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Are their systems accurate enough to identify an aircraft being 15m off the centerline of the runway? Take the incident at SFO a few years ago where an aircraft
by fyfy18 7y ago
Are their systems accurate enough to identify an aircraft being 15m off the centerline of the runway? Take the incident at SFO a few years ago where an aircraft nearly landed on the taxiway - it was only detected by a pilot on the ground (on the taxi way) saying the approaching aircraft looks off course.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/07/11/sfo-near-miss-air-canada-flight-got-extremely-close-to-planes-on-taxiway/ https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/07/11/sfo-near-miss-air-can...
- rlpb 7y agoOn a normal (CAT I) ILS approach, the pilot will land manually, visually, from a height of 200 feet. You'd have to confuse the pilot as well as the ILS; otherwise the pilot will go around on seeing the deviation (if it's not correctable).
- sokoloff 7y ago15m laterally is still well within the obstacle protected zone and would put the nosewheel onto pavement on most ILS-served runways (and probably all common airline ILS runways). It would take a small sidestep at 200’ AGL to put the offside main gear onto pavement.
- t0mas88 7y agoNo, ATC radar systems are not accurate enough to show such a small offset and also don't update fast enough. You could probably write an algorithm to have a computer check it, but the controller in the tower will not notice because this is less than 1 pixel on their screen.