(July 12, 2017 at 12:25 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Isn't ILS still turned on for VFR landings in commercial aircraft?
The ILS is always on. Unless it isn't i.e. unless its broken or down for maintenance. At a high volume airport like SFO, I would doubt they close the runway in VFR conditions just because the localizer is out of service. I don't know if the localizer was OOS in this case nor if any of the runway lights or PAPI were not working. But I don't think they'd stop using the runway if it were.
Flying out of Teterboro once, none of the runway or taxiway lights were working. Still had to wait for three business jets to land before we could take off. Having no lights didn't slow down their operations one bit.
