Calibration of a nation

Flying with Airservices’s Flight Inspection Service

The blue and white King Air making a high speed ‘clean’ approach and then performing a go-around from 50ft AGL is a common site at Australian airports. And for good reason – it’s all in the name of safety.

Airservices Australia, the provider of air traffic management services throughout Australia, is responsible for regularly conducting flight calibration inspections on approximately 500 navigational aids (navaids) using two specially equipped Beechcraft King Airs. Airservices’s Flight Inspection Service (FIS) continually calibrates Australian, and some overseas, navaids on a three year rotational basis to ensure these vital pieces of navigation and safety equipment are operating within the required high tolerances.