inner marker
noun1
Aeronautics, Aerospace, Aviation, Business, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences A type of marker beacon placed to indicate when an aircraft crosses the runway threshold of a Category II or Category III ILS or IGS approach, triggering a continuous visual and aural sequence of rapid-fire Morse code dots from the marker beacon receiver in the cockpit of an aircraft flying over the marker.
- Synonyms
- IM
- Hypernyms
- marker beacon
- Coordinate terms
- fan marker, middle marker, outer marker