landing aid

As a landing aid then, the system was practically useless on many designs due to poor reliability.

It also provides a navigation and landing aid.

This made blown flaps practically useless as a landing aid on many aircraft.

Later systems kept the same basic function of the mirror landing aid, but upgraded components and functionality.

The installation of an angled flight deck and mirror landing aid, would have allowed Sydney to operate modern jet aircraft.

The mirror landing aid was a gyroscopically-controlled concave mirror on the port side of the flight deck.

Since it is a navigational aid, not a landing aid, it remains the crew's responsibility to keep track of the plane's altitude.

He ignored them, his attention divided between the lights of the approaching aircraft and the TV, which was tuned to the ship's pilot landing aid television.

At Ford it experimented with British innovations in aircraft carrier operations, including the mirror landing aid and the steam catapult.

Development was restarted in Germany in the 1930s as a short-range system deployed at airports as a blind landing aid.

The Mirror Landing Aid was invented by Nicholas Goodhart.

The carrier was fitted with a visual landing aid called a "Bedford Array", which provides glidepath information to the pilot through a helmet-mounted display.

As a landing aid the ASW 12 possesses a braking parachute, an unreliable system that lacks modulation.

An associated British invention, intended to provide more precise optical guidance to aircraft on final approaching the deck, was the Fresnel lens optical landing aid.

PLAT: Pilot Landing Aid Television.

A radio signal that triggers navigational beacons could be a landing aid system for an airstrip or helicopter pad that is intended to be low-profile.

Only last week aircraft had to divert to other airports because there is no landing aid for the lowest visibility when fog rolls in from the ocean, the usual direction.

Meanwhile, Majestic was undergoing major upgrades during construction to operate jet aircraft, including the installation of an angled flight deck, steam catapult, and a mirror landing aid.

TRACON gives the arrival a descent profile, ILS and other landing aid clearances.

Modifications included the installation of an 8.5-degree angled flight deck, a more powerful steam catapult, stronger arresting gear, reinforced hangar elevators, and a mirror landing aid.

The first OLS was the mirror landing aid, one of several British inventions made after the Second World War revolutionising the design of aircraft carriers.

Manually Operated Visual Landing Aid System (MOVLAS)

Installation of the Pilot Landing Aid Television (PLAT) system was completed on Coral Sea on 14 December 1961.

Ferguson had every modern navigational and landing aid, but although he could make a hands-off touchdown if he had to, he preferred to see terra firma before he put his wheels down on it.