“The system, called Glide Path”
No it’s not!!!
It’s called ILS, Instrument Landing System.
Totally unnecessary in clear weather.
That's what I was thinking. I have never heard of "Glide Path".
However, I just looked up the airport info for SFO 29L. It has a 4-light PAPI, or at least it did if the plane didn't slide over it.
“No it’s not!!!
It’s called ILS, Instrument Landing System.
Totally unnecessary in clear weather.”
That’s not what the article said. “Glide Path is a computerized system based at an airport that calculates a plane’s path of descent and sends it to pilots in real time.”
The ILS is a different system from Glide Path. It is only a set of two radio transmitters and it doesn’t interact with the plane. Besides, if the ILS was off then they wouldn’t be able to make evening and night landings after dark at that airport.
Some stupid, brain dead, libtard reporter thinks he / she has the smoking gun at the roots of a scandal so that the crash can be somebody else’s fault. Typical, find blame somewhere else. It was the pilot who was flying the airplane in clear weather. Maybe turbulence but that is what pilots are supposed to manage.
Another story I read said the 777 was safer because it was built to evacuate it in 90 seconds. Of course that is an FAA and industry requirement.