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Trials soon for chopper corridors at airport

Mumbai: Trials for dedicated helicopter corridors at the Mumbai airport are set to begin next week, a senior airport official has confirmed. The trials, the official hoped, would be followed by a corridor being finally set up, which would ease congestion at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport ....Read more

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error in reporting runway anglesBy: Rajkumar Pant | Monday , 15 Jun '09 8:38:52 AM Reply | Forward The creation of separate corridors for helicopters is as welcome move, which was long overdue. This will reduce congestion over the skies at Mumbai and help increase the number of movements of helicopters from Juhu to Bombay High and back. This will also avoid chances of unsafe incidents like the recent air miss between President's helicopter and Jet Airways flight. Perhaps the entire exercise is driven by the pressure brought on from private helicopter operators, who have long been facing huge delays.However there is a factual error in reporting of the angles of the main runways at CSIA and Juhu airports. The angles are not 27 deg and 26 deg as reported. The confusion must have emanated from the designation of main runway at CSIA as 27/16. The number "27" stands for 270 degrees while measuring clockwise from North to the landing direction; similarly "16" means 160 degrees, and so on. The correspondent should have cross checked with some aviation experts/officials before reporting.

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