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ILS

American  
Aeronautics.
  1. instrument landing system.


ILS British  

abbreviation

  1. instrument landing system

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However, this button does not work at the airport without ILS but the pilot either did not know it or forgot about it.

From Economist • Nov. 23, 2012

Each vertical blue line represents the fraction of ILS between human, chimpanzee and gorilla estimated in a 1-Mbp region.

From Nature • Mar. 7, 2012

American start-ups like SpaceX -- brainchild of PayPal founder Elon Musk -- aim to poach business from Ariane and ILS using the Falcon rocket series, but are still in a test phase.

From Reuters • Oct. 18, 2011

As for that non-precision, so long as you're in the slot, so to speak, touching down from one of these procedures should use up no more runway than landing from an ILS.

From Salon • Aug. 3, 2011

This week, AT&T announced it's partnering with four companies that specialize in M2M application development: Axeda, ILS, Sierra Wireless and SensorLogic.

From Inc • Feb. 15, 2011