Airports Authority of India provides air traffic services in accordance with Annex 11 to the Chicago Convention. These services are flight information service, alerting service and air traffic control service. In order to achieve the objectives of air traffic services there is a need to specify procedures necessary for the safety of air navigation for uniform application throughout India.

Maintaining of existing safety levels or enhancing it further, calls for standardization and quality assurance in every sub systems of Air Traffic System at one end and maintaining harmony with the ICAO standards and recommended practices at the other. This Manual of Air Traffic Services Part I has been developed by Airports Authority of India as a part of comprehensive documentation to achieve this objective.

The purpose of this document is to establish procedures, provide information and instructions which are essential for the provision of safe and efficient air traffic services in the Indian airspace and at airports where air traffic services are provided by Airports Authority of India. It is published for use and guidance of its ATS personnel.

The ATS in-Charge of an ATC center will ensure that the provision of air traffic service under his jurisdiction comply with the processes, procedures and instructions contained in this manual.

I am sure that this manual will fulfill the need for best practices in provision of Air Traffic Services according to international & national standards and recommended practices and in meeting the requirement of ICAO Universal Safety Audit Oversight Programme, which aims at documenting what we do, doing what we have documented and finally demonstrating that we are doing so.

I, therefore, call upon all the personnel engaged in the provisions of Air Traffic Services to comply with the standards, recommended practices and procedures given in this manual for enhancing safety in the airspace under their jurisdiction.

CHAIRMAN
Airports Authority of India