Results of MLS procedural interception flight trials performed at Manchester Airport

In July, 1988, flight trials have been performed on the newly installed MLS equipment at Manchester Airport (UK), using one of the laboratory aircraft of NLR, a Fairchild Metro II with programmable avionics systems including a basic MLS receiver as an "Avionics Research Testbed". The aim of the tests was to prove that aircraft with basic IFR...