Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

This isnt a strict rule, but its especially common at airports where Air Traffic Control (ATC) staff can control the beacons. However, many airports use photoelectric cells or timers to control their beacons, so ATC staff cant always control them directly.

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VOR Pilot Instrument Landing System Weather 64

Air Facts

MAY 7, 2025

The equipment was often not much modernized from the military days so the pilots likely hoped for good weather as they filed their flight plans. It was common practice for tower controllers to monitor the area control centre enroute frequency. It was a winter night shift in a Western Ontario air traffic control tower.

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Weight-Shift-Control VOR Runway Distance Measuring Equipment 52

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Understanding both traditional and GPS-integrated methods gives you more options in various weather conditions. Consistent instrument scanning and course corrections are required to maintain a precise approach. Unlike an Instrument Landing System (ILS), a VOR approach only provides horizontal guidance.

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VOR Approach Descent Final Approach 52

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.

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Air Traffic Control Approach Runway Instrument Landing System 60

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. Poor weather conditions do not appear to be a factor.

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Final Approach Approach Instrument Landing System Runway 337

World Airline News

JUNE 10, 2025

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Cargo Airline Airlines Jet 52