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Old 30th May 2010, 10:21
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If you then turned around to fly the back course in bound to the reciprocal runway, the LOC sense will still appear to be correct.
Thanks! I assume that this is because the instrumentation automatically reverses the indications?

But what has changed, other than aircraft track (in relation to selected front course), to tell the aircraft instrumentation to swap loc sense?.

Here's a diagram (Not sure where I got it from, so apologies to the person who created it)



If the airplane is parked at "C" (still in the reception area), with the ILS front course entered, how does the aircraft know it isn't at "B"? Won't the instrumentation change the loc sense?

Thanks,
Cheers.
NSEU

P.S. The arrows in the diagram show non-automatic switching of sense
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