Frankfurt Airport to Conduct Overnight Instrument Landing System Tests
Translated from German and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.
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- Frankfurt Airport will permit overnight surveying flights from Thursday through Saturday to test the southern runway’s instrument landing system.
- The flights are scheduled between 11 p.m. and 3 a.m. to verify signals needed for safe approaches from both the east and west.
- The German air navigation service says it will use a Beechcraft Super King Air 350 and try to limit disruption for residents.
Frankfurt Airport will make an exception to its usual ban on night flights so a specialized aircraft can check the instrument landing system on the southern runway.
The surveying flights are expected to run from Thursday through Saturday, according to Germany’s air navigation service, DFS. They will test the precision of signals used to guide aircraft during landings, including approaches arriving from both the west and the east.
The flights are planned for between 11 p.m. and 3 a.m. DFS said it would try to avoid flying over populated areas as much as possible to reduce disruption for nearby residents.
The aircraft assigned to the work is a Beechcraft Super King Air 350 turboprop. If technical or weather-related delays prevent the flights from taking place during the planned period, DFS has set an alternative window from Sept. 11 to 13.
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Originally published by Die Zeit in German. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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