Aurigny to use Sat Nav technology
24.12.11
Channel Islands airline Aurigny's fleet of trislander planes will use a satellite landing system to make it easier to land at Alderney Airport. The airline has trialled the system for a year and been given permission to use it by the Civil Aviation Authority. It will also be used at Southampton Airport.
David Rice, flight operations director at the airline, said the new system allows planes to land in worse weather conditions than currently possible and improves the long-term viability of our trislander planes. It is expected to be installed on all Aurigny's trislanders early in 2012.
Mr Rice added: ‘Unlike Guernsey, Jersey and many other mainland airports, Alderney is too small to justify the cost of an instrument landing system. It utilises information from European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (Egnos) which uses GPS to make low-visibility landings possible. Southampton Airport is also planning to introduce approach procedure using Egnos.’
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