Aurigny to use Sat Nav technology on flights
24.12.11
Channel Islands airline Aurigny's fleet of trislanders 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.
David Rice, flight operations director, said the new system allows planes to land in worse weather than currently possible and improves the long-term viability of the trislander aircraft. It is expected to be installed on all the company'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 easier. Southampton Airport is also planning to introduce approach procedure using Egnos.’
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