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Instrument Landing System (ILS) Glide Path (GA098)

DGIF baseline 2026-1, the latest. Earlier baselines: timemap.

RDF: ga098.ttl

Name
InstLandingSysGlidePath
Kind
FeatureType
Definition
A component of an Instrument Landing System (ILS) consisting of an Ultra High Frequency (UHF) transmitter radiating signals and providing a straight-line descent path in the vertical plane containing the centre line of the runway served by the ILS, and thereby furnishing descent information down to the surface of the runway.
Description
The descent information is that locus of points in the vertical plane containing the runway centre line at which the receiver indicator deflection is zero.
Accepted
2013-10-18
Geometry
point, multipoint, curve, multicurve, surface, multisurface, solid, multisolid
Subtype of
GA033 Aeronautical Radio Navigation Installation
Attributes
RWOI terms naming it

Source: DGIF 2026-1 QEA model, DGIWG. Standard: DGIWG 206-3. Licence: CC BY 4.0, © DGIWG.