A team of technical experts from the Airports Authority of India’s (AAI) headquarters in New Delhi is engaged in a slew of techno-feasibility studies related to the new site for the proposed Pune international airport project at Khed, off the Pune-Nashik highway, about 45 km from Pune.
The new site was finalised at a high-level meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and a delegation of the state government led by chief minister Prithviraj Chavan on November 13, 2013. This was after the AAI had recommended the site following a preliminary survey.
“Many feasibility studies are already going on at our Delhi headquarters level with regards to the air traffic management and with regards to the communication, navigation and surveillance,” Pune airport director Manoj Kumar Gangal said. “These are the two important aspects of the techno-feasibility study, which is crucial for setting up a new airport,” he added.
Gangal said, “The exercise involves elements like route, wind pressure and soil studies. For instance, the soil condition has to be suitable for bearing the strength of an aircraft on the runway. Similarly, there should not be a tailwind, ie, a wind blowing in the same direction as that of the course of an aircraft.”
A study of weather conditions and an environmental impact assessment are other key factors and conducting all these will take a substantial amount of time, he added.
According to sources in the Pune divisional commissioner’s office, a total of 1,250 hectare land has been finalised for the project. Some part of this land will be notified from the Khed special economic zone, while the remaining has been identified from three or four villages located nearby. Two parallel runways of about 4,000 metre each have been proposed for the project.
The new site was finalised at a high-level meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and a delegation of the state government led by chief minister Prithviraj Chavan on November 13, 2013. This was after the AAI had recommended the site following a preliminary survey.
“Many feasibility studies are already going on at our Delhi headquarters level with regards to the air traffic management and with regards to the communication, navigation and surveillance,” Pune airport director Manoj Kumar Gangal said. “These are the two important aspects of the techno-feasibility study, which is crucial for setting up a new airport,” he added.
Gangal said, “The exercise involves elements like route, wind pressure and soil studies. For instance, the soil condition has to be suitable for bearing the strength of an aircraft on the runway. Similarly, there should not be a tailwind, ie, a wind blowing in the same direction as that of the course of an aircraft.”
A study of weather conditions and an environmental impact assessment are other key factors and conducting all these will take a substantial amount of time, he added.
According to sources in the Pune divisional commissioner’s office, a total of 1,250 hectare land has been finalised for the project. Some part of this land will be notified from the Khed special economic zone, while the remaining has been identified from three or four villages located nearby. Two parallel runways of about 4,000 metre each have been proposed for the project.
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