ILS for runway 28 in CHYH (Hay River) is not aligned with the runway. If you follow the localizer, it brings you down parallel to the runway, but about 20-30 feet off the pavement to the left.
There seems to be a few problems with this airport. I assume you mean RWY 23, since there is no 28 there, and the world map shows only a VOR DME 113.9 (not a localizer/dme) aligned with RWY 23 (no ILS glideslope). The VOR approach to 23 appears to line up pretty well with the runway heading (229). If you’re talking about the localizer on the map (110.3) that’s shown next to one of the other runways, it’s definitely offset from any of the runways, and I can’t find an approach chart that shows an offset localizer at that airport (just a quick search, so might have missed one).
I didn’t try the other runways to see if they line up correctly.
Regards
My mistake! It’s runway 32, not 28. That’s what I get for writing the note from memory. I did follow the localizer to about 500’ AGL, realized it was not aligned, and broke off to line up with the runway, so I know the mis-alignment is real. It’s easiest to visualize the problem in LittleNavMap. Upon further investigation, the ILS mis-alignment could be a Navigraph problem. LNM defaults to the Navigraph database for ILS, and I didn’t change the default. FS2020, however, would not have been using the Navigraph database, and the aircraft was definitely coming down parallel to the runway. This does not appear to be a frequently-visited airport. I only learned of it through the TV program “Ice Pilots”.
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