Landings set to become safer at Cochin

Nedumbassery: As part of its attempts to raise the safety level of flight operations, the Cochin International Airport Limited has lined up lights along the centre of its runway here to aid the pilots, especially in adverse weather.
Established at a cost of around Rs.2 crore, the new installation at CIAL is the only such facility in airports in the State, said an official statement.
The runway centre-line lighting system consists of a single light installed at uniform intervals to provide a continuous lighting reference for the aircraft.
“The lights embedded on the runway are all white at the beginning and then alternate between red and white beginning at 900 m and eventually to continuous red lights for the last 300 m,” officials said.
The system is not mandatory for CIAL, which has a Category-1 runway, but it has been established to provide enough lighting to guide an aircraft touchdown safely.
17/12/11 The Hindu

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Categories: airports Dec 2011, Safety Dec 2011