{"id":427381,"date":"2021-07-26T08:51:32","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T03:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=427381"},"modified":"2021-07-26T10:39:36","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T05:09:36","slug":"cat-3-installation-found-unviable-at-chandigarh-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/cat-3-installation-found-unviable-at-chandigarh-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"CAT-3 installation found unviable at Chandigarh airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The long wait for a CAT-3 instrument landing system (ILS) at the Chandigarh International Airport has ended in authorities finding it unviable. <\/p>\n<p>With obstructions in the airfield, installation of the system is not possible, which means cancellation of flights amid heavy fog in the winter will continue.<\/p>\n<p>A radio navigation system, ILS provides pilots short-range guidance to land in poor visibility conditions. Over the years, fog and inclement weather have been hitting operations at the Chandigarh airport every winter.<\/p>\n<p>An aircraft requires at least 100-metre visibility to land safely. At present, the airport has a CAT-2 system, which works only till as low as 350-metre visibility. The CAT-3 system permits flight operations even when visibility drops to as low as 50 metres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The long wait for a CAT-3 instrument landing system (ILS) at the Chandigarh International Airport has ended in authorities finding it unviable. With obstructions in the airfield, installation of the system is not possible, which means cancellation of flights amid heavy fog in the winter will continue. A radio navigation system, ILS provides pilots short-range guidance to land in poor visibility conditions. Over the years, fog and inclement weather have been hitting operations at the Chandigarh airport every winter. An aircraft requires at least 100-metre visibility to land safely. At present, the airport has a CAT-2 system, which works only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}