airfields. Thiswas reported by the newspaper Vedomosti. The meeting on this subject at the head of the Ministry of Transport Maxim Sokolov took place on December 16, the discussion began at the initiative of the ministry.

Meeting of the Board of the Ministry of Transport of the RFMintrans.ru

As part of the concession, airports themselves must contain airfields that now belong to the state. At the same time, the state does not undertake obligations to build roads and railways to improve the transport accessibility of airports. The concession fee will be 1 ruble per year, while airports will stop paying rent, the cost of maintaining airfields is proposed to pay off by increasing the training camp.

According to the sources of the publication, representatives of Domodedovo said at the meeting that this approach puts them in unequal competitive conditions. The meeting participants appreciated the needs of investments for the next 10 years. Domodedovo will require 63.4 billion rubles, while Sheremetyevo - 17.9 billion rubles, and Vnukovo - 6.7 billion rubles. Domodedovo appreciated its needs much higher due to the need to build a third runway.