ABZ - Longer Runway - CAT III?

[Cough]

Hi,

Any ATC bod know, now that ABZ has a new longer runway, whether there is any push to upgrade the ILS's to CAT II/III?

Ta! (Would help quite a bit at this time of year...)

[Take up the Hold]

I think you will find that EGPF is actually Glasgow
Aberdeen is EGPD

[BOAC]

Oh dear! Let's hope he never gets rostered to fly to ABZ

[Union Jack]

Oh dear! Let's hope he never gets rostered to fly to ABZ ....

.... and that, since he's clearly in a corrective mood, Yahoo!® discovers the difference between an abbreviation and an acronym!

Jack

[Cough]

Clearly never heard of IATA codes... I shall not mention another IATA code like JFK again! (oops, done it again!!)

My question still stands....

[121decimal375]

In response to the first question.....no plans currently to upgrade to CAT III. The upgrade investment does not add up for the bean counters

[Spitoon]

...why not use the ICAO code?

What's wrong with the IATA airport/station code?

And if we are in pedant mood, I'm inclined to think that ABZ is a code rather than an abbreviatio.

[Honey Monster]

And abbreviatio is an abbreviation!

[Spitoon]

It's a fair cop guv'nor! You've got me banged to rights.

In mitigation I would ask you to take into consideration several generous glasses of wine that seem to have disappeared over the evening!

[alphamanic]

ABZ ILS is Cat 3 capable but, there are not the lighting requirements in place for its use

[dontdoit]

Can anyone explain the benefit of extending the runway by 120m, I'm reliably informed it makes c**k all difference to the largest aircraft which regularly operates in & out of there?

[bad bear]

dontdoit, the main benefit is when the runway is wet or contaminated, yes I know it seldom rains there. Some planes have to reduce payload if the runway was forecast wet. On hot days the old 1-11s used to leave pax behind to to runway length.
bb

[alphamanic]

It just means that some of the current operators can also go out more heavily laden. Plus anything to help those Embraers!

[Sir George Cayley]

CAT lll ILS and approach lighting. Interesting point is that a CAT lll autoland only needs the lead off lights at the end as the a/c systems are agnostic wrt the lights.

SGC