Approach Cockpit Instrument Landing System 
Ask Captain Lim
JULY 13, 2025
Before entering the cockpit, pilots conduct a thorough pre-flight inspection of the aircraft, ensuring everything from the engines to the emergency systems is functioning properly. At the same time, they coordinate with cabin crew, dispatchers and engineers to confirm all systems are in order. Weather plays a crucial role.
Fear of Landing
JANUARY 17, 2025
On approach, the captain made a mayday alert, declaring bird strike, bird strike. The landing gear failed to deploy and the Boeing landed on its belly, skidding some 250 metres off the runway before crashing into a concrete platform used for the airports Instrument Landing System antennae.
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Plane and Pilot
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
When you’re starting to feel human again after major surgery, what’s a good plan for getting safely back into the cockpit? 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. I had a total knee replacement.
Flight Training Central
JULY 12, 2024
This identifies the critical area for the instrument landing system, located near the ILS antenna array, where an airplane on the ground (or vehicle) in that space could interfere with the radio signals for airplanes flying an ILS instrument approach.
Pilot Institute
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
The ILS approach has revolutionized aviation and the types of weather we can fly in. 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.
Plane and Pilot
SEPTEMBER 7, 2024
Ask the front porch gang at the local airport which is better, a “six-pack” full of traditional round dial instruments or a bright new glass cockpit screen, and the answers will be all over the map. So, the answer to the question— round dials or glass cockpit ?—is Round Dials or Glass Cockpits: Which Is Easier to Fly?
Aerotime
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
2024, a Boeing 737-400 freighter operated by Swift Air of Spain on behalf of global logistics giant DHL crashed on final approach into Vilnius Airport (VNO) in Lithuania, the aircraft’s intended destination. However, while ATC had transmitted a landing clearance to the crew of BCS18D, no meaningful response was received.
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