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《TAIPEI TIMES》 New Cape Santiago radar comes online

A new long-range radar system in New Taipei City’s Cape Santiago is pictured during an opening ceremony held yesterday by the Civil Aeronautics Administration.
Photo courtesy of the Civil Aeronautics Administration

A new long-range radar system in New Taipei City’s Cape Santiago is pictured during an opening ceremony held yesterday by the Civil Aeronautics Administration. Photo courtesy of the Civil Aeronautics Administration

2021/12/07 03:00

AVIATION STANDARDS: The radar system can complete a full sweep every 10 seconds and would improve the nation’s ability to pinpoint incoming Chinese military aircraft

By Shelley Shan / Staff reporter

A new long-range radar system in New Taipei City’s Cape Santiago (三貂角) would help the Ministry of National Defense better detect Chinese military aircraft that fly into Taiwan’s southwest air defense identification zone, Minister of Transportation and Communications Wang Kwo-tsai (王國材) said yesterday.

Wang made the remarks on the sidelines of the new system’s launch ceremony, when asked by reporters if the system could detect Chinese military aircraft.

The new system enables the Air Navigation and Weather Services to monitor and search for civilian aircraft flying through the north of the Taipei Flight Information Region (FIR), Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) Director-General Lin Kuo-hsien (林國顯) told reporters.

However, it is capable of monitoring various types of aircraft, Lin said.

“It will detect signals sent by aircraft and allow flight controllers to make queries. If an airplane does not send any signals, we will still know that it is about to enter our flight information region through the system,” Lin said.

The Air Navigation and Weather Services has installed 11 radar systems across the nation: nine terminal area radar systems and two long-range radar systems.

Another long-range radar system has been installed in Pingtung County’s Oluanpi (鵝鑾鼻), which would monitor aircraft passing through the south of the Taipei FIR, the CAA said.

In 2019, the CAA budgeted NT$676 million (US$24.37 million at the current exchange rate) to upgrade the nation’s long-range radar systems, which have been in use for more than 20 years.

The system in Oluanpi is to be officially activated next month, the agency added.

Wang told the ceremony that the Taipei FIR covers 18 international flight routes, which includes flights from the US, Canada, Japan, South Korea and China.

The upgraded radar system would enable air-traffic controllers to accurately identify the location, distance and altitude of aircraft to ensure aviation safety, he said.

As recommended by the International Civil Aviation Organization, the new radar system is also equipped with “Mode S,” which is a secondary surveillance process that allows selective interrogation of aircraft based on a unique 24-bit address assigned to each aircraft.

“The new radar system shows that Taiwan has been enhancing its civil aviation service and making sure that civil aviation standards are in sync with those set by the international organization,” Wang said.

Lin noted the challenges of building the radar system.

“The radar sits on a 32.3m-high tower. Construction was also affected by the northeast monsoon and work had to be suspended whenever there was a strong gust,” he said.

The new system makes a full sweep every 10 seconds, which would greatly enhance the accuracy of aircraft positioning, Lin said.

The new systems in Cape Santiago and Oluanpi are the “eyes” of Taiwan, which make it possible to monitor aircraft activity across the nation, the Air Aviation and Weather Services said.

“Construction in Oluanpi proceeded relatively smoothly because the system was built on flat terrain. The radar system in Cape Santiago is in a mountainous area, and workers could only deliver three dome panels at a time,” the agency said, adding that the COVID-19 pandemic has also made it difficult to schedule the importation of equipment and the arrival of engineers from overseas.

Each system’s primary surveillance radar would have a detection radius of 220 nautical miles (407.44km), with a capacity to detect more than 1,000 aircraft at a time, the agency said.

Their secondary surveillance radars would have a detection radius of 250 nautical miles, with a capacity to detect 900 aircraft at a time, it said.

新聞來源:TAIPEI TIMES

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