ENAIRE initiates new satellite navigation-based landing and take-off procedures at Almeria

Aircraft have new alternative to take off or land, independently of ground-based navaids

ENAIRE has initiated new satellite navigation-based approach, arrival and departure procedures at Almeria Airport. The measure entails an improvement for airlines and passengers as aircraft will now have a new alternative to operate, independently of ground-based navaids.

With the newly designed manoeuvres, ENAIRE boosts operational safety and shores up compliance with the Performance Based Navigation (PBN) implementation plan. It also enhances air accessibility at the airport as the procedures do not depend on ground-based navaids and are a real and independent alternative to conventional approaches (which are posited on ground-based navaids). Aircraft must be properly equipped and crew prepared with the necessary instrumentation to roll out the satellite procedures.

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ENAIRE has implemented PBN satellite procedures at two airports in the Aena network in Spain: Seve Ballesteros-Santander Airport (2013) and Almeria Airport (2015), where it was developed at the end of a runway and all ends have since featured this advanced manoeuvre, making it the first airport in Spain to boast satellite-based approach, arrival and departure procedures across all runway ends.

ENAIRE has drafted the pertinent safety studies for the implementation of these new landings and take-offs, which have been checked and approved by Spanish aviation safety agency AESA.

With this action, ENAIRE provides Almeria Airport users with satellite-based arrivals and departures from all current entry and exit points, doing away with the need to increase ground infrastructures, with the subsequent financial savings and operational advantages involved.