Daxing Airport will introduce several new aircraft technologies when it opens by the end of the month. For example, it will become the first in China to use a four-level advanced ground guidance system The system can automatically identify the potential conflicts of the aircraft running on the runway and taxiway and issue an alarm.
Daxing will also introduce the inbound and outbound sequencing (AMAN/DMAN) function for the first time in the country to sort incoming and outgoing flights, thereby reducing airplane hovering and runway waiting. At the same time, the airport’s dual-polarization millimeter-wave cloud radar can make high-precision observations of clouds, fog, snow, and weak precipitation within 60 kilometers of the airport, and obtain data such as cloud height and water content. Developed by a research institute under the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation, the radar can look deep into a cloud, measure its speed, and display a much larger scanning range, all the while allowing the user to establish a three-dimensional cloud map to clearly notify affected flights in advance, said Zhou Tingting, the chief designer of the radar.
The airport is the first in China to allow aircraft equipped with head-up displays to take off with an RVR of 75 meters. It also comes equipped with instrument landing capability, allowing pilots to land to a minimum of 50 meters visibility.
The North China Air Traffic Control Bureau has built an air traffic control system consisting of 173 air control seats and covering three major airports—two in Beijing and one in Tianjin. It will rank as the largest air traffic control system in the world.
Finally, Daxing adopts the omnidirectional configuration of three vertical and one horizontal, marking the first cross-runway operation in China. The airport can handle more than 250 takeoffs and landings per hour on four runways. It expects that number to reach 300 under future plans.