DTW using controversial landing system once again, more air traffic controllers sounding alarm
The 7 Investigators were the first to expose a dangerous landing practice at Detroit Metro Airport. So why is the airport using the system again right now?
and last updated 2021-06-30 18:24:17-04
(WXYZ) â The 7 Investigators were the first to expose a dangerous landing practice at Detroit Metro Airport.
So why is the airport using the system again right now?
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For certain landings at Detroit Metro Airport, some pilots have to approach at an angle on the western-most runway.
To do that, they use an antenna system called an Instrument Landing System (ILS) Yankee offset localizer. Itâs most often used when the airport is trying to run triple approaches on its runways to increase capacity.
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Metro Airport photo Vincent Surgent, a recently retired air traffic controller and whistleblower, is alleging that an erratic guidance system for planes landing on one of Metro Airport’s runways is unsafe, particularly in bad weather. Bill Laitner of the Detroit Free Press reports: Federal aviation officials stopped using the system in 2015, after less than a year of operation. But they resumed using it in 2018. In an official statement, the Federal Aviation Administration told the Free Press last week that it would keep using the system because the agency had put safeguards in place. But those safeguards were deemed inadequate in a high-level report, which was recently sent to President Donald Trump by the U.S. Office of Special Counsel. The report said that although the FAA tried to discredit air traffic controller Vincent Sugent, his concerns were fully supported by a detailed review of the FAA s own studies, as well as by the problems some pilots have encountered w