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ANSMEDIA:
Maxbe continental hotel opens for business in the beautiful city of Awka.

ANSMEDIA:
Maxbe continental hotel opens for business in the beautiful city of Awka.

BigSarah:
This looks surprisingly better than enugu international airport...
Or maybe its because its a video..

ANSMEDIA:
Anambra international airport getting set for commissioning

Cjrane2:
That's why there have been appeals to Nigerians and Igbos to enroll in aviation schools and not only reading engineering in local universities.

Hopefully the aviation school by Air Peace will attract more people instead of going to Ethiopia to learn civil aviation .

If i were younger, i would have enrolled in a school to become a certified civil aviation pilot . The pay us much better and tge chances of employment are much higher

OreMI22:
Nwokem,

Since you have data to argue pointlessly, why don't you just use it to research answers to your question?

Auto landing, a function of autopilot is a feature in ALL modern planes to utilize ILS Categories 2 or 3 in an airport to safely land the plane in the touchdown zone of the runway without any input from the pilot. The visual orientation of the correct glide path by the pilot using the PAPI lights is what ILS CAT2 OR 3 will automatically orient the plane computers in the correct glide path to the touchdown zone without any input from the pilot in auto landing procedures.

In fact most pilots love to use the auto landing feature of the ILS CAT 2 OR CAT 3 airports in good, daylight weather because it helps them to test the calibration of the system and be sure it guides the plane computers to the safe touchdown zone of the runway. Incase they have to use auto landing feature of their plane in that airport in very bad weather with poor visibility.

Just google how ILS CATEGORIES 2 and 3 work and what are PAPI lights and get the information yourself on how the ILS systems work for both visual landing by the pilot or auto landing by plane computers using the ILS guidance .


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeELh0kMSIA




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f546pl8J3Jw



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUjnWSzAirQ



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1wtpojtbJc


These videos will answer your questions in practical terms if you take the time to fully watch them. They deal with the various aspects of your question i.e. ILS systems, landing light, PAPI light for visual assistance to pilots to estimate their approach height, and the principle of auto-landing by airplanes.

The pilot in the first video did a good job explaining how ILS systems guide a pilot to the runway.

OreMI22:
Yes, there are CAT 2 runway lighting systems and CAT 2 ILS.

I believe the video was posted in this thread a while back in case you prefer a video demo than just researching it. Obiano was right when he said the CAT 2 runway lights had runway Center lights in addition to the edge lights. CAT 1 is just the runway edge lights like we have in Enugu.

The approach lights are part of the ILS system. They are designed to enable the pilot to decide whether to land the plane or not at a certain altitude (The Decision Height). The Cat II systems enable the pilot to make that decision at a much lower altitude than the CAT 1 system. Although Lagos and Abuja airports operate CAT 2 systems, there are CAT 3 systems operated by prime international airports in London, Dubai or New York. The truth is that CAT 3 has more lights installed, but pilots have said it really doesn't provide real advantages over CAT 2. The runway just looks more beautiful because even the touchdown zone has lights in the CAT 3 system.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghz8FaJYuZ8


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDD9aZ_jxZo