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Old 08-10-2020 | 10:12 AM
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From: FAA 'Flight Check'
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Originally Posted by dmeg13021
We get it, ground-based signal gets flight checked to tight tolerances. The aircraft flight directors give false captures of LOC or GS based on the approach geometry sometimes. There’s no reason an FMC can’t get updated to back up a ground-based ILS with an overlay GPS that eliminates false captures.

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What I'm getting dmeg - is that there is probably a lot of misinformation and misunderstanding of what false LOC signals truly are. No need to get defensive. I am giving logical insight to what some pilots re reporting as problems. Maybe it is even a terminology between our segments of aviation. But you can't really have FALSE CAPTURE OF THE LOC OR GS signal without a failure in the ground based system. As I put forth in an earlier post - maybe what you are calling false captures are really FMS/FGP set-up errors.

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