DIAL, Met & AAI take steps to ensure flight ops during fog

Delhi Airport authorities along with the MET department and Airports Authority of India have taken a slew of measures to minimise inconvenience to passengers and ensure continuity of flight operations during low visibility conditions during winters. Apart from providing live flight information, regular updates on flight information display screens, provisions for more aircraft parking stands, equipped with aeronautical ground lighting system for CAT IIIB operations, pre-departure sequencing system for efficient flight operations, making available runway 09/27 for take offs during low visibility procedures, among others are some steps taken by DIAL. “For the first time since taking over the airport, take offs from runway 09/27 with a visibility of 400 meters or more is possible,” DIAL, chief executive officer I Prabhakara Rao said on Wednesday. Besides, MET office has installed 15 Runway visual range devices at the Airport and three new Drishti RVRs will soon arrive as reserve RVRs for Runway 10/28, he said. The three runways 28, 29 and 11 at the IGI Airport are certified for CAT III B operations, which would allow landing of the compliant aircraft with visibility as low as 50 meters.