The Navigation Department  is responsible for the systems used by the flight controllers and the pilots, for purposes of location, identification, control, separation of aircraft in the air and, from ground obstacles, redirecting from areas of bad weather and identification of seasonal migration of birds.

The Department has two departments: Navigation and Radar, and it employs 20 engineers and practical engineers with expertise in specific electronic fields.

The systems serving the flight controllers

§         Radio system for communications with aircraft.

§         Radar systems providing radar data such as: Three dimensional location of the aircraft, call sign and electronic distress signals.

§          Automatic systems for radar data processing. The systems collate the data, process it, display the weighting of the data and automatically alert of excessive proximity of aircraft to each other or of excessive proximity of aircraft to ground obstacles.

§         Directional finding systems displaying the angle location of the aircraft.

§         Meteorological display system used for decision making, regarding the method of operation of the Airport in accordance with weather conditions, for example: Selecting a runway based on wind strength.

Systems serving pilots:

The electronic navigation systems covering the country’s air space, and the access corridors to Israel. These systems enable flight in a pre-defined corridor in order to facilitate safe flight along known routes without the danger of aviation collisions or penetration into restricted areas.

Instrument Landing Systems. These systems facilitate landing in bad weather conditions when visibility is almost zero. The systems guide the aircraft to landing, in a such a manner that it will touch down at the edge of the runway, even if the pilot does not have visual contact with the runway.