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A collection of discrete radio navigation aids used by pilots of all types of aircraft for approach guidance to a specific airport runway, especially...



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Figure 1.Components of instrument landing system (ILS), and resulting signals used by the pilot. (Federal Aviation Administration)
From Encyclopedia article 'Instrument landing system (ILS)'
Figure 2.Signal distribution space patterns for carrier-plus-sideband (CSB) energy and sideband-only (SBO) energies. (a) Localizer patterns in horizontal plane. (b) Glide-slope patterns in vertical plane. Angles are exaggerated.
From Encyclopedia article 'Instrument landing system (ILS)'