Kingfisher Airlines deploys Autoland to deal with fog

Kingfisher Airlines has become the first private airline in India to receive a certification to operate its flights in poor visibility using the sophisticated Autoland Systems in the highest Category IIIA instrument landing system. Since every single Airbus aircraft in the airline’s fleet is equipped with Autoland Systems capable of executing Category IIIA landings, all Kingfisher Airlines flights operating into and out of fog-affected cities, such as New Delhi, are capable of landing and taking off in fog and consequent poor visibility, an airline release said. A Category IIIA approach allows an aircraft to land with runway visibility as little as 200 metres and a minimum decision height of 50 feet using Autoland Systems. Landing categories are broken down by minimum cloud heights also known as the ceiling and the amount of horizontal visibility.

There is an internationally adopted scale of categories which describes the landing guidance system. Category I is the least demanding and Category II and Category III are progressively more demanding in terms of the aircraft avionics, crew training and the quality of ground equipment among other things. Planes are typically guided in safely by giving the commander of the aircraft a landing approach flight path and an angle of descent. Commenting on this new milestone, Kingfisher Airlines chairman and CEO, Mr Vijay Mallya said: "The decision to equip our entire fleet with enhanced avionics and to deploy cutting-edge flight management systems was motivated by our appreciation of the value that our guests place on their time."

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