For those that are interested...
The original design and patent on the Instrument Landing System was filed in 1937 and held by Reed Pigman...yes the very same fellow who did the dirty dive from low station inbound on a VOR approach to Ardmore Oklahoma years ago in a Lockheed Electra, not wearing his shoulder harness (not too bright)...the results are well known.
THE problems with "false" glidepaths have been well known for over sixty years.
One can only wonder...what is new?
Does not "anyone" read history?
Good grief...
Last edited by 411A; 17th Sep 2002 at 22:41.