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Tyumen airport “Roshchino” became the first airfield in Russia, at which landing aircraft is carried out today using modern GPS / GLONASS systems.
The first such landing, naturally successful in every way, produced Boeing-737 (Siberia Airlines). New navigation the system allows you to land aircraft without ground radio engineering tools. According to experts, this is more accurate and reliable landing of aircraft, which is less dependent on weather conditions and more insured against possible errors.
However, the GPS / GLONASS satellite systems, employees specified airport, despite all their “advancement”, are also not omnipotent. There are certain restrictions, for example, with regard to clouds below 70 m at the lower boundary of clouds and visibility at 900 m on the runway.
While in “Roshchino” such modern navigation will be used only on two runways. This limitation is related to First of all, with the technical capabilities of the airport. And on the other hand, the new requires a good break-in, and it’s better not to in a hurry, believes the leadership of the “air enterprise” of Tyumen.
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