AAI JE ATC case studies
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The Airports Authority of India (AAI), a Miniratna Category-1 Public Sector Enterprise, runs a direct recruitment process for Junior Executive (Air Traffic Control), advertised under Advertisement No. 02/2025/CHQ with 309 posts and a job post date of 04-04-2025. The post sits within AAI's Air Navigation Services wing, whose published service lines are ATM (air traffic management) and CNS (communication, navigation and surveillance), so the role is an operations-and-technology job rather than a general administrative one. Candidates are typically engineering or science graduates who want a public-sector aviation career at an airport or area control centre. The AAI JE ATC case studies are 5 cases and about 3,298 words.
1Compression on Final Behind a Heavy
You are the approach radar controller for a single-runway airport, runway 27 in use, ILS CAT I, surface wind 270/15 gusting 25 kt. ANA 118, a Boeing 777-300ER (heavy), is established on the localizer at 6 NM, 160 kt, cleared to land.
671 words, about 3 min2Glideslope Fluctuation After a New Hangar
You are the ANS engineer on duty at a tier-2 airport with an ILS on runway 09. The glideslope monitor in the equipment room shows normal, and the last flight calibration was 90 days ago, within the published interval.
663 words, about 3 min3Vehicle Crossing Under Low Visibility
You are the tower controller at a single-runway airport, runway 09/27, 2,600 m long. Low visibility procedures are in force, RVR 600 m, and the CAT I minima are 550 m.
666 words, about 3 min4Security Lane Capacity at Peak
You are the terminal operations supervisor at an airport preparing the morning security plan. Four screening lanes are physically available.
662 words, about 3 min5Two Similar Callsigns and a Correct but Wrong Readback
You are the tower controller on frequency 118.7 during the evening peak. Two aircraft with similar callsigns are on the frequency: IGO 472 and IGO 427.
636 words, about 3 min