Air Berlin’s Boeing 737 fleet chief and pilot Michail Tounas says a hybrid approach the German carrier is using at Innsbruck airport “combines the best of both worlds” between traditional radio-based ...

The Martha's Vineyard ILS approach involves specific considerations like a direct transition from the Nantucket (ACK) VOR (NoPT) and the importance of correctly identifying the DME source as IMVY ...

French investigation authority BEA believes the prevalence of ILS approaches has obscured an underlying vulnerability of aircraft to the risk of terrain collision arising from incorrect altimeter ...

Singapore says the instrument flight procedures for both the northerly and southerly approaches into the republic’s Seletar Airport are necessary to ensure safety. (Wikipedia pic) Singapore said it ...

Instrument procedures, like ILS approaches, allow pilots to fly very close to the ground in clouds. This is particularly critical when decision altitudes or heights are as low as 100 to 200 feet above ...

Thales recently won an FAA award for up to 300 ILS systems, to be installed between 2007 and 2013. Many will replace older equipment, but at least 100 systems will provide precision approaches at new ...