MEDAN - About 95 percent of two-lane arterial road to the site Kualanamu Airport in Deli Serdang regency, North Sumatra, was completed.
After a hearing with Council Commission D North Sumatra in Medan, today, Chief Executive National Roads Center for Region I Wijaya Seta said it had completed the two-lane road was along the 14 km of the 14.5 km set. "There were about 500 feet unfinished. Was done in February," he said.
According to Wijaya, the construction of as many as two-lane arterial road is still fragmented due to land acquisition has not been carried out in stages.
In fact, development is not done thoroughly presenting its own difficulties because the process longer. "We wanted (the land) free of all new work," he said.
Overall, he said, the arterial road to the location Kualanamu airport to be built Center for Implementing National Roads Region I consists of four lanes.
For a while, the four-lane arterial roads have been built along six miles and will be continued in 2013 with a multiyear contract.
By working until 2014, will be built again arterial road with four lanes along the 13.5 km and flying bridge (fly over) along 880 meters. Four-lane road will be completed in two years, he said.
Shadow Operation
PT Angkasa Pura II started doing "shadow operation" or a shadow operation Kualanamu airport to determine the readiness to serve national and international flights.
"Activities that have started since January 10, 2013," said GM Angkasa Pura II Ridwan Said Medan in Medan today.
As a first step, says Said, the activities carried out to test all navigation and radar equipment located at the airport which was built in the district of Deli Serdang it.
In this activity, the so-called "dry shadow operation" is, it wants to ensure navigation and radar equipment was functioning properly in order to arrange schedules and routes.
After the initial activities were successful, it would make a "wet shadow operation" through a process of communication with the aircraft will land at the airport.
After numerous tests done, it will make visits to determine the possibility of a system that has not been functioning optimally.
Testing is required to obtain certification eligibility as an international airport that serves landings and flights to various destinations. "It was a requirement for the entire airport. Entire equipment must function properly," he said.
If the equipment is functioning, it is still conducting searches to find other parts that still need to be improved to ensure the readiness of the international airport.
It will do the shadow operation for one month. "The team continues to monitor," said Said.
(Dat03/antara)