Satellite Landing Systems Australia

[NOSIGN]

Gday,

Anyone know anything about SLS in Australia?

regards,
NOSIGN

[Capt EFIS]

No, however I heard that the military have been testing out another new system - TLS (Transponder Landing System).

Not sure on the details

[*Lancer*]

Would that be something like an A/P coupled GCA?

[OzExpat]

No Lancer, just a cheap, simple, common, garden-variety ILS ... for places that aren't all that busy.

[Seaeagle109]

Norfolk Island, has a system installed by Honeywell called a SCAT 1; it requires a special reciever to be fitted to the a/c; Flightwest were going to fit and use the system before they went broke; the system uses a ground based GPS( ie differential) and the display to the pilot utilises the ILS display; you simply fly it as an ILS to Cat 1 minima, hence S(pecial) CAT(egory) 1.

The military TLS is a self contained, transportable system; it uses the a/c transponder to work out the bearing and distance from the runway( it uses 2 arrays of 3 aerials/ it works out the bearing/elevation using the time difference of signal reception to figure out the angle); the TLS then transmits the ILS frequency signals to the a/c with the 90/150 modulations of the L/R of LLZ or FU/FD of the GP incorporated in the signal to indicate where the a/c is reference to centreline and glidepath; the display to the pilot is via the ILS display( the a/c must have the ILS tuned to the freq.) it's just like flying an ILS.

[Pass-A-Frozo]

The US tested the Transponder Landing system. It had FAA certification, but lost it when they had a problem with two aircraft having the same squawk code

[hmm...]

Why don't they get rid of all those old NDB's?

Oh money........... sorry!

[Rayford Steele]

The SLS at Norfolk Island has never landed a single aircraft and is highly probable that it will never land a single aircraft.... ever.

I think the Norfolk Island Government will happly sell the Ground Station equipment if you make even half an offer!