Examples of instrument landing in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Until 2015, Metro had been allowing two planes to land simultaneously in poor visibility, both using their runway's instrument landing systems. — Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 22 Dec. 2020 Pilots landing at night must do instrument landings when a parallel runway is closed. — Matthias Gafni, SFChronicle.com, 8 Aug. 2019 The flight crew failed to engage the plane’s instrument landing system, which would have provided a warning that they were not lined up with the correct runway. — Matthias Gafni, SFChronicle.com, 8 Aug. 2019 The countries also disagree on an instrument landing system used by a Singapore civilian airport since January that allows landings in low visibility. — Annabelle Liang, The Seattle Times, 8 Jan. 2019 The Air Canada crew, cleared for a visual approach around midnight, failed to use the standard instrument landing system U.S. carriers typically require their pilots to rely on as a backup for precision approaches in similar circumstances. — Andrew Tangel, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2018

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