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instrument landing system
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instrument landing system (ILS)

Landing aid for aircraft that uses radio beacons on the ground and instruments on the flight deck. One beacon (localizer) sends out a vertical radio beam along the centre line of the runway. Another beacon (glide slope) transmits a beam in the plane at right angles to the localizer beam at the ideal approach-path angle. The pilot can tell from the instruments how to manoeuvre to attain the correct approach path.
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Descent on the glide slope was described by the copilot as being made in "heavy turbulence.
On the runway, please! by Wilbur, Ted / Naval Aviation News
In the last few seconds, you have done about all you can do with the first two parameters, so you narrow your focus to an optical glide-slope device on the left side of the ship and make throttle adjustments to keep yourself as perfectly centered on the glide slope as you can.
Snow peas: the surest cure for buck fever may be found in the cockpit ... by Dean, Mickey / Bowhunter
In the final phase of the simulations, the test team forced errors in the glide slope, speed and line-up to see how quickly the aircraft could make corrections, officials said.
X-35C A SUCCESS IN NAVY TESTING by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
 
 
 
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