Connecticut’s Bradley International Airport is the staging ground for a next-generation flight system using technology developed by Fairfield-based General Electric Co., The Associated Press reports.
An American Airlines flight using required navigation performance, an advanced system allowing planes to navigate on their own, is due in at Bradley from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport on Thursday.
Naverus Inc. co-founder Steve Fulton says the new navigation system is the first to be commercially developed. Naverus is a part of GE Aviation, a unit of General Electric.
The landing procedure allows pilots to use onboard technology to follow a precise track independent of aging ground-based navigation beacons.
The procedure will enable airliners to land at Bradley during periods of low clouds and visibility that previously barred landings.
