Procedural Control Fundamentals (ASE - 5) Flashcards
Procedural Control
Procedural control is a combination of the methods, established procedures and standards for the safe deconfliction and accountability of airborne assets in situations where positive radar control is limited, unavailable or undesired.
Methods of Procedural Control
Formal/Informal Airspace Control Measures
As you have read in previous chapters, the airspace control order will contain many of the measures used in an operations area to deconflict aircraft. Aircraft will obey different traffic patterns when ingressing, egressing and over the target area depending on aircraft type and mission. Often, C2 assets (such as AWACS) do not have the resources or have systems limitations that may prevent accurate deconfliction of all aircraft at a given time. So aircraft follow methods such as transit levels, or minimum risk routes and even ingress routes known as front streets or back streets to ensure fratricide is avoided, and safety is adhered to.
Prerequisites for Procedural Control
Established Airspace Control Orders
Communications Network
Skilled Aircrew and Controllers (most important)
Command and Control
Kill Box and Keypad Airspace Deconfliction
Aircraft will be assigned airspace that is de-conflicted laterally and vertically from all other aircraft. Aircraft working co-altitude can work adjacent airspace; aircrews must be notified of active adjacent airspace. At times aircrews may request to work certain quadrants of individual keypads.
Kill Box Overlay
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KILLBOX DECONFLICTION
Air-to-surface and surface-to-surface indirect fires can be deconflicted by altitude, lateral/geographic, or time separation (Or, some combination of the three). The establishing authority (EA) HQ will coordinate with the air component to define the appropriate deconfliction technique.
