As winter advances, pilots gear up for foggy landing

Chennai: As foggy weather is expected to set in at Delhi airport anytime, airlines are gearing up to flying in low-visibility conditions.
Fog reduces visibility considerably, forcing pilots to depend on instruments to land on runways equipped with Cat III A or Cat III B landing systems. The November-December period is when fog envelops the national capital; while Chennai airport experiences low visibility for a few days in mid-January.
Airlines have been told to prepare to initiate Cat III type-low visibility landing systems in their planes.
All domestic airlines, including Air India, Jet Airways, Spice Jet, Indigo and Kingfisher, have readied a pool of Cat III A or Cat III B-trained pilots and have instructed ground crew about the procedures to be adopted when visibility is between 150 and 125 metres. Most modern aircraft are compatible with CAT III A or B-type instrument landing systems to land during low-visibility conditions.
18/12/11 Times of India

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Categories: airports Dec 2011