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New Radar and Approach Lights At The Juan
Santamaría (San Jose) Airport
New Radar and Approach Lights At The Juan
Santamaría (San Jose) Airport
It has only been five years, but finally the
Juan Santamaría (San Jose) international
airport will be getting the badly needed
approach lights that will eliminate the many
detoured flights common in foggy weather.
Rosaura Montero, viceministra de Transportes,
confirmed that her ministry will be
investing ¢1.5 billion colones for the
lights.
The approach lighting system are designed to
smooth the transition from instrument to
visual flight in conditions of low cloud or
reduced visibility. The longitudinal array
of lights that spans about 900 metres from
the runway provides a lead into the runway
centreline, while later bars provide a roll
reference.
Pilots, mainly from the US airlines, citing
safety concerns, continually refuse to land
at night in dense fog or low cloud
conditions, which are common in San Jose
during the rainy or winter months, causing
many flights to be diverted to Liberia or
Panama.
The new approach light system will greatly
reduce the number of cancelled and divered
flights.
The Juan Santamaría has also been operating
a new radar control system that allows air
traffic controllers at the airport expand
their control the skies from San Jose from a
60 mile radius to 212 miles.
The new radar system already in operation
ties in with the radar tower in Mata de Caña,
in Guanacaste and in Managua and Bluefields,
in Nicaragua.
The expanded radar allows controllers to
have more information on incoming flights,
as well record digitally flight information
and conversations. The cost of the new radar
system is ¢3 billion colones.
Airport officials reassure that the Juan
Santamaría has always been a safe and secure
airport, however, with the new radar system
and approach lighting, controllers can know
more about each airplane in the sky and
pilots can know the exact location of the
runway in relation to the aircraft, in bad
weather.
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