Systems Interface Limited (SIL) has completed a turnkey contract to design, supply, install and commission the replacement Instrument Landing System (ILS) at Jersey Airport in the Channel Islands. The agreement has also seen SIL install Distance Measuring Equipment (DME).
Jersey’s air traffic control team currently manages more than 100,000 flights each year within the 8,300 sq. km, of Channel Islands airspace. In 2018 the airport handled around 1.66 million passengers.
The project management service included an onsite tw0-week manufacturer’s training course ahead of the ILS going in to operational service.
The Normarc 7000 series ILS consists of a two Frequency Dual Transmitter Localizer (LOC) with a 12-element two frequency LOC Antenna system; a two-frequency dual transmitter Glide Path (GP) system and M-array GP antenna system, including monitor mast and a Normarc low power 100W DME including antenna.
The ILS system has full remote control and monitoring and remote maintenance and monitoring systems.
