Frankfurt Airport: Approach system should make landings softer – Handelsblatt

A new system should allow more precise in Frankfurt and steeper approaches. Source: dpa

Frankfurt / Main As the first international hub in Europe at the Frankfurt airport takes the satellite-based landing system GBAS in operation. As reported by the operator Fraport the new technology of this Wednesday (September 3) to allow for more precise and steeper approaches to using the GPS tracking system. In the long term should be reduced as well as aircraft noise. GBAS stands for “Ground Based Augmentation System” (ground-based augmentation system).

At the airports, Newark and Houston (both USA) and Sydney (Australia), it is already working. In Germany it has been tested in Bremen. The cost for the construction of the ground station Fraport has estimated at about five million euros. Lufthansa and the German air traffic control are partners.

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long term, help to reduce noise pollution around the largest German airport the new system. Because the aircraft can with him at an angle of 3.2 degrees – instead of 3.0 degrees with the current instrument landing system ILS – control the runways. So far, only modern wide-body aircraft such as the A380 and Boeing 747-8 are technically equipped accordingly.