test flight
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ENAC Press Releases
VOLCANIC CLOUD: ENAC orders ENAV reconnaissance flight through ITALIAN airspace
ENAC (National Civil Aviation Authority) has authorized the ENAV (Italian Company for Flight Assistance) to conduct a reconnaissance flight this morning to check the status of Italian airspace directly affected by the volcanic cloud from Iceland .
The flight is made with a Cessna Citation 2 from Department of Radiomisure Enav, with crew commanded by the same company Flight Operations Manager.
The route of the mission arranged by ENAC ENAV provides the flight has departed from Ciampino airport in the morning today, the continuation of the aircraft on the route Bolsena-Ferrara, with stabilization at various altitudes and an approach to the airport of Venice Tessera, go around, then an approach to Milan Linate airport, from where, also without landing, will return to Ciampino at various altitudes through Italian airspace along the Pisa and Grosseto route.
After this reconnaissance flight, the Cessna Citation 2 Enav be conducted in the maintenance hangar for Ciampino to be carefully inspected, the engines will be excavated and analyzed to verify their status and the presence of wear particles of volcanic cloud even motor oil.
The President of ENAC, Vito Riggio, also asked the Head of Department for Civil Defence, Guido Bertolaso, to be available as soon as possible - through the Italian Institute of Volcanology - special sensors capable of detecting and measuring the presence of volcanic ash high, not detectable by radar. This is to collect as soon as further data and analysis elements can complement those of the bulletin and the European Community level mathematical models provided by Eurocontrol.
Rome, 18/04/2010