Chandigarh: The Chandigarh international airport would soon be CAT III-B compliant allowing aircraft to land under 50-metre visibility.
All stakeholders, including the Union ministry of civil aviation, Indian Air Force (IAF) and the Airports Authority of India (AAI), have agreed for installation of the much-needed advance instrument landing system (ILS) at the airport.
PLANE
A formal statement regarding the installation of ILS (CAT III-B) was made before the Punjab and Haryana high court on Friday by the agreement division of the ministry of civil aviation through assistant solicitor general of India Chetan Mittal during the resumed hearing of a petition related to facilities at the airport.
Presently, an aircraft requires at least 350-metre visibility to land safely at the airport but due to climatic conditions, most of the flights at the Chandigarh airport remain grounded from December-mid to January-mid.
According to the proposal, the installation work would be undertaken by an agency appointed by the IAF and the AAI would bear the entire cost.
The main runway at the airport has two sides — runway 29 and runway 11. As per the proposal, runway 29 would remain CAT II compliant, while the runway 11 would be upgraded to CAT III-B.
At the high court, Mittal said a meeting was held on December 1, 2015, between the senior officials of the ministry, IAF, AAI and DGCA in which AAI had projected that CAT III-B needs to be installed at the Chandigarh airport. On this it was decided to conduct a joint study to check the feasibility of installing the advance ILS on runway.
A division bench comprising Justice A K Mittal and Justice Amit Rawal asked the AAI to come up with the final plan regarding installation of the ILS-IIIB by April 5.
24/02/18 Times of India
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All stakeholders, including the Union ministry of civil aviation, Indian Air Force (IAF) and the Airports Authority of India (AAI), have agreed for installation of the much-needed advance instrument landing system (ILS) at the airport.
PLANE
A formal statement regarding the installation of ILS (CAT III-B) was made before the Punjab and Haryana high court on Friday by the agreement division of the ministry of civil aviation through assistant solicitor general of India Chetan Mittal during the resumed hearing of a petition related to facilities at the airport.
Presently, an aircraft requires at least 350-metre visibility to land safely at the airport but due to climatic conditions, most of the flights at the Chandigarh airport remain grounded from December-mid to January-mid.
According to the proposal, the installation work would be undertaken by an agency appointed by the IAF and the AAI would bear the entire cost.
The main runway at the airport has two sides — runway 29 and runway 11. As per the proposal, runway 29 would remain CAT II compliant, while the runway 11 would be upgraded to CAT III-B.
At the high court, Mittal said a meeting was held on December 1, 2015, between the senior officials of the ministry, IAF, AAI and DGCA in which AAI had projected that CAT III-B needs to be installed at the Chandigarh airport. On this it was decided to conduct a joint study to check the feasibility of installing the advance ILS on runway.
A division bench comprising Justice A K Mittal and Justice Amit Rawal asked the AAI to come up with the final plan regarding installation of the ILS-IIIB by April 5.
24/02/18 Times of India
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