"Handsome"
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martin@fspaints.com
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Apr 15, 2003, 8:31 AM
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Re: What is ILS and how is it used?
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As far as I'm aware the "APR" button will only hold you on course for the
runway.
Speed and altitude you have to control yourself.
Martin
"Shane H" <shs@hotmail.nospam.com> wrote in message
news:P0Sma.6686$hF.53713@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
| Lets say I approach the glideslope from below and hit the approach button
on
| the autopilot doing 200 knots.
| My required touchdown speed is 100 knots.
| What controls speed along the glideslope and the required decend rate?
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| The reason I'm asking is because I tried 'approach' on autopilot a number
of
| times but usually the plane would loose the glideslope and I have to turn
| off the autopliot and land manually.
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| ShaneH
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| "donbutts" <donbutts@hotmail.com> wrote in message
| news:59Rma.69155$jE3.1477961@news.xtra.co.nz...
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| > "newuser" <hotstuf2@gate.net> wrote in message
| > news:b7glj9$h17$1@slb2.atl.mindspring.net...
| > > Can it land a plane safely if something wrong happens during flight?
| > > thanks
| > > barry
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| > Instrument Landing system is a frequency beamed from the airport at a
| narrow
| > angle which you have to find and position yourself for. When you are
| > roughly on runway course and little below the required glide slope the
| auto
| > pilot plus the 'approach' switch will catch the course and the glide
slope
| > to bring the aircraft down automatically to the runway threshhold. From
| > there on its normally manual.
| > Don
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