New ILS for Runway 7 at Chennai airport

NEW DELHI: Airports Authority of India in pursuit of augmenting the air navigation services for safety of the aircraft and travelling public has replaced the existing Instrument Landing System (ILS)AT Chennai International airport at a cost of Rs 5 crores.

The ILS provides the necessary guidance to the pilots while they approach for landing at the runway. The state of the art equipmentis manufactured by M/s Indranavia AS, Norway.

The new ILS will facilitate smooth landing of the aircrafts at Chennai Airport even during rain, low clouds, smog etc and provide an improved guidance to the Aircrafts. The new system uses an antenna which is highly directional “Wide Aper- ture Log Periodic Antenna Array [LPDA]” system.

This antenna system has also mitigated the coverage restrictions of old ILS, thereby, providing guidance to the aircraft to a much lower height with improved precision and enhanced safety during landing phase of the aircraft.

The complete installation, alignment, testing,flight inspection and commissioningof the new Instrument Landing Systemhas been done in-house by AAI'S CNS Technical Experts.

The Airports Authority of India or AAI under the Ministry of Civil Aviation is responsible for creating, upgrading, maintaining and managing civil aviation infrastructure in India. NEW DELHI: Ajay N Deshpande, Director (Technical), EIL has been entrusted with additional charge of Chairman & Managing Director, EIL. He assumed the office w.e.f. November 1, 2017. Director (Technical) since April, 2013, He is responsible for Technology, Engineering, R&D and Sustainability activities. He is a member of the MOP&NG Steering Committee on Make in India and anchors the Startup India initiative of the Company.