Air Traffic Control Clearance Instrument Landing System 
Ask the Pilot
JUNE 28, 2024
” Most of the time, jetliners land using what we call an ILS (instrument landing system) in which controllers guide us onto a pair of radio beams — one vertical, the other horizontal — that form a sort of crosshair that we track to the runway, either manually or by coupling the ILS to the plane’s autoflight system.
Aerotime
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
At this late stage, all appeared normal with the aircraft seemingly in the correct profile for landing on runway 19 and telling ATC it was established on the ILS (Instrument Landing System) for runway 19. However, while ATC had transmitted a landing clearance to the crew of BCS18D, no meaningful response was received.
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