The "Moonless Night Letter" is an FAA legal interpretation allowing pilots to log "actual instrument flight conditions" when outside circumstances necessitate instrument use for aircraft control, even ...

The pilot of a small jet that crashed into a Murphy Canyon neighborhood in dense fog last month, killing all six people on board, was on an instrument approach to Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport ...

Air traffic controllers at Detroit Metro Airport say the airport's approach lighting system (ALS) is falling apart. The lights, mounted high above the ground and stretching up to hundreds of yards ...

It has only been five years, but Costa Rica’s Juan Santamaría International Airport in San Jose will finally be getting approach lights. Designed to eliminate detoured flights due to dense fog or low ...

When foul weather wipes out familiar landmarks, airline pilots have the I.L.S. (Instrument Landing System) glide path to lead them in a gradual descent to the runway. At many airports they also have G ...