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    In aviation, an instrument approach or instrument approach procedure (IAP) is a series of predetermined maneuvers for the orderly transfer of an aircraft...
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    the instrument landing system (ILS) is a precision radio navigation system that provides short-range guidance to aircraft to allow them to approach a runway...
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    to fly to arrive at an initial approach fix (IAF) from which an instrument approach commences. An instrument approach terminates either by the pilot acquiring...
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  • Look up approach in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Approach may refer to: Visual approach Instrument approach Final approach Approach (album), by Von...
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  • (RNAV) approach plates include LNAV as a non-precision instrument approach (NPA). When combined with VNAV, the resulting instrument approach, LNAV/VNAV...
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    Approach plates (or, more formally, instrument approach procedure charts) are the printed or digital charts of instrument approach procedures that pilots...
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  • The Initial Approach Fix (IAF) is the point where the initial approach segment of an instrument approach begins. An instrument approach procedure may...
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    outward from the runway end. ALS usually serves a runway that has an instrument approach procedure (IAP) associated with it and allows the pilot to visually...
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    For instrument approaches, as well as approaches into a controlled airfield under visual flight rules (VFR), often a "straight-in" final approach is used...
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  • Localizer type directional aid (category Aircraft instruments)
    localizer type directional aid (LDA) or Instrument Guidance System (IGS) is a type of localizer-based instrument approach to an airport. It is used in places...
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    Missed approach is a procedure followed by a pilot when an instrument approach cannot be completed to a full-stop landing. The instructions for the missed...
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    In aviation, a visual approach is an approach to a runway at an airport conducted under instrument flight rules (IFR) but where the pilot proceeds by visual...
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  • determine airspace, obstacle clearance and visibility requirements for instrument approaches.: II-5-1-3  The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)...
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    Captain Albert Francis Hegenberger, was used to fly the world's first instrument approach on May 9, 1932. NDBs used for aviation are standardised by the International...
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  • A contact approach is an approach available to aircraft operating on an instrument flight rules (IFR) flight plan, where the pilot may deviate from the...
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  • crash. On the morning of September 11, 1974, while conducting an instrument approach in dense ground fog into Douglas Municipal Airport in Charlotte,...
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  • information provided during an instrument approach, independently of ground-based navigation aids in the context of an approach and a form of vertical guidance...
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    At the time of the accident, Runway 23L had full instrument approach equipment, including an instrument landing system (ILS), while Runway 23R did not.: 106 ...
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    terminal airspace. Approach concepts cover all segments of the instrument approach, i.e. initial, intermediate, final, and missed approach. The RNP APCH specifications...
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    Airport has one instrument approach procedure approved and published by the Federal Aviation Administration. The RNAV (GPS) RWY 32 approach is documented...
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    city in 1947. The airport has three documented instrument approach procedures, making it a popular instrument training area. Localizer Runway 02 (requires...
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    and 34 other people, including corporate CEOs. While attempting an instrument approach to Dubrovnik Airport, the airplane crashed into a mountainside. An...
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  • guidance (LPV) are the highest precision GPS (SBAS enabled) aviation instrument approach procedures currently available without specialized aircrew training...
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  • non-precision instrument approach in inclement weather, the aircraft's right main landing gear failed to extend and the captain decided to continue the approach while...
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  • routing and includes an instrument approach at each airport so that a total of three different kinds of instrument approaches are performed. The candidate...
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  • is a localizer-based instrument non-precision approach to an airport, which provides final approach course similar to instrument landing system (ILS)...
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  • for designing instrument approach and departure procedures. Such procedures are used to allow aircraft to land and take off when instrument meteorological...
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    An instrument landing system localizer, or simply localizer (LOC, or LLZ prior to 2007), is a system of horizontal guidance in the instrument landing system...
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  • operated by Springer Aerospace Ltd. The airport has a published instrument approach. Bar River Water Aerodrome Canada Flight Supplement. Effective 0901Z...
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    Charlotte/Douglas International Airport in 1974 while conducting an instrument approach in dense fog. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) concluded...
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