pgbnh wrote:

I thought about it some more and went back and reread the NTSB report. It
would appear that they were relying on the INFORMATION (CDI & DME) from the
GPS, but were not looking at the positional display. If they missed the fact
that they had passed the FAF as part of their aborted hold, AND they missed
the fact that the GPS had sequenced to the MAP, then they flew inbound on
the localizer course thinking they were still outside the FAF. The GPS would
be giving them distance information to MAP - they were seeing it as distance
to FAF. They then flew a pretty good approach - just displaced by 5-6 miles.
They also were pretty obviously navigating by the GPS and not using the
primary NAV - or they were at least depending on GPS for DME and not using
an independent DME. I am not familiar with the King GPS - the Garmin 530 has
a big identifier up on top which shows the waypoint being flown to.

The really scary thing is if two pilots with these qualifications can make
such a mistake, what hope is there for me?

Don't beat yourself up.

Their operation that day was very incompetent.