Air Traffic Management

The Air Traffic Management (ATM) and Aeronautical Information Service (AIS) Section, among other things, performs tasks related to certification and oversight of the application of regulations in the area of air traffic management (ATM).

Air Traffic Management is a term that includes all services and functions that serve to assist an aircraft when departing an airport, flying through the airspace and landing at the destination airport, simultaneously using Air Traffic Services (ATS), Airspace Management (ASM) and Air Traffic Flow Management (ATFM).

 

 

Air traffic services (ATS) include:

• Air Traffic Control (ATC) with the aim of preventing collisions between aircraft, between aircraft and obstacles, between aircraft on maneuvering areas of the airport, expediting and maintaining the regular flow of air traffic;

• Flight Information Service (FIS) - provision of advice and information required for safe, regular and efficient flight operations;

• Alerting Services (ALR) - reporting to the competent entities about the aircraft that needs search and rescue assistance, if necessary, providing assistance to those entities during the search and rescue of the aircraft; and

• Air Traffic Advisory Services - services provided in advisory airspace to ensure separation, as far as practicable, between aircraft flying under IFR.

Air traffic services are provided over the entire territory of Montenegro, as well as in the international waters where Montenegro is responsible for providing these services, by the Serbia and Montenegro Air Traffic Services SMATSA llc.

Airspace Management (ASM) includes:

• Planning the use of airspace - the primary goal is to maximize the use of available airspace through the dynamic distribution of time of its use; and

• distribution of airspace between different categories of airspace users based on their needs.

Air Traffic Flow Management (ATFM) includes activities aimed at supporting safe, regular and efficient flow of air traffic with maximum use of air traffic control capacity and with the volume of traffic corresponding to the capacity declared by air traffic control service providers.

In connection with the above, this section also prepares professional legal bases related to: classification, organisation and use of airspace, route network according to traffic flows, RVSM and FUA concept.

Furthermore, the Section performs tasks related to crisis management (CM), approval of flight procedures (PANS-OPS), operational procedures for safety nets; participates in activities of civil-military cooperation in all domains, including the application of the concept of flexible use of airspace, cooperates with authorities responsible for search and rescue, cooperation with military aviation authorities (MAA); training and issuance of licenses and authorizations to air traffic controllers and working hours of air traffic control units, oversight to determine the degree of application of the unit training program and continuous unit competence schemes of air traffic controllers; determining the compliance of aviation organizations for the training of air traffic controllers; participates in the preparation of regulations which regulate issues of training, issuing of authorizations to air traffic controllers and regulates the working hours of air traffic controllers and air traffic control units; oversight of the application of regulations in the fields of aviation cartography and the provision of aeronautical information services, as well as the field of design and maintenance of all types of instrument and visual flight procedures for arrival, approach, and departure of aircraft; prepares drafts of regulations under the competence of the Agency and professional legal basis for the needs of drafting regulatory acts regulating the issues of providing aeronautical information services and designing and maintaining flight procedures under the competence of the Ministry; processes requests and issues approvals for the introduction of new fligth procedures or modified existing flight procedures; participates in international coordination and cooperation related to ATS, ASM, ATFCM, CM, AC, AIS and PANS-OPS, as well as cooperation with competent authorities and aviation entities; participates in the preparation for the publication of aviation data and information for which the Agency is the originator.