Landing system calibration likely today at Visakhapatnam

Visakhapatnam: The much-awaited in-flight calibration of the Instrument Landing System (ILS) by the special Dornier aircraft of the Airport Authority of India at the 10,000-ft new runway of the Visakhapatnam airport is likely to be taken up on Thursday as the technical team from Delhi is presently undertaking recalibration work at the Kolkata airport.
Sources said if everything goes on well, the necessary approval for using new runway laid in the east-west direction of the airport and the Category-I ILS might be obtained by the Director-General of Civil Aviation by the month-end and there is a move to invite Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Defence Minister A.K. Antony to inaugurate the facilities, including the night-landing facility, which had come up at a cost of Rs. 200 crores with the Navy spending three-fourths of the amount.
As per schedule, the aircraft team was supposed to reach Vizag on Wednesday itself after finishing the job in Kolkata. But due to bad weather there, its programme got delayed and after finishing the work it tried to reach Vizag in the evening but permission was not granted by the Navy. Even on Thursday, they have been told to carry out their job in the morning or evening (before sunset) and not during normal flight operations.
10/05/07 J. Balaji/The Hindu

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