"Loganair has taken the next step on its journey to reduce the environmental impact of flying through a groundbreaking partnership with the Met Office and FLYHT Aerospace.
The UK’s largest regional airline has joined forces with the national weather service and aviation hardware specialists FLYHT in a project that aims to improve the accuracy of weather forecasts and reduce flight emissions.
The innovative partnership is the first of its kind on this scale in the UK and will see all 13 Loganair Embraer 145s fitted with cutting-edge FLYHT-WVSS-II atmospheric water vapour sensors to measure weather data for the Met Office.
The sensors will routinely monitor environmental conditions around the aircraft during flight and provide a network of unprecedented scale for gathering invaluable meteorological information via Loganair’s Embraer fleet, which flies three to four times daily across the airline’s unique UK routes.
One of the key benefits of this initiative is its potential to increase understanding of the non-CO2* effects of aviation, which are estimated to contribute to around 48% of the environmental impact of flying."
Loganair joins with the Met Office and FLYHT to power revolutionary sustainable aviation research
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