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EUROCONTROL starts wake vortex measurement at Paris "Charles De Gaulle" airport

Brétigny-sur-Orge, France - As part of a joint study

As part of a joint study of the wake turbulence dependence of closely spaced parallel runway operations, EUROCONTROL, Aéroport de Paris (ADP) and the French Direction des Services de la Navigation Aérienne (DSNA) have installed a pulsed lidar on the roof of the KBIS tower between Terminals 2A and 2C at Paris "Charles De Gaulle" airport. The lidar – a WindTracer® from Lockheed Martin Coherent Tech...

fra/pec - 1073609
Rome, Italy, 05/11/2007 16:15
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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