On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 11:12:52 -0600, "Steven Barnes"
wrote:

Not if you did 6 SAR approaches, I guess.

"B A R R Y" wrote in message
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Karl wrote:

Additionally, it's not just the approaches - you also need holding,
along
with intercepting and tracking.

I always thought that was funny...

If you successfully flew an approach, did you intercept and track? G

According tot he local DE if you do the approaches you are also
considered to have done the intercept and track. Why they listed the
durn things separate...who knows?

OTOH back in my training days (some where around the Pleistocene) I
was doing, timed (NO GYRO), climbing (and descending turns) to
intercept a radial both inbound and out bound at a given altitude..
It was basically flying along when the instructor would say, give me a
left climbing turn to intercept the 320 radial out of MBS at 5000 (in
bound or he might say give me a right turn to intercept the 320 radial
out of MBS outbound at 4500. He varied the direction, altitude and
heading and expected the radial intercept and reaching altitude to
happen at the same time. IOW I had to figure how long it'd take me
to make the turn AND what rate of climb I'd need based on that time to
reach the radial AND altitude at the "same time" and then do it.
Remember this is all partial panel, half standard rate turns. He
wanted to hear me say what I'd need for a ROC and then see it on the
VSI

We spent something like 2 to 2 1/2 hours doing this before doing
actual approaches that day. That was one real workout:-))
Of course, that was also the day he failed virtually everything that
could fail, so I was doing approaches (and holds) partial panel. We
even did a descending hold over GDW which is an NDB. Again the 180 at
the one end had to be timed to bring me out at the proper heading and
altitude.

After the hold and approach to GDW we came back and did the VOR-A into
3BS. Of course that was with only one radio plus partial panel.

This was just before taking the PTS and I think I was more proficient
at that point than I ever was after taking (and passing) the PTS.




I did...