- •International civil aviation organization
- •English for air traffic controllers
- •Introduction
- •Lesson 1 flight ba 624 from mirabel international airport, montreal to heathrow international airport, london
- •Ba 624 at holding position
- •Vocabulary
- •Lesson 2
- •Aeronautical information service (ais)
- •Vocabulary
- •Lesson 3
- •The effects of the weather on aviation
- •Vocabulary
- •Lesson 4 the control tower
- •Vocabulary
- •Lesson 5 approach control
- •Vocabulary
- •Lesson 6 a conversation between a flight dispatcher and a pilot
- •Vocabulary
- •Lesson 7 area control service
- •Vocabulary
- •Lesson 8 radio navigation aids - vor/dme
- •Lesson 9 radio navigation aids aids to final approach and landing ils
- •Ils facility
- •Vocabulary
- •Lesson 10 conversations
- •Vocabulary
- •Lesson 11
- •Approach and landing
- •Lesson 12
- •Visual aids for navigation markings and lights
- •Vocabulary
- •Vasis is
- •Lesson 13 a short history of radar
- •Reflected energy
- •Vocabulary
- •Lesson 14 some problems associated with radar
- •Vocabulary
- •Lesson 15 other navigational aids
- •Vocabulary
- •Vocabulary index
Vasis is
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a landing aid.
distinguishable by its green light.
an electronic navaid.
comprised of red and white lights.
Lesson 13 a short history of radar
The principles of radar are not new; in fact, some early experiments were made back in the 1880s. In 1904 a German engineer had invented, as he explained, a radio-echo (1) "collision prevention device". By 1922 the famed electronics engineer, Marconi, devised a principle for sending radio signals between ships which would be reflected (2) back to a receiver on the sending ship and thereby immediately reveal the presence and bearing (3) of the other ship in fog or thick weather. This is the basic principle used in all radar.
Further improvements on this concept were developed, including the introduction of the "pulse" (4) principles on which modern radar is based. During the period 1935 - 1940, successful pulse radar systems were produced independently and, nearly at the same time, in the United States, England, France and Germany.
Reflected energy
The
application of radar in the air traffic control system consists of
two basic designs. The initial type of radar, called primary
radar,
(5)
began to be used in most parts of the world in the early 1950s.
Another form of radar, secondary
surveillance
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RADAR ENERGY
PULSE SYSTEM
The most common type of primary radar is the terminal area surveillance radar (TAR) (11) which was designed as a medium range radar - about 50 miles – for the control of traffic in the vicinity of an airport. While the progress of moving targets is constantly tracked, (12) display of fixed echoes reflecting from mountains or other obstructions may or may not be displayed. The normal rotation of a TAR is approximately 13 rpm, so that the traffic situation is updated every few seconds.
Another type of primary radar used in the control of air traffic is the long-range radar known as the en-route surveillance radar (RSR). (13) This system has a range up to about 200 miles and will detect aircraft up to an altitude of about 40,000 feet. It is used in area control centres for the control of en-route traffic. The RSR normally is provided with features similar to the TAR. Because of its slower rotation – 3 or 6 rpm and other factors, its accuracy and resolution are not as high as the TAR.
These are the more common types of primary radar used today; other primary radar are, PAR (14) and GCA (15) which are not so common.