New plane tracking system at Robin Hood Airport
27.10.06
Robin Hood Airport is to use new technology to track flights following complaints from residents that planes are deviating from their designated routes. The Aircraft Tracking System will allow airport bosses to follow the paths of hundreds of planes arriving and leaving the airport each week.
Steve Adamson, product development and communications manager at Robin Hood, said that the new tracking system would allow aviation experts at the airport to keep tabs on flight paths. 'Robin Hood Airport has developed a public noise complaints procedure as approved by the local planning authority to handle, monitor, investigate and report each complaint lodged by members of the public.'
'Furthermore, we are in the process of installing an Aircraft Tracking System. The system will monitor the path of an aircraft within the preferred departure routes. Aircraft operating outside the preferred departure route will be investigated,' he added.
