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ILS Explained (With Examples)

Pilot Institute

Marker Beacons These days, the ILS is generally paired with a DME (Distance Measuring Equipment). It allows the pilots to compare their height at each DME distance to the promulgated chart. They are as follows: Category A: Less than 91 knots. Category B: 91 knots to less than 121 knots.

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Navigating Instrument Failure at 10,000 Feet

Fear of Landing

Surface winds are already thirty knots gusting to forty-five. Forecast much stronger, up to one hundred knots.” One hour out, our ground speed is an absurdly slow: seventy knots as indicated by our distance measuring equipment (DME). “My calculations agree with the DME readout of seventy knots.”

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