Instrument landing system at Pune airport by December

Pune: Finally, the Pune Airport will get the much needed instrument landing system (ILS) in December. The system will help aircraft land in poor visibility conditions, which will in turn cut down the delays caused by fog during winter.
Although the Pune airport is getting the ILS, there seems a difference of opinion between Pune MP Suresh Kalmadi and the officials of the Airports Authority of India (AAI). While Kalmadi on Wednesday said the ILS would be in place in two months, that is before the Commonwealth Youth Games, airport officials beg to differ. "The ILS is scheduled to be installed in December," said J P Mathur, officiating director of the Pune Airport. "The AAI will install the ILS which will help guide the aircraft in bad weather conditions," said Mathur. "It will minimise the rate of flights getting cancelled during winter or monsoon," he added.
ILS facilities are a highly accurate and dependable means of navigating to the runway in adverse weather conditions. When using the ILS, the pilot determines aircraft position primarily by reference to instruments.
22/05/08 Siddharth Kelkar/Pune Newsline

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Categories: Airports May 2008