Topic 26 air traffic service faculty of kirovograd flight academy

Air Traffic Service Faculty is the largest faculty in the Academy. It was created in 1986.

Nowadays it has the following specialities: Air Traffic Control, Aeronautical Information Service and Flight Planning, Emergency Service and Aviation Safety.

Air Traffic Controllers are trained for airways and aerodrome control.

The graduates of Aeronautical Information Service and Flight Planning speciality are able to collect, prepare and process information for flight crews; plan flights, carry out pre-flight briefing; co-operate with adjacent services and organizations to co-ordinate flight plans.

Emergency Service and Aviation Safety graduates make incidents forecasting and work out recommendations for safety flight operations, carry out search and rescue operations, passport and customs control, etc.

The simulator training is an integral and compulsory part of Air Traffic Controller training. ATC Simulator Centre is aimed to provide ATC personnel with training of the highest level. The simulator training programmes are updated regularly as new documents, regulations and recommendations come into effect to achieve the high level of ATCO professional reliability in normal and abnormal conditions. 40% of the simulator training is carried out using English aviation phraseology; therefore, the instructors of Foreign Languages Department conduct Aviation English lessons for ATC simulator instructors.

Topic 27 aeronautical information service in ukraine

Aeronautical information is provided by the Aeronautical Information Service (AIS), which is an integral part of the Ukrainian State Air Traffic Service Enterprise. AIS is the sole authorized body responsible for the provision of aeronautical information service in Ukraine.

Since January 2001 AIS has been publishing and supporting Aeronautical Information Publication (AIP) of Ukraine, the main aviation document containing all aeronautical information of a permanent or lasting character essential for performing flights in the Ukrainian airspace. It is published in two languages: English and Russian.

Since April 2004 AIS has been publishing and supporting the Aeronautical Information Publication Visual Flight Rules (AIP VFR) of Ukraine. The publication comprises the information about 34 Ukrainian aerodromes.

AIS provides the national Integrated Aeronautical Information Package to 61 countries of the world in exchange for similar ones.

International information and message department (NOTAM-office) of AIS distributes NOTAM series A, B, C and D to foreign countries, CIS and Ukraine. Daily NOTAM-office processes about 2000 messages, which are saved in database and disseminated among users. The software enables to keep track of messages for every single country or aerodrome.

Pre-flight information for airspace users is available at Briefing offices at the airports of Kyiv/Boryspil, Kyiv/Zhuliany, Zaporizhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Lviv, Odesa, Simferopol, as well as AROs (air traffic services reporting offices) in 23 airports of Ukraine.

Rules and procedures of provision of Ukrainian airspace users with essential aeronautical information service is set out in the following national regulatory documents: Rules of aeronautical information service provision; Regulations on provision of pre-flight information at civil aviation aerodromes of Ukraine; Procedure of submission, consideration, approval and publication of the amendments to the aeronautical information documents.