Melchior FRANZ writes: > I guess that everyone has wondered about the outer marker control > light already. It has been on since 2003/03/09. Didn't blink since > then. :-)
I saw my marker lights (on my KMA 24 audio panel) flash for the first time when I was flying down to NYC on Monday: we don't use OMI markers at all in Canada. I was overflying Albany at 7500 feet, and I saw first the O and then the M markers light up, one after the other (I also pushed the button to listen to the audio), just for fun. Canada got rid of markers a while ago and now uses an NDB instead of an outer marker as the FAF for ILS approaches: that has several advantages, including the ability to navigate directly to the IAF/FAF, the ability to see how close you are to intercepting the LOC (and whether you're being vectored too tight), and the ability to allow NDB approaches when the LOC goes U/S (as happened with the LOC/BC 25 approach in Ottawa last week: I wonder how the Boeing and Airbus drivers felt tuning into the ATIS and hearing "approach NDB 25"). All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
