Flight Training Central
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
The Instrument Landing System (ILS) is a precision approach and provides both lateral and vertical guidance to a runway. For most general aviation operations, it allows a pilot to descend to as low as 200′ AGL and assist a pilot in locating the runway in as low as 3/8 mile visibility.
Plane and Pilot
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
The plan was to shoot an instrument landing system (ILS) at the military airport next door, but clearance delivery told us they were landing the other direction. Repairs included replacing the pitot tube/angle-of-attack sensor and the outside air temperature probe. Hmm, OK, how about the LPV approach?
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Plane and Pilot
SEPTEMBER 7, 2024
The Legacy General Aviation Fleet The beauty of so many legacy single-engine GA aircraft is that, when cared for properly, their aluminum airframes are quite resilient and resistant to fatigue. Maybe this is due to the slide rule and drafting table generation that designed them. So, what is an aircraft owner-operator to do?
Pilot Institute
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Including how it became the most reliable approach for pilots in aviation history. You might have heard pilots talking about the Instrument Landing Systems (ILS). The ILS is a type of approach pilots use to land. Usually, this is small, light aircraft used in general aviation(single-engine airplanes).
Ask the Pilot
JUNE 28, 2024
More than once… In 2013, a Southwest 737 destined for Branson, Missouri, instead ended up at a small general aviation field nearby, touching down on a runway less than four thousand feet long. But not the same thing as two pilots taking their plane to the wrong destination. Which, I’m the first to admit, has happened.
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