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A localizer is a radio navigation aid used for lateral guidance by aircraft approaching an airport to land.

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How to calculate the vertical profile for a LOC only approach?

The approach shows that the glideslope (if it were working) is a three degree descent angle. You can calculate your own visual descent point (VDP), since one isn't provided for you, by taking the he …
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Why do some back course operations use normal sensing?

The note is also there to make it more obvious that the sensing will be backwards from what you might expect when flying outbound on a "normal" localizer. … We are taught from the beginning of our instrument training how to handle flying a localizer outbound, and now we have to do it the opposite way. …
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