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Angkasa Pura Airports Together With KNKT and UNDIP Developed Water Level Monitoring Application on Runway

03 Nov 2017

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SEMARANG - To further improve the safety and security of aviation, Angkasa Pura Airports undertakes innovation based on information technology through the development of water level gauge applications on runway surface. In developing this application, Angkasa Pura Airports cooperates with the National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT) and Diponegoro University (Undip) of Semarang marked by the signing of a memorandum of understanding at Semarang Crowne Hotel on Thursday (3/11/2017).

"In an effort to provide accurate, fast, automated, and real time information related to runway conditions, particularly when it rains to air traffic control (ATC) and pilots, a monitoring equipment system is required that can monitor the condition of the elevation levels of standing water runway surface in real time and can provide security signals for takeoff and landing aircraft," explained by Director of Angkasa Pura Airports Danang S. Baskoro.

Danang S. Baskoro said Angkasa Pura Airports with KNKT and Undip is committed to design and build a system of puddle water monitoring equipment on the runway at Semarang Ahmad Yani Airport as an effort to improve flight safety and security.

The development of monitoring applications is related to the activity of inspecting the presence of water on the runway, including during the rain, as part of maintenance activities. More specifically, the examination of the existence of this water aims to obtain accurate information in the planning and implementation of maintenance activities required in the future. Meanwhile, maintenance activities or airway maintenance programs (runway, taxiway, and apron) shall be the obligations of airport operators which are regulated in the DGCA Regulation No. 94 of 2015.

For information, these maintenance activities include routine inspections, pavement performance testing, damage repair, rehabilitation, and reporting to regulators. The inspection aims to examine the condition of the pavement surface, especially in the area of ​​movement (movement area) to be feasible and safe to use for flight operations. Inspection activities include the examination of foreign harmful materials (FOD), damage checks of pavement structures, including inspection of the presence of water on the runway.

Examination of the presence of water on the runway is one of the important things that need to be done to maintain the safety and security of aviation. Runways that are inundated during the rain have a hydroplaning effect, i.e. the condition at which the landing, the aircraft wheels floating on the surface of the water causing the aircraft brake to not work effectively and unable to reduce the speed of the aircraft and then can cause the aircraft to lose control, can cause the plane out of the runway body. [DR / AD]

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