"TripFarmer" wrote in message
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| I'm just starting to work on my Instrument Rating and yesterday when doing
an
| ILS approach I was keeping the localizer centered and my instructor told
me to
| look up about a mile out. We were maybe 200 yards off the centerline.
Next
| one we stayed on the centerline (visually) and the needle was 1/2
deflection.
|
| Any thoughts about what to do? It seemed like a practice ILS I did at
another
| airport didn't do this a couple of weeks ago. Could it be this one
facility
| (BHM)? Do I need an avionics shop to look at it?
|

Could be your radios. Or if you have a GPS tied to your CDI you might have
inadvertently selected "GPS" instead of "NAV" and so the CDI needle was
actually indicating your position to some GPS course instead of the
localizer. I am seeing this error a *lot* in training.