IndiGo becomes first airline to use indigenous navigation system GAGAN

IndiGo uses GAGAN

• IndiGo becomes the first airline in Asia to land its aircraft using the indigenous navigation system GAGAN. This is a huge leap for Indian Civil Aviation and a firm step toward Aatmanirbhar Bharat, as India becomes the third country in the world to have its own SBAS system after the USA and Japan.
• The flight was conducted using an ATR-72 aircraft and landed at the Kishangarh airport in Rajasthan on April 27, using GPS-aided geo-augmented navigation (GAGAN), which has been jointly developed by the Centre-run Airports Authority of India (AAI) and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).

Published date : 30 Apr 2022 06:14PM