Stuart Buchanan wrote > > syd adams wrote: > >That might be best . I know very little about what information a real > scope displays , and intercepting a radial is the pilots job , so I dont > know if > >I can bring myself to add that line ;). > > I was at a fly-in to an RAF base last week, which included a tour of their > tower. Interestingly, they still do radar-guidance (I forget the official > term) where the controller provides instructions to the pilot to bring > them to the center-line and appropriate glideslope to the runway - "Left > two degrees, slightly high...", and the guides them all the way down to > decision height. > > For this they had two radar displays, one showing the horizontal track and > one showing the vertical, with an external center-line and glideslope > marked on the display. > > I got the chance to try this out on their Tornado simulator, and it worked > pretty well. I even got a nice print-out of my track afterwards :) >
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