Talk:Instrument landing system localizer

What Is It Exactly?

This article makes no attempt to say what on earth this thing is. It provides some nice links for people who already know what it is, and facts about it for people who want to know more about it, but leaves someone who has never heard of it none the wiser about what it is made of, what it looks like, how big it is, or what it does. FFS. TomViza 23:56, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Absolutely agree. Just read this and have no clue whatsoever except that its some kind of airplane guidance thingy that they use when approaching the runway or something like that. I guess I'll read up on the related articles or finally enroll in that ESL reading comprehension class at our local community college. 78.34.118.113 (talk) 23:43, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

I was struck by the same obvious omisson. Perhaps someone can fix that. - KitchM (talk) 04:44, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

It says what it is in the first sentence. It's a component of the Instrument Landing System. Don't know what that is? Click the link. When I read an article that is quite technical and out of my expertise, I expect to go through several levels of links before I understand the topic. MarshallKe (talk) 21:29, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

LLZ

I arrived here looking for a definition for LLZ. I'm going to update the article to show the abbreviation.Richard 09:26, 25 Oct 2011 (BST)

Cockpit point of view

This article is well written in many ways, but it lacks how it is used in cockpit. Why ? (fog for instance) How to "catch it" ? Manual vs AP. Where is the localizer among the instuments ? etc. Many people confuse localizer and glideslope with the fligth director. The localizer shallbe "captured" prior tothe glideslope.A good angle is 20 degrees. Higher -and you may "run it over" and must try from the opposite direction- or if close, make a turn around. Lower and it will take too long time before You'llget it. Then You are probablly a bit too close to the runway. On larger planes (with gyro-instrumentation) You use the navigation radio to tune in the ILS (localizer & glideslope) -it works even backwards (but left get right etc),landing from opposite direction from the ILS. - on an runway without dual ILS frequencies. UNDER the gyro-horizon ,when decending around 10 minutes before landing the localizer "comes up" as a green diamond in class-cockpits usually as an orange stroke in "clock-cockpits). Just adjust your heading towards the stroke and try to get it to the center of the scale. If using APjust press the "APP" ("ILS" in some cases) button (but be careful with the hight,and airpressure) I'm too tired to write it myself now. Boeing720 (talk) 01:36, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

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The part about "1000 feet" at far end of runway makes no sense. What does that mean? 1000 before the end? After?

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Principle of operation

I would like to know how localizers work, but this section does not explain it at all. Instead it talks about irrelevant things like locators and the lack of ILS in some parts of the world. The diagram next to it seems to suggest that two modulation frequencies (90 and 150 Hz) are employed in some way, but this is not described in the article. Also, the paragraph asserts that a localizer works as a "cooperation" between the ILS system and the aircraft, which seems to imply that information is sent in both directions. Is that right? I thought the aircraft simply receives the ILS signals. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 51.6.73.6 (talk) 17:14, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

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