Mangaluru: Come April next. Mangaluru International Airport under the Airports Authority of India (AAI) will provide air navigation services to aeroplanes with more sophisticated equipment.
According to J.T. Radhakrishna, director of the airport, modern equipment being installed at the airport now would provide enhanced safe navigation services to flights. The total revamp of air navigational services equipment would cost about Rs. 18 crore and the projects would be completed by March-end 2017.
The airport is in the process of replacing its three main navigation equipment. They are very high frequency omni directional radio range equipment, monopulse secondary surveillance radar and instrument landing system (ILS).
The very high frequency omni directional radio range equipment provided navigational services to flights crossing over Mangaluru in a range of more than 200 nautical miles. Such flights need not land at Mangaluru airport. The equipment is now at Kaikamba about 12 km away from the airport. It was being shifted from there to the premises of the old terminal building at the airport and an advanced equipment valued at Rs. 4 crore would be installed there to replace the old one.
27/06/16 Raviprasad Kamila/The Hindu
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According to J.T. Radhakrishna, director of the airport, modern equipment being installed at the airport now would provide enhanced safe navigation services to flights. The total revamp of air navigational services equipment would cost about Rs. 18 crore and the projects would be completed by March-end 2017.
The airport is in the process of replacing its three main navigation equipment. They are very high frequency omni directional radio range equipment, monopulse secondary surveillance radar and instrument landing system (ILS).
The very high frequency omni directional radio range equipment provided navigational services to flights crossing over Mangaluru in a range of more than 200 nautical miles. Such flights need not land at Mangaluru airport. The equipment is now at Kaikamba about 12 km away from the airport. It was being shifted from there to the premises of the old terminal building at the airport and an advanced equipment valued at Rs. 4 crore would be installed there to replace the old one.
27/06/16 Raviprasad Kamila/The Hindu
