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| TERRACE STANDARD .

~ Business REVIEW

Society rejects new landing system

THE MOST expensive of
three options to improve the
landing system at the a irpori
has been rejected by the
Terrace-Kitimat airport
sacicly.

That leaves two options
being considered to increase
the chances of aircraft land-
ing in cloudy and inclement
‘Wealliér ‘aid help ‘remove
the stigma attached to the
airport.

These three options came
from a. consultant’s study
completed this spring on be-
half of the society.

‘The rejected option at an
estimated $1.1 ‘million in-
volved new approach light-
ing on the Tunway so pilots
‘could come in and line up
for a landing at a steeper
Tate over. mountainous. ter-
rain south of the airport than
they. do- now, said: airport
manager Darryl] Laurent,

Pilots now descend to 527
feet with a visibility of two
miles by a gradual. descent
approach. If they can’t see
the rumway at that point,
they pull up for what’s
called a missed approach,

A steeper descent could
mean coming down to 200
feet wilh balf a mile of
visibility.

Bul installing the new
lighting is not only ex-
pensive but a steeper de-
scent isn’t something pilots
want to do if they don’t
have to, said Laurent.

**Pilots don’t like it and
it’s not a conifortable ap-
proach for passengers,’ be
added.

One of the remaining two
options, having aircraft use
an on-board global position-
ing system (GPS) is the
cheapest at an estimated
$25,000 cost to the society.

GPS systems are gaining
in popularity among 2 wide
variety of users such as
sailors, bikers and prospec-
tors as they take information
from satellites to determine
exactly where they are,

That also works for air-
craft in terms of telling
pilots exactly where the run-
way is and where their air-

craft is, said Laurent.
While thal’s good, con-

tinued Laurent, it doesn’t §

establish a glide slope, or
descent path, for the aircraft
to follow.

An added complication is J

that AirBC's aircraft don’t
carry GPS equipment and
only a few of Canadian
Regional 's do.

“GPS at some point will
be the absolute end all and
be all but we’re not there
yet,” said Laurent,

He predicted it will be ]

well into the next decade
before all airports in Canada

consider putting in GPS ap- :
NAVGAN manager Monty Caok is looking forward to

proaches and before the
great majority of aircraft
have the system in their
cockpits,

This leaves the remaining
option — moving the air-
port’s two pieces of equip-
ment used now as a landing
system from beside the run-
way to just south of the
main runway.

The localizer tells a pilot
if the aircraft is on track for
the airport while the DME,
or distance measuring
equipment, - tells the pilot
how far away the aircraft is
from the airport

They work fine, says
Laurent, but because they
are ‘beside the runway, a
pilot can’t then make a
slraight in runway approach.

“Right now a pilot comes
in to 527 feet and then looks
to the left to see the run-
way,” said Laurent.

“Tt would improve the
chances of landing if the
localizer/DME was moved
so the aircraft came in right
over top of the runway.'’

“More landings would
take place than there are
now because of weather. It
won't be a perfect solution,
but it will make things bet-
ter,’’ said Laurent.

The consultant’s estimate
is that this kind of approach
would aliow pilots to go as
low as 300 feet with a
visability of one mile.

There’s a projected cost of

$400,000, including a new
localizer and DME.

Out &

About

Building
sags again
CONSTRUCTION | starts

sageed again in July after a:
more promising month in
June.

Just one new house was
slarted, bringing the year’s
total to 12. That's a long
way off the boom years of
the mid 1990s when the city
saw about 80 new homes
built each year.

Renovations, additions,
and carporls and garages
continue to be the main cat-
egories of construction work
approved in town.

The cily issued 18 build-
ing permits in July worth a
total of $470,900. .

That brought total year-to-
date construction to $3.5
million.

That’s down nearly 25 per
cent from $4.49 million to
the same point last year and
i’s way below the $17.4
million at the same time in
1997,

getting a new landing system at the Terrace-Kitimat

airport.

Bul Laurent says there’s
nothing wrong with the ones
already here so the actual
price would be less if this
option was chosen.

“There would have to be
some money spent in
designing and writing the
new approach so that it

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works, the air carriers would
have to accept it and Trans-
port Canada has io approve
it,” said Laurent.

He’s submitting detailed
information on this option,
as well as on the GPS option
to the society for its consid-
eration.

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