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My understanding has always been that even though an ILS frequency could be shared between two runways that the antenna could only transmit for one direction (localizer) at a time. Is this correct?
Going into ACK today, we were told to expect the ILS 24 approach and ATC vectored us south/southwest of the field. When west of the field, we were receiving I-RNE (ILS 6 localizer). The GNS530 auto-identified the station as I-RNE and I confirmed by monitoring the morse code.
When we reached a few miles to the southeast of the field, the GNS530 auto-identified the station as I-ACK (ILS 24 localizer) and I confirmed this by once again monitoring the morse code which was different than what I had previously heard. The signal was fine the entire way down the approach and we broke out just above minimums.
Has anyone ever experienced this before?
Going into ACK today, we were told to expect the ILS 24 approach and ATC vectored us south/southwest of the field. When west of the field, we were receiving I-RNE (ILS 6 localizer). The GNS530 auto-identified the station as I-RNE and I confirmed by monitoring the morse code.
When we reached a few miles to the southeast of the field, the GNS530 auto-identified the station as I-ACK (ILS 24 localizer) and I confirmed this by once again monitoring the morse code which was different than what I had previously heard. The signal was fine the entire way down the approach and we broke out just above minimums.
Has anyone ever experienced this before?