Pelorus Installs Australia's First GPS Ground Station.CALGARY, Alberta--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 30, 1997--Pelorus Navigation (Alberta Stock Exchange Alberta Stock Exchange See Canadian Venture Exchange (CDNX). PN.) Pelorus pe·lo·rus n. pl. pe·lo·rus·es A fixed compass card on which bearings relative to a ship's heading are taken. [Origin unknown.] Navigation Systems Inc. announces that it has installed Australia's first Differential GPS precision approach landing system at Tullamarine Airport, Melbourne, Australia. The system, known as the Honeywell/Pelorus SLS-2000, was developed and is manufactured under a teaming arrangement between Honeywell Inc. in the United States and Pelorus Navigation Systems of Calgary, Alberta. The SLS-2000 ground station transmitted its first differential corrections Thursday, 10 April 1997. Airservices Australia (Airservices) will use the system, along with their flight test aircraft, equipped with Honeywell avionics, to develop precision approach landing standards and recommended practices for Australia. Keith McPherson, Airservices GNSS Augmentation Program Manager commented, "We are delighted that Pelorus and Honeywell have combined resources to install the ground station and airborne system for us to use as a test bed. We will use the system to develop standards for the implementation of local area differential GPS technology as a sole means precision approach and landing system for airports in Australia This is a list of airports in Australia.
It includes licensed airports, with the exception of private airports. ". Peter Bolton, Vice President - Marketing, for Pelorus said, "The results of Airservices test bed efforts will be very influential in the Asia Pacific region and one more step toward realising the potential of this technology, for which the market has been estimated at 48,000 airports world-wide." Flight-testing will commence in May and continue over the next six to eight months. Honeywell has a long history of providing GPS technology for military, air transport and general aviation aircraft. Honeywell has conducted numerous GPS and DGPS (Differential GPS) See GPS augmentation system. flight test demonstrations for aircraft manufactures, the FAA and other certification authorities world-wide. Pelorus designs, manufactures, installs and maintains navigational and meteorological me·te·or·ol·o·gy n. The science that deals with the phenomena of the atmosphere, especially weather and weather conditions. [French météorologie, from Greek systems for airports. The Company offers a full line of products in addition to the Local Area Differential Global Positioning System Global Positioning System: see navigation satellite. Global Positioning System (GPS) Precise satellite-based navigation and location system originally developed for U.S. military use. , the next generation of precision approach and landing technology. Pelorus has headquarters and engineering labs in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and has manufacturing facilities in Calgary and Saskatoon Saskatoon (săskət  n`), city (1991 pop. 186,058), S central Sask., Canada, on the South Saskatchewan River. , Saskatchewan, Canada. Pelorus is a public company trading on the Alberta Stock Exchange, trading symbol Trading symbol See: Ticker symbol PN. -0- Note To Editors: The Alberta Stock Exchange has neither approved nor disapproved the information contained herein. CONTACT: Pelorus Navigation Systems Inc. Peter Bolton, 403/730-5555 www.pelorus.ca |
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