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“It is an all-weather, precision landing system originally intended to replace
or supplement Instrument Landing Systems (ILS). MLS has a number of
operational advantages, including a wide selection of channels to avoid
interference with other nearby airports, excellent performance in all
weather, a small “footprint” at the airports and wide vertical and horizontal
“capture” angles that allowed approaches from wider areas around the
aircraft.
* Although some MLS system. became operational in the 1990s, the
widespread deployment initially envisioned by its designers never became a
reality. GPS-based systems, notably WAAS, allowed the expectation of the
same level of positioning detail with no equipment needed at the airport.‘Radar and Navigation
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approaches at US airports,
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frequencies and provides deviations from the landing runway centering
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new technologies standards for a third landing system, the GO!
Navigation Satelite System (GNSS) based primarily on Global postos®
system technology, exist. Multimode receivers enable to an aircraft "|
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