MILPORT IFR/RAD

Chief Flight Operations

- lead and supervise flight operations at his dedicated airbase
- coordinate flight operations with the AOC
- make decisions in regard to the execution of flight operations at his dedicated airbase
- supervise reserve pilots currency missions and issue mission orders where applicable
- support the resolution of problems related to flight operations
- supervise bird activity and order countermeasures where applicable
- lead the weekly flight operation meeting
- support air crew in case of emergency
- inform about flight accidents and start immediate action according to MFU handbook
- inform skyguide, support and logistic units about flight operations and related specialities

Radar vectoring is the provision of navitational guidance to aircraft in the form of headings, based on the use of radar.

providing terrain clearance and separation from other aircraft (according to ICAO airspace classification)

Radar monitoring is the use of radar for the purpose of providing aircraft with information and advice relative to significant deviations from nominal flight path, including deviations from the terms of ATC clearances.

- TSA boundary
- sepearation from traffic not part of the mission

Air crews requesting radar monitoring for missions within Swiss TSA shall be specifically monitored in regard to the TSA boundary.

They need not to be monitored in regard to terrain clearance.

ATC shall ensure the applicable vertical separation or radar separation from any known traffic that is not part of the mission.

pilot interpreted: horizontal deviations, separation from other traffic
"In Switzerland, the final approach phase of such approaches shall be radar monitored in regard to horizontal deviations from the nominal flight path. Furthermore ATC shall ensure separation from other known traffic when applicable."

EINA: horizontal deviations, separation from other traffic
"EINA approaches in Switzerland include radar monitoring in regard to horizontal deviations from the nominal flight path. Furthermore ATC shall ensure separation from other known traffic when applicable."

- flights within TSA
- approaches (pilot interpreted final approaches and EINA approaches

between:

- IFR in airspaces class C, D and E
- IFR and VFR in airspace class C
- IFR and VFR in airspace class D within TSA according to local procedures ADDC
 

- all MIL VFR flights
- any IFR and VFR flights
- IFR and SVFR
- SVFR

2'000 ft vertical separation

(flight crews are required to report to the ATC the use of the afterburner)

- Radar vectoring:
"Provide radar vectoring of arriving traffic onto pilot-interpreted final approach aids or to a point from which a surveillance radar approach (SRA), a precision radar approach (PAR) or a visual approach can be made

- Radar monitoring:
"Provide radar monitoring of other pilot-interpreted approaches."

- Surveillance Radar Approaches (SRA):
"In accordance with local procedures, conduct surveillance radar approaches, if no other approach facility is available. Provide separation between a) suceeding departing aircraft, b) suceeding arriving aircraft, c) a departing aircraft and a succeeding arriving aircraft."

IFR: according to ATC instruction

VFR: special*

TMA/CTR:
QNH altimeter setting

outside TMA/CTR and within TSA:
- below 3'000 ft AGL -> altitude
- above 3'000 ft AGL -> flight levels
- within any TSA -> flight levels

VHF radio set and a second VHF/UHF radio set must be operative throughout the flight

both radios have to be checked before DEP (respectively before entering IMC)

- transponder mode 2: individual code for each military aircraft
- transponder mode 3/A: four digits 4096 codes
- transponder mode C: mode A (4 digits 4096 codes) and mode C (altitude read-out)
- transponder mode 4: international / CH; tactical transponder mode

with a distance of less than 150 m between each aircraft;

flight leader sets transponder on Modes 2/3/A and C, leader/wingman sets transponder on "standby"

no, for all aircraft involved in the same mission the use of transponder may be subject to tactical considerations

radar services may be impaired

- Quadradar
- IFF Cardion
- FLUR
- MALS Plus
- Long Range
- FLORAKO

TAXI
SURVEILLANCE
PRECISION
HEIGHT FINDER

precision approach radar

AZIMUTH (left antenna) and ELEVATION (right antenna) display a radar picture based on primary radar only

false, primary radar only

on every airbase still used for precision approaches (2 independent PAR stations are available)

AZIMUTH

secondary radar read out

on the airbases ALP, LOC, MEI, SIO

FLUR (Flugplatz Überwachungs Radar)

Militärische Anflug Leit System

will replace the systems QUADRADAR, IFF CARDION and FLUR (project delayed for years due to problems with the surveillance radar)

civil Long Range Radars

capacity of FLUR is limited

Long Range-Controller acts as an additional interface between FLORAKO and FLUR (FLORAKO -> Long Range -> FLUR -> PAR)

No, only Long Range is used for surveillance radar approaches and/or line-up for ILS approaches

artificial word, put together from the names of its components: FLORES, RALUS, KOMSYS

= complete radar framework (not a single radar site)

- radar sites
- direction centers
- computer systems
- communication networks

- to monitor all Swiss airspace (and over adjacent territories)
- to guide air force missions within

civil radar data and flight plan information

about 15 radar sites,
overall 28 radar sources