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Old 11th May 2018 | 04:19
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Microwave Landing System (MLS)

Does anyone know of any place on earth that has an active MLS approach? If so, where and who uses them (meaning commercial, air transport ops, etc.)?

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Old 11th May 2018 | 04:25
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Originally Posted by aviationluver
Does anyone know of any place on earth that has an active MLS approach? If so, where and who uses them (meaning commercial, air transport ops, etc.)?

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Heathrow, according to this nine-year old article. Unless they've decommissioned it since.
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Old 11th May 2018 | 04:26
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Still up and running at LHR, in occasional use by BA, for no other reason than nostalgia as I can see 😄
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Old 11th May 2018 | 04:31
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Is Heathrow the only location in the entire world the MLS is used?
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Old 11th May 2018 | 04:41
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Still up and running at LHR, in occasional use by BA, for no other reason than nostalgia as I can see 😄
MLS was commercially killed stone dead years ago, with the advent of IRS/FMCS systems updated by GPS/DME/whatever, with WAAS/SBAS/GBAS enabling all the goodies of MLS (curved/offset/segmented approaches, steeper low noise etc) with nil on-airport infrastructure and no "special" aircraft equipment, given the usual avionics fit for most larger aircraft since late 1980s.
Tootle pip!!
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Old 11th May 2018 | 06:40
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Still up and running at LHR, in occasional use by BA, for no other reason than nostalgia as I can see 😄
AFAIK, it's only operational on the BA shorthaul Airbus fleet (don't know if it's on their latest Neos).
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Old 11th May 2018 | 07:55
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Thread from last year: PPRuNe: What Happened to the Microwave Landing System?
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Old 11th May 2018 | 08:06
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NASA

Hasn’t NASA used it for it’s shuttle?
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