ILS Testing at Dublin Airport
The daa are advising the public about upcoming flight checks which will take place this week as part of Dublin Airport’s mandatory Instrument Landing Systems (ILS) biannual checks. Subject to weather conditions, the flights will take place between 11pm and 4am from Monday, 25th April to Wednesday, 27th April 2022 (three nights), with one night allocated to each of the three runways.
The flights will involve a small twin-engine aircraft taking off and landing using the existing main operational runway, 10R/28L (southern runway). It will then make multiple approaches to both ends of each runway (10R/28L, 16/34 and 10L/28R) at no lower than a height of 100 feet, and then undertake several passes of the runways at around 50 feet.
daa is required to facilitate these flight checks in order to comply with EASA regulations, as directed by the IAA. The next mandatory biannual flight checks are scheduled for October 2022. The North Runway will be opened officially on 24th August this year with operational flights beginning the following morning. The runway will be used on a phased basis initially. The IAA ANSP have submitted all of the Instrument Flight Procedures to the IAA (Regulator) and approval is expected in the coming weeks.
The IAA signed a long term contract with Flight Calibration Services Ltd in January 2021 to Flight Check all their Navaids Country-wide including Dublin, Shannon and Cork.
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