Riding up the ILS: we count on ILS precision to get us down, but do you...

IFR;  August 1, 2006 ;   Brenneman, Dog;   787 words ......help since DME is often from the localizer antenna. You can get an approximate idea...what it does when you fly over the localizer antenna. You'll see station passage as the...Take a look at the distance to the localizer antenna at the end of the runway on most...

Air Education and Training Command Seeks Equipments

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  August 18, 2008 ;     242 words ......current power supply, alternating current power cord, monopod support, glide slope antenna assembly, two antenna rods, localizer antenna assembly, antenna support assembly, two antenna rods, case assembly, two bayonet neill concelman adapters, two radio frequency...

SPRING GETS WET BLANKET STORM BLAMED FOR DEATH OF I-70 MOTORIST; DENSITY...

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  April 3, 1998 ;   Gutierrez, Hector Fong, Tillie;   516 words ......into each other between Georgetown and the Eisenhower Tunnel. At Denver International Airport, snow that covered a radio ``localizer'' antenna caused a malfunction in the unit's landing operation intended to help pilots deal with poor weather conditions. DIA's north...

Runway work breaks ground.

Tribune-Democrat (Johnstown, PA);  August 2, 2007 ;     369 words ......Gear-hart said. The $1.4 million project, funded mostly through a federal block grant, will include improved lighting, a new localizer antenna and shelter, and the removal of obstructing trees. New Enterprise Stone and Lime Co. is the contractor, L. Robert Kimball...

Approach updates.(ATM)(Instrument landing systems)

Airports International;  August 1, 2005 ;     787 words ......shelters. A key factor in the length of service outage is whether the site conditions allow for construction of the new localizer antenna without disrupting the operation of the original antenna. The Park Air ILS has modern features such as built-in fault diagnostics...

South Bend, Ind., Airport Officials Worry of Construction's Affect on...

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  May 15, 2002 ;     699 words ......according to Schalliol. So now, airport officials are scrambling to come up with a solution. Schalliol said installing a localizer antenna, a device which defines an electronic runway centerline for pilots, would do the job. An engineering crew from the Federal...

Landing System Failure Unsolved at LaX

AP Online;  August 16, 2006 ;     420 words ......until the system is functioning. Zaidman said technicians have not been able to tell whether the problem lies with the localizer antenna array at the end of the runway, the computerized system next to the runway or the cables running between them. Zaidman...

Landing System Failure Unsolved at LAX

AP Online;  August 16, 2006 ;     420 words ......until the system is functioning. Zaidman said technicians have not been able to tell whether the problem lies with the localizer antenna array at the end of the runway, the computerized system next to the runway or the cables running between them. Zaidman...

Effects of runway shift and stay rules on rats' serial pattern learning in...

Learning & Behavior;  November 1, 2004 ;   Cohen, Jerome; Westlake, Kimberly; Szelest, Izabela;   787 words ......stay rule group always received the second R trial when forced down the same runway and the N trial when forced down the opposite runway. In Experiment 2, each rat was conditionally trained with both runway outcome rules as determined by the central alley lighting...

The phantom approach: what? You think just because the approach is...

IFR;  July 1, 2006 ;   McNamee, Jeff;   787 words ......from the east-northeast. This is even more confusing considering how often ATC approves practice VOR/DME approaches to the opposite runway, even while Runway 5 is actively in use. Deland-Taylor is an uncontrolled field and Daytona TRACON may not be aware of what...

Precision Approaches

Plane and Pilot;  July 1, 2004 ;   Anonymous;   754 words ......centerline because of the angular convergence of the signal. If the signal is transmitted along the extended centerline of the opposite runway, it's called a back course. Unless the airborne equipment is of the horizontal situation type or reverse sensing, the pilot...

EIELSON PILOT LANDS LEAKING F-16, RESCUERS PUT OUT FIRE

Regulatory Intelligence Data;  May 14, 1999 ;   INDSTRY GROUP 91;   681 words ......should he miss the approach. I remembered when I left the field the weather was clearer to the north, so I opted to take an opposite runway approach, Bell said. Normally Bell's choice wouldn't matter much. High winds are not the norm in the area, but that day...

KNOW YOUR MADISONIAN: SUSAN STREICH-BOLDT.(DAYBREAK)(KNOW YOUR...

Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI);  February 25, 2007 ;     586 words ......my accordion to an audience of 17,000 in front of UW Band playing, meeting Ken with his accordion as he marched from the opposite runway, Mike Leckrone on a trapeze overhead. It was an experience that I'll never forget. * How I ended up working in this field...