Article: How will you land tomorrow? Continuous technology progress for conventional and satellite-based navigational aids improves safety both in the air and on landing.(ATM)(Instrument Landing System)(Microwave Landing System)(Ground Based Augmentation System)

The first navigation systems were developed more than one hundred years ago and patents as early as 1907 laid the foundation for the generation of navigational aids as we know them today. Now and certainly in the future three possible precision landing technologies will co-exist.

Firstly the instrument Landing System (ILS), which has been at the forefront of navigational aids and is the basis for today's conventional-based navigational systems. The ILS provides pilots with deviation information from a defined approach path down to and along the runway surface under low visibility conditions. With its continuous improvements, the ILS represents the most common landing aid ...

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