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Old 16th Nov 2010, 06:43
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Regarding a Cat III ILS, I understand that, after a huge amount of money had been spent in the mid-90s to realign the northern road and move it further from the RW, they discovered that it was impossible to improve the ILS beyond Cat I due to the terrain in the approach domain. In particular, the effect of Lew Hill. The northern road move was supposed to have been one of the precursors to a Cat II or Cat III installation......

Of course the ILS on RW08 has alaways had a kink in the glideslope which rules it out for autocoupled approaches....
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