Honeywell to Supply LAAS Systems to Frankfurt, Memphis and Seattle

Three more airports are slated to get Honeywell SLS-3000 local area augmentation system ground stations, also known as a ground-based augmentation system. They are to be installed at Frankfurt-am-Main in Germany, as well as at the Memphis, Tennessee and Seattle-Tacoma airports. The system provides differential global positioning system navigation and allows for Category I precision approaches. The Memphis installation was made possible by the teaming of Honeywell with FedEx, which will use the facility as a certification base to allow it to start local area augmentation system at various U.S. airports. "Our SLS-3000 LAAS ground station enables the design of complex approaches and other flight procedures that minimize delays, flight time, airspace required for landing and noise impacts on airport neighborhoods," said Ed Wheeler, VP and general manager for Honeywell's airport systems. By early 2002, Honeywell hopes to have full public use authority for its SLS-3000 system. A limited private use authority already has been granted.