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ILS approaches are divided into facility performance categories. Which of the following statements relates to facility performance category II?
  • A
    Guidance is provided from the coverage limit to the point at which the localiser course line intersects the ILS glide path at a height of 60 m (200 ft) or less above the horizontal plane containing the threshold.
  • B
    It proves guidance from the coverage limit to the point at which the localiser course line intersects the ILS glide path at a height of 30 m (100 ft) or less above the threshold.
  • C
    It is an ILS which, with the aid of ancillary equipment when necessary, provides guidance from the coverage limit down to and along the runway.
  • D

    Guidance is provided from the coverage limit to the point at which the localiser course line intersects the ILS glide path at a height of 15 m (50ft) or less above the horizontal plane containing the threshold.

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Learning Objective 062.02.05.04.01: Explain that ILS approaches are divided into facility performance categories defined in ICAO Annex 10.


ICAO annex 10 sets out facility performance categories in order to set out the requirements for CAT I, II and III approaches. There are therefore facility performance category I, II and III instrument landing systems.

The differences between the three facility performance categories are numerous, everything from the accuracy down to the monitoring is defined for all three facility performance categories, with many more variables in between. In the end, that means that they can provide increasingly good guidance to aircraft as the category goes up, and the associated minima get lower. As you can see in the annex above, taken directly from ICAO annex 10, facility performance category I can give guidance down to a height of 100 ft or less, category II down to 50 ft or less and category III down to the runway (with the aid of ancillary equipment).

Facility Performance CategoryMinimum height of guidance
Facility Performance Category i100 ft or less
Facility Performance Category ii50 ft or less
Facility Performance Category iiiDown to and along the surface of the runway

It is important to note that the facility performance categories do not use the same altitudes at the ILS categories we use in normal operations. A facility performance category I ILS system is capable of providing information for a CAT I ILS as it gives useful information down to 100ft, which is lower than the lowest minimums of a CAT I ILS at 200ft. This gives some safety margin in the system, which is always useful at such extremely low heights.

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