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<p>FPL has a policy of retaining a team of highly professional staff
in order to guarantee the quality of its services. Its senior flight
inspection staff is recognized internationally for their technical
competence and the team is second to none in the UK.</p>
<p>FPL’s organization structure is shown in Annex A, FPL.001, Quality
Manual, figure 1. The current establishment comprises 7 navaid flight
inspectors, 3 flight inspection support engineers, 2 flight inspection
calibration engineers, 4 radar flight inspectors, 8 flight inspection
pilots, 6 first officers and 3 part time pilots.</p>
<h2>Aircraft and Flight Inspection Equipment</h2>
<p>FPL currently employs 4 aircraft based at Durham Tees Valley Airport and a back
up aircraft, based in Germany. It also uses a third party aircraft in
the Falkland Islands. These are equipped with flight inspection systems
to provide comprehensive checking and calibration of radio and radar
navigation aids, which include ILS, MLS, DVOR, DME, NDB, TACAN, PAR,
Search Radar, MSSR, and DRDF.</p>
<h3>The Flight Precision aircraft comprise:</h3>
<p>Three Beech King Air 200 aircraft, G-FPLA, G-FPLB, G-FPLD and a
Cessna 441 Conquest 2 aircraft G-FPLC. These are equipped with Aerodata
ADFIS 9 flight inspection systems currently approved to calibrate airfield
ILS to Category 3 using a laser ground tracker unit. One ADFIS system is
capable of flight inspecting MLS, and all systems are capable of carrying
out DGPS flight checking of PAR and military Cat 1 ILS without the ground
tracker unit.</p>
<h3>The backup aircraft comprise:</h3>
<p>A Beech King Air B200T, D-CACB, based at Braunschweig Airport in Germany
operated by, Aerodata Flight Inspection. This aircraft is equipped with an
Aerodata flight inspection system operating to ILS Category 3. A Pilatus
Britten-Norman Islander, VP-FBO, owned by the Falklands Islands Government
Air Service is used to carry out flight checks at Mount Pleasant and
Stanley Airports. This aircraft is equipped on an as needed basis by a
transportable ADFIS system shipped from Durham Tees Valley, operating to ILS Cat 1.</p>
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