On (14 May 95) Bill Grimsley wrote to Bob Lawrence...



 BG> Bob, at 10:19 on May 12 1995, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...



 BL> I was out at the airport the other day, watching them landing and

 BL> taking off, and on a perfect day with just slight haze, I coul 

 BL> see how easy it would be to use the wrong strip.



 BG> Don't the bigger airports all use ILS now?  If you deviate even marginally

 BG> from the actual approach, all hell breaks loose.



dinosaur technology boy! we were using ils to lock autopilots for

autolandings 30 years ago. trouble is that ils needs long straight

approaches the more modern systems like interscan let you have much more

flexible approach patterns.



                        Keith



... Excuse me for butting in, I'm interrupt-driven.



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