Al4 - The Terrace Stondard, Wednesday, January 15, 2003.

New aircraft landing system
gaining rave reviews so far

THERE hasn’t been a single missed flight at Terrace’s
airport since an Instrument Landing System was activa.
ted Nov. 28.

Officials had hoped the new landing system would cut
by at least 80 per cent the number of flights that have to
divert to Prince Rupert or Vancouver because of bad
weather.

But no one forecast a perfect record in the first six
weeks under ILS: “It’s been good,” said Northwest Re-
gional Airport manager Rick Reed.

He said there were several days during December in
which poor visibility ordinarily would have meant mis-
sed flights.

The very first day the system was activated flights
used it to descend through poor conditions to land on
schedule.

Eight flights were missed due to bad weather in No-
vember prior to the power up of ILS.

The system means a virtual end, officials hope, to the
historic uncertainty of flying into Terrace — particularly
in the winter. —

The airport typically logs 140 missed flights per year,
many of them in the winter months.

The ILS guides the incoming 2 aircraft down on a beam
provided by two signats. One is a horizontal indicator,
another a vertical or plide path indicator. Put together
they form crosshairs a pilot lines up to precisely descend
to the airport.

Before the ILS here, pilots had to abort their landing
allempt if they couldn’t see the runway at an altitude of

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4 The ILS allows aircraft to follow
4 the beam down to as low as 250
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=| likely.

Its effectiveness comes as a relief
for the Terrace-Kitimat airport soc-
‘| iety, which runs the airport.

iB It bent to demands from Nav Cana-

B year after the federal air navigation
agency threatened to shelve the

Rick Reed
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