Safety
Amphitech talking up runway incursion prevention system
Statistically, if you want to avoid aircraft accidents, stay away from airports.

Statistically, if you want to avoid aircraft accidents, stay away from airports. Fortunately, at least for the runway-incursion portion of the problem, there’s a more practical option on the horizon from Amphitech International. 

Building on its OASys 1852 technology, a Ka-band obstacle awareness radar, the Laval, Quebec company is proposing the Runway Incursion Detection Radar (RIDR). The product, which is still very much in the developmental stage, is expected to help aircraft operators avoid collisions with other aircraft, vehicles and obstacles on the airport surface.

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