Teknikken går fremover

Noen av oss har vært på Vagar; opp fossen, så til høyre-prosedyre. Selskapet fikk nylig levert sin første A319 som jeg dessverre ikke finner bilde av.
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Atlantic Airways, flag carrier of the Faroe Islands, has claimed to have completed Europe’s “first commercial flight using a pioneering computerised navigation system for take-off and landing”.

The flight, using an A319, departed from the Faroe Islands’ Vágar Airport at 0815 yesterday, bound for Copenhagen on what was the airline’s 24th birthday. It landed back in the Faroe Islands at 1400 with 142 passengers on board.

The RNP-AR (Required Navigation Performance, Authorisation Required) procedures, said an Atlantic statement, uses “sophisticated positioning equipment to enable flight crews to fly an approach or take-off path that replicates the route that would be flown in visual meteorological conditions”.

The airline explained that it had worked with Airbus subsidiary, Quovadis, with “the aim of enhancing safety and optimising service regularity at the Faroes airport, which can be subject to low cloud, poor visibility and turbulence in certain conditions”. It continued, “High terrain at either end of the airport runway requires pilots to fly a non-linear approach path. The RNP-AR 0.1 system developed by Quovadis guides the aircraft along the defined curved flight path, around the obstacles, and ensures that it is aligned with the runway when it reaches the flight crew’s decision height – the height at which the runway must be visible for the landing to be completed”.