Most of us here have seen the NavCanada RJ doing the ILS testing here at YYC. Here is some footage taken for Daily Planet from inside the RJ as it does its thing at YOW:
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We spent an amazing day with NavCanada testing the Instrument Landing System (ILS) at Ottawa MacDonald-Cartier Airport (YOW). We rode in their Bombardier RJ as the highly-skilled pilots skimmed the runway at 375 km/h (200 knots) and just 15 m (50 ft) above the ground. In this run, we fly the centreline of YOW runway 32. At the end, we execute a climbing right turn, putting on a great show for the drivers on Riverside Drive. NavCanada does this testing at least once a year on every ILS-equipped runway in Canada. because the ILS has to be perfect.
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