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A300Capt · January 24th, 2003, 15:03

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I also made the assumption that since the airport was uncontrolled that the runway was not an ILS runway. Of course it could also be that I don't really understand what an ILS runway is.

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Being uncontrolled simply means there was no control tower operating at that time and really has nothing to do with instrument approach navaids available that airport. There are many more uncontrolled airports than controlled with ILS capability and pilot controlled lighting.

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Am I correct in assuming that if they were in a "fly by wire" airplane then their problems would have been even greater? Is there a backup to the backup to the backup for that system?

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I've never flown a fully FBW aircraft so I'll leave that to someone who has. They do have multiple backups and probably even have some sort of hyd/elec RAT that drops down.

January 24th, 2003, 15:03	#11
A300Capt Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Louisville, Kentucky Posts: 708	Re: Not suppose to happen.... [ QUOTE ] I also made the assumption that since the airport was uncontrolled that the runway was not an ILS runway. Of course it could also be that I don't really understand what an ILS runway is. [/ QUOTE ] Being uncontrolled simply means there was no control tower operating at that time and really has nothing to do with instrument approach navaids available that airport. There are many more uncontrolled airports than controlled with ILS capability and pilot controlled lighting. [ QUOTE ] Am I correct in assuming that if they were in a "fly by wire" airplane then their problems would have been even greater? Is there a backup to the backup to the backup for that system? [/ QUOTE ] I've never flown a fully FBW aircraft so I'll leave that to someone who has. They do have multiple backups and probably even have some sort of hyd/elec RAT that drops down.