Satellite-Based System at Chennai Airport
Posted on: 20/Mar/2014 4:26:18 PM
Soon the Chennai airport will get to launch the GPS-Aided Geo- Augmented Navigation (GAGAN) system.
Chennai has been selected for the pre-launch try outs of this satellite-based system. Through this system, the imperative navigational information will be diffuse to the pilots during the flight take-off as well as during landing time, said a senior official at the Airports Authority of India.
Through its route optimizing process, it helps in reducing the holding time of 20-30 minutes of flights during the peak hours. By avoiding the holding time, helps airlines to conserve a minimum of 600Kg of Aviation Turbine Fuel (value around Rs.55, 000), he added.
Keeping the safety as vital, this system will facilitate the data’s on the topography as well as the traffic to the Air Traffic Controllers and pilots.GAGAN will help in standardizing the routes in order to free the flights from dense clouds, traffic and sterile sky zones, via broadcasting real time traffic and weather data to ATCs and pilots.
GAGAN helps in saving nearly Rs 80,000 value of ATF with the aid of optimized routes and takes away the holding time at the destination; thus installing satellite-based antennae, each costing around Rs 75 lakh, for GAGAN will not be a problem, said an AAI Official.
