Separation
Radar separation
General Radar separation describes a minimum horizontal and vertical distance that must exist be...
Reduced Vertical Separation Minima (RVSM)
Introduction With the enhancement of technology in aircraft equipment, in 1982, the ICAO started...
Wake turbulence separation
Wake turbulence: yet another abstract new term. This video explains what wake vortices are and ho...
Runway separation
Runway separation
Runway management is the main task of every tower controller. Without a runway, an airport obviou...
Intersecting runways
Many airports have intersecting runways either to compensate for prevailing weather conditions or...
Reduced runway separation (RRS)
Reduced runway separation is not a mandatory part of S1 training. Requirements Reduced Runway S...
Cruising Levels
To reduce the danger of a collision between enroute traffic flying on the same cruising level, pr...
Separation on parallel runways
General Airports may have multiple parallel runways to increase capacity. In Germany, there are ...
Visual separation
Visual separation refers to two possibilities of separation used in different cases. There is v...
Procedural separation
With procedural separation, two aircraft can fall below the 3 NM required for radar separation un...