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[toomuchtodo]

ILS was not available on the SFO runway the Asiana aircraft crashed on ~2 weeks back:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiana_Airlines_Flight_214

[hedgie13 → toomuchtodo]

Yes, but the weather was clear. No need for ILS in such weather.

[toomuchtodo → hedgie13]

Unless of course you've never landed at SFO before in an aircraft you're barely type-rated on.

[mikeash → toomuchtodo]

Neither should matter. A visual landing at any airport is pretty much the same, and the basics don't change for different aircraft. There's nothing at all tricky about a visual approach into SFO.