INSTRUMENT RUNWAY - A runway equipped with electronic and visual air navigation aids and for which a straight in (precision or nonprecision) approach procedure has been approved or is planned.
(a) 300 feet for precision instrument runways.
(b) 250 feet for other runways serving small airplanes with approach speeds of 50 knots, or more.
(c) 120 feet for other runways serving small airplanes with approach speeds of less than 50 knots.
Part of the ILS that projects a radio beam upward at an angle of approximately 3° from the approach end of an instrument runway.
Runway extensions project the extended runway centerline for, typically, the primary hard-surface or instrument runway at an airport.
Back course (BC). The reciprocal of the localizer course for an ILS. When flying a back-course approach, an aircraft approaches the instrument runway from the end at which the localizer antennas are installed.
At night use well lighted instrument runways and fly the glide slope.
Circling approaches are NOT good single pilot operations in right turns at night.
Confirm fuel and service availability well before it becomes important.
 See also: Aircraft, Clearance, Flight plan, Pattern, Flight
  
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