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Aéroports de Paris is testing drones at Roissy
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Drones tomorrow at Roissy Charles-de-Gaulle airport? Maybe. Aéroports de Paris (ADP) has decided to test the use of these devices on its airport facilities to inspect the condition of certain buildings and equipment. An operation which requires, for each test, a derogation from the General Directorate of Civil Aviation (DGAC) insofar as the regulations prohibit the overflight of drones above and around airports to avoid any risk of collision with a plane. According to the regulations, drones must be flown on sight and must not go more than 150 meters. In the case of ADP, they will rarely exceed 30 meters, it is said within the manager of Paris airports.
Cost reduction and operational improvement
After a first test in December to inspect the glass roof of the Roissy TGV station, ADP is moving up a gear. A series of tests is planned by the third quarter. Mainly to carry out visual inspection tasks. After feedback, the airport group will decide whether or not to equip itself with drones. The use of the latter can be very interesting insofar as they can make it possible to lower the costs of certain operations but also to improve operational performance by carrying out impossible or complicated things up to now.
Runway inspection
The second phase of testing began on Tuesday with the inspection of smoke detectors located high up in the terminals. The time saving is significant since the inspection by a drone takes about ten minutes when it takes a day with conventional means.
As for the runways, ADP wants to test the drones to inspect the state of the taxiways and then, eventually, the take-off and landing runways. Today, these operations are carried out by personnel who travel on the taxiways in 4x4s. These tests are scheduled for this summer. They will require one of CDG's two runway doublets to be closed. At the same time, Aéroports de Paris would like to inspect the airport's aeronautical easements and radios, areas where no bulky items should be on the premises.
Visual inspection
Should then follow, at the end of the summer or in September, a visual inspection test of the runway lighting on landing. That is to say the setting of the approach instruments (depending on their color the lights indicate to the pilot if the plane is in the right axis of the runway). In addition, a rolling drone (a kind of small car the size of a quad) could be tested in October to measure the intensity of the charges of the bulbs of the approach lights, which are located in the lawn at the edge of the runways. .
Security fence monitoring
Finally, ADP also intends to test drones to inspect aeronautical equipment such as aircraft access walkways. Allowing to overcome a certain number of regulatory constraints, wired drones hold the rope.
Drones could also be used to scare away birds that pose a danger to planes. With sound emitter systems, they could replace current mechanisms and fighter patrols. Discussions are also under way to study the use of drones to inspect security fences.
Fabrice Gliszczynski3 mins
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Comment1 Chicagowrote on 05/15/2015 at 10:47 AMFlagFor once, coming from ADP, it seems like a very good idea to me and we have to recognize their very good grip initiative on the subject by integrating these new technologies in their processes of maintenance, upkeep and verification of information... For once, coming from ADP, it seems to me a very good idea and we must recognize a very good initiative on the subject by integrating these new technologies into their infrastructure maintenance, upkeep and verification processes. des commerces des terminals...
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