Air Traffic Control Instrument Landing System Runway 
Air Facts
MAY 7, 2025
It was a winter night shift in a Western Ontario air traffic control tower. One controller on duty was the norm on most snowy nights when most of the flying activities had ended for the day. I was the one lonely controller with the console lights turned down low monitoring the area control centre frequency.
Pilot Institute
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
This type of approach is a non-precision instrument procedure that uses ground-based radio signals to guide you safely to a waypoint or the runway, even when visibility is poor. Unlike an Instrument Landing System (ILS), a VOR approach only provides horizontal guidance. Look for the runway once you reach the MDA.
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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. Only a few months earlier, a 747 freighter operated by Atlas Air found itself at the wrong airport in Kansas.
Aerotime
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
After departure from Leipzig’s runway 26L, the aircraft headed north and then eastwards, climbing to 33,000ft (10,300m) and crossing the German/Polish border at 03:26, around 18 minutes after take-off. However, while ATC had transmitted a landing clearance to the crew of BCS18D, no meaningful response was received.  
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