Flight Inspection Service Gets Passengers Home In 2010

Flight Inspection Service Gets Passengers Home in 2010

MEDIA RELEASE

4 January 2010

Airservices Flight Inspection Service (FIS) will check critical air navigation equipment this January to ensure that passengers make it back safely from their holidays in the New Year.

Checking the functional accuracy of the equipment is critical to the safety of Australia's flying public.

The Brisbane-based service checks the 500 plus navigational aids installed by Airservices for flight safety at regional and major airports, aerodromes and airstrips on a three-year rotational basis.

The service will undertake 33 separate routine or special flight inspections on equipment at:

QLD Brisbane, Amberley, Barcaldine, Mount Isa, Oakey, Bymaroo, Roma
NT Tennant Creek, Alice Springs, Simpsons Gap, Wallaby
WA Perth, Albany, Pingelly, Parkerville, Caversham, Warburton, Giles.

Equipment being tested includes instrument landing systems (ILS), distance measuring equipment (DME), non-directional beacons (NDB) and VHF Omni Range (VOR) navigational aids.

Positional and navigational information is relayed from these aids to aircraft and assists pilots in landing safely.

The inspections will be performed by specialist aircrew who operate twin-engine Beechcraft King Air aircraft and equipment to collect precision data while airborne.

Data gathered is assessed and analysed by Airservices maintenance and engineering specialists to ensure each navigation aid is operating accurately.

For media enquiries or an image of the King Air and its equipment call 02 6257 2828 or email [email protected]

Airservices Australia is a Government owned organisation responsible for the safe and efficient management of air traffic across 11 per cent of the world's air space. Services include air traffic control, airspace management, aeronautical information, radar communications, radio navigation aids, aviation maintenance and engineering, environmental management and aviation rescue and firefighting.


SOURCE: Airservices Australia