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The support controller goes onto G-INFO to get the details of the aircraft – where it’s registered, type and the description of the aircraft using ABPic. Caernarfon Airport then called D&D to inform us that G-FIND is overdue at its airfield, but have no further details.īeing a weekend, D&D will have one controller and one support controller, we’d therefore be splitting tasks to ensure we work as efficiently and effectively as possible. Saturday afternoon and Caernarfon Airport has noticed that it is still expecting another inbound before it closes the airfield, but the flight planned departure airfield is incorrect. However, here is a realistic example which encompasses most of what we have available to resolve these events. Now you are aware of the more common triggers for tracing action, I’d usually go through a list of what tools and strategies are available to D&D to help locate the aircraft.

Report of an ELT when Mission Control Centre (MCC) has a known callsign.

A phone call from the public referencing a ‘possible’ downed aircraft.

Aircraft didn’t arrive for a pre-booked Practice Diversion.

An aircraft doesn’t sign off from the ATC frequency they were working.

An aircraft is overdue at the planned destination aerodrome.

I’ll give you a flavour of a few of the common scenarios that would activate tracing action: The possibilities of how and when tracing action is activated are wide and varied. It is therefore our responsibility to carry out the tracing action efficiently and with urgence. Each time D&D is requested to conduct tracing action, there is a likelihood that the aircraft in question may have had an emergency and may have crashed.

Tracing action is the action D&D takes to track and trace the location of an aircraft where the safety status of that aircraft is unknown. Safety status of an aircraft can never be assumed. The exact same process is conducted if a pilot diverts to an aerodrome that wasn’t the intended flight planned destination or leaves a frequency without ‘signing off’.

Ever wondered what happens in the background if you had to make a crash landing that nobody knew about? Well today is your lucky day, as this article explores what D&D does behind the scenes regarding tracing action.