Welcome to IVAO India Division

Dear Members , It's my pleasure to announce the release of our new 2012 tours. India Events Department has created 15 new and interesting tours for pilots to have a good time flying in the Indian Division & also we are happy to create a way for controllers to join in the 2012 tours.The new tours have more variety in awards in comparison to the 2011 tours. The 2011 tours will be open till 1 Feb. 2012 , so hurry up if you are still flying them...!! No take off will be accepted after 31 Jan. 2012..!! We are also proud to announce that we had successfully done our 2011 tours. There were more than 3000 reports from pilots in MODA Lite System and more than 260 awards have been issued to pilots, we are thankful to our members for their contribution to India Division , We expect some higher figures this coming 2012 ! For more information about our new tours, please check the India Division's MODA Lite System. ( http://tours.ivao.aero/cgi-bin/tours.pl?division=IN ) We wish you have a wonderful time flying around in India Division and hope you enjoy the new 2012 tours. Happy NEW YEAR...!!

IVAO India is proud to unveil its brand new Training Management Center. Sign up for the TMC to request trainings for ATC and Pilot levels. You will also find study materials and a question database available to you very soon! Find it here or click on either CONTROLLERS or PILOT on the top menu and scroll down to TRAINING. Have fun!!!

We are pleased to announce Air India Virtual has been added to the
IVAO VA database as our Partner Airline.

The airline website is accessible by clicking on its logo on the left.

Mumbai's CSIA airport is currently being upgraded in light of the booming air traffic growth in the Indian aviation. According to the plan, Mumbai's airport will have a new terminal, a new ATC, new taxiways and have its old terminals upgraded.

Designed by SOM Architects, a new integrated terminal spread across 4.8mn sq ft will be able to handle 40 mn passengers/annum by the time it is fully functional in 2013.

The design combines an innovative set of swing facilities to optimize utilization of the terminal across the 24-hour operational day.

L&T constructions bagged the $1.4bn contract to construct the terminal in November 2007.

The integrated terminal will be built in 2 phases. In the first phase, the international terminal T2A will be torn down and will pave the way for the construction of one side of the new terminal. This section is expected to be thrown open around late 2010. In the second phase, T2B+T2C will be torn down to make way for the second and last section of the new terminal. Construction of this section will end in 2013.

Proposed Developments:

• 11 Rapid Exit Taxiways and 4 Parallel Taxiways to increase the operational efficiency of the cross runway system
• Expansion of the airport operational area
• Construction of New ATC Tower
• Implementation of a model Slum Rehabilitation scheme in line with the State Government Policy
• Best in class technology for Airport Operations
• Environmental Up gradation through use of unique,integrated Architectural & Urban Design image, large green areas, indoor & outdoor Landscaped Areas, Rainwater Harvesting and Energy Conservation

Key Facilities at the Revamped CSIA:

Design of the new ATC tower that'll be ready by 2011:

It has been designed by HBS architects and according to fellow member KB335ci2, it'll be 98.4m tall. Here's an awesome sketch drawn by him-

NB: All information & pictures have been given by IN-DIR

ATCs in Indian FIRs and Division staff can now use the IVAO Intercom.
The link is available under the 'Controllers' menu.

FRA Ratings for all CTR positions in Indian airspace has been upgraded to APC with immediate effect.

Members are now required to be at least an Approach Controller to be able to go online as CTR Controller in Indian airspace.

The IVAC India Sector File for ATCs has been updated with some VORs & fixes added. These were inadvertently left out in the July 2011 update.

ATCs should download the latest file from the Resources section of the website.

Karan Malik has been confirmed by the Executive as IN-ADIR. He is no longer "On Trial".
Heartiest congratulations to him.

1.There is some good news for ATCs controlling in Indian airspace. The latest India Sector File is now available. This has the VIDP ground layout in a new avatar!
2.Latest VIDP scenery (2011) for FS9 is also now available.

Our Division Director, Rohit Dalaya, has created the AFCAD file for VABB with the latest layouts and taxiways/taxiway signs accurately marked.

There are 2 separate AFCAD files for FSX and FS2004 and are available for download in our Resources section.

Welcome to Sepehr Ebadi Borna on his appointment as Special Operations Co-ordinator. This is in addition to his position as the Division EAC.

Hearty congratulations to:
Karan Malik as ADIR & TC.
Constant de Haas who is back as our EC & MAC.
Sanket Deshpande as AOC & MC.
Deepak Blassi as FOC.

Heatiest Congratulations to Mr Deepak Blassi and Mr. Sepehr Borna for their new positions in the Events Department . .

The latest updated IVAC sector file for ATCs in India is now available in the Resources pages.
Everybody giving ATC services in the Indian airspace should use this file.

New scenery files and charts are available for download from the 'Resources' section of this web site.

Hello to all Indian Division Members!!! This is a reminder to all members who are interested in taking up any vacant staff position. Please take a look at the list of available positions under division staff/ vacancies.So if you think you have the expertise, fill out the application at the bottom and we will get back to you. Regards, IN-HQ

IVAO India has implemented the Guest Control Approval (GCA) program for all our ATC positions regulated by FRA (Facility Rating Assignment). Check the Controllers pages for details.
Click herefor FRA details.

Dear Members, Please take this golden oppurtunity presented by our Training Coordinator , Mr Karan Malik, in joining him in this upcoming event. This event has especially been formulated for all new members to be able to clear all their doubts in getting online. Please check the events page for details. India Division Staff

Indian Division welcomes all new members... Gopi Nallamothu Praveen Kotiya, Naresh Jethani, Sidharth Raju, Divyesh Sakariya, Vipin Venu. Please feel free to contact our membership coordinator, Mr Sanket Deshpande at In-MC@ivao.aero for any help required.

Indian Division welcomes all new members. Himanshu Sabharwal, Tombu Tolstoy Paonam, Mahamed Farhan and Rahul Ghosh. Please contact our Membership Coordinator, Sanket Deshpande at IN-MC@ivao.aero for any help required.

A brand new Float Plane Tour is now open for all.
Details are available from the Tours page as well as from HERE

Our very own Division Assistant Director, Vybhava Srinivasan, has been
awarded the IVAO Medal of Honour for the efforts he has put in as IVAO
Public Relations Director.

Heartiest congratulations to him!

The Heli Tour for 2010 is now open!

See the details in the 'Tours' pages

We are pleased to announce the opening of 6 new tours for the year 2010.
There is something for every kind of pilot: IFR, VFR, Microlite, Special Ops, Long Haul, Turboprop...

See the details in the 'Tours' pages.

The India Long Haul Tour 2010 is now OPEN!
Rush over to the Tours page to get all the details and start flying!

Live Help: You can now access "Live Help" on the website. The India Division staff will be around to help you with any questions on IVAO and also give you information on India Division. If you have trouble getting started on IVAO or have any ideas or suggestion, you can reach out to our staff via the Live Help. We will be glad to help you. Also, in case no staff is online you can leave your question and we will revert back to you at the earliest. We sincerely hope this new feature will be useful.
Many thanks to Sanjay Dutt our Webmaster for implementing this at short notice.

Mumbai FIR: We have now started working on our ATC Standard Operating Procedures. This will be a great resource for our ATCs and also for pilots. The detailed Mumbai FIR SOP for Mumbai airport (VABB) can be accessed from the menu on the top - Controllers->Local Procedures and choose Mumbai FIR->Mumbai (VABB). We are sure this will be useful.
Many thanks to Karan Malik our Training and ATC Operations Co-ordinator for authoring this.

Tours: The new Indian Division 2010 tours will be available soon and you can start flying them in the next few days The Indian Division Tours will be available for IFR, VFR, ULM, Long Haul and more. I am sure you will find this exciting and we will also have events surrounding the launch of these tours.
Constant de Haas, our Events Co-ordinator is working hard to have them live at the earliest. Will update you as soon as they are available.

We welcome Karan Malik as our Training Co-ordinator and also as our ATC Operations Co-ordinator.
We wish him all the very best in his new roles.

A warm welcome to Deepak Blassi as our new Event Assistant Co-ordinator.
We wish him the very best.

New scenery links for some Indian airports, as well as others, are now available in the Resources pages.
Download, install and have fun flying into and out of these airports with the latest sceneries.

AFCAD file for VABB is in the resources section.
The file is available for both FS9 & FSX.
This updates the airport taxiways, taxiway signs, parking gates/stands etc.

These should be downloaded and installed in your computer.

ATCs! A brand new updated sectorfile is now available for download.
It is named india20091024.zip and replaces the old india20090906.zip, and can be downloaded here.

This file has been updated with the latest layout of VABB including renaming of taxiways, etc. All ATCs should use this file.

We are happy to announce, India Online Day, every Saturday between 9:30pm(IST)-11:30pm(IST) [1600Z-1800Z].

Details can be seen here.

Some new resources have been added for ATCs to aid them in their task.
These are available in the Documents page for Controllers.

The Enroute Airways chart, as published by AAI, is available for download from our Resources pages.

This document should be helpful to pilots and ATCs.

A warm welcome to Sanket Deshpande as our new Membership Co-ordinator.
We wish him the very best.

A brand new updated sectorfile is now available for download.
It is named india20090906.zip and replaces the old india.zip, and can be downloaded here.

All ATCs should use this file.