Area of Responsibility
The area of responsibility for Aldergrove includes the
Aldergrove Radar Manoeuvring Area (RMA), the Belfast Control Zone, the Belfast
Control Area and the airspace within 40nm of Aldergrove, from the time and place
at which:
- Arriving aircraft are released by area until control is transferred to Aerodrome Control (ADC)
- Aircraft approaching from outside controlled airspace cross the
boundary of controlled airspace until control is transferred to
Aerodrome Control (ADC)
- Departing aircraft are transferred from Belfast ADC, until they are transferred to the appropriate area sector
- Over flying aircraft are transferred from an adjacent sector, until such time as control is either returned to the previous sector or passed onto another sector.
The Aldergrove approach function is divided into 2
positions; Intermediate Approach (INT) and Final Director (FIN). INT is
responsible for the BEL stack.
The intermediate approach controller is responsible for taking traffic from
the holding stack into a single stream to be handed to the Final Director. The
Final Director takes this stream of traffic and establishes it on the ILS in a safe and expeditious manner.
INT is also responsible for the Intermediate Approach function for Belfast
City (EGAC)
A subsidiary task of Aldergrove is to provide a service to inbound, outbound
and transiting VFR/SVFR traffic operating within or near to the Aldergrove
Control Zone.