CIVIL APPROACH WITH JPALS

A FedEx 727-200 aircraft recently made the first civil precision-instrument approach using a GPS-landing system developed for the military. The aircraft made 16 successful Category 1 instrument approaches, followed by six full-auto landings at Holloman AFB, N.M., using Raytheon's Joint Precision...

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