SEMINAR ON GLOBAL SATELLITE AIR NAVIGATION SYSTEM FINISHED ITS WORK IN ALMA-ATA








ALMA-ATA, March 8. /RIA Novosti correspondent Revmira Voshchenko/. On Wednesday in Alma-Ata a two-day international seminar on introduction of a global satellite air navigation system finished its work.


	According to the report of the RIA Novosti correspondent, among those who took part were representatives of Russia, states of the Caucasus region, Central Asia, Moldova, Mongolia, and also of airlines of the United Kingdom, Denmark, Sweden, Germany and Canada.


	Stewar Ericsson from the Swedish airline Swedavia, director of the satellite system project, named its major advantages: with the available system of information and communications, an aircraft crew would be able to determine its position in the air with accuracy of up to 10 meters, to receive an operational signal regarding the threat of air collision with another aircraft. The speed and quantity of data transmitted by a pilot increases greatly which is especially important in the absence of radar control. On the ground at the same time virtual monitoring of the air field and a runway in complicated meteorological conditions is being updated.


	Aleksander Zemskikh, a representative of the Russian state air traffic organization, stated that the project "is extremely needed by Russia with its great number of local airlines not supplied with location information." According to him, the global satellite system is undergoing trials in Magadan (the Russian Far East) and soon airports of the Tyumen region (Siberia), which serve oil industry, would be equipped with it.


	General director of "Kazaeronavigatsiya" Sergei Kulnazarov explained that Kazakhstan became the seminar venue due to diversity of landscape which ideally suits the pilot project to introduce the navigation system and the total length of air routes here amounts to 45 thousand kilometres.