Lucknow: Tough days are ahead for flyers from the city as thick fog is likely to disrupt air services over the next two months. And the situation may worsen since the Amausi airport authorities have missed two deadlines for installation of CAT-III B navigation system that facilitates aircraft landing during low visibility.
Fog hovers over the city for about two months -- December 15 to February 15. During this period, several flights, mainly those arriving and departing early in the morning and late evening, either get cancelled or long delayed.
While New Delhi IGI airport has CAT-II B navigation system that facilitates aircraft landing even when visibility is 50 meters, the Lucknow airport, regarded as the secondary airport to Delhi, has only CAT-II system which navigates an aircraft in 350 meters visibility.
AAI sources said the Advanced Surface Movement Guidance and Control System (ASMGCS) is yet to be installed at Amausi to make for CAT-III B. Airport director Surest Chanda Hota said AAI is trying to install the system at the earliest. "I am not sure when that would happen," he said.
25/11/15 Times of India
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Fog hovers over the city for about two months -- December 15 to February 15. During this period, several flights, mainly those arriving and departing early in the morning and late evening, either get cancelled or long delayed.
While New Delhi IGI airport has CAT-II B navigation system that facilitates aircraft landing even when visibility is 50 meters, the Lucknow airport, regarded as the secondary airport to Delhi, has only CAT-II system which navigates an aircraft in 350 meters visibility.
AAI sources said the Advanced Surface Movement Guidance and Control System (ASMGCS) is yet to be installed at Amausi to make for CAT-III B. Airport director Surest Chanda Hota said AAI is trying to install the system at the earliest. "I am not sure when that would happen," he said.
25/11/15 Times of India
