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"Peter R."
Yesterday, while wrapping up my complex, high performance instruction in a Bonanza V35, I received my first speed restriction from ATC during the approach back into the class C airport. "Bonanza XX, do not exceed 150, number two following a Dash 8, cleared ILS 28 approach." Congrats! My one and only speed restriction (at HPN) went like this "Maule, how slow can you go?", "80 knots", "...reduce speed to 80 knots, your number 2 behind blah blah". What a mess. I did it but it didn't matter... got a missed approach on short final. The controller appeared to be handling, or perhaps coordinating a lot of traffic with other controllers. In any case, he was using speed changes and restrictions to manage it instead of vectors. Problem was that my groundspeed varied about 30 knots throughout the approach. I'm sure that everyones elses did too. Embedded, low energy cells seem to alternately cause headwinds and tailwinds. No way that airspeed management would work on such a day. The 'Bo sounds nice. Hope to get the chance one day. |
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Maule Driver wrote:
My one and only speed restriction (at HPN) went like this "Maule, how slow can you go?", "80 knots" Years ago, I was flying a practice ILS 32 in VMC at CYOW in our Maule: http://www.pittspecials.com/images/maule.jpg and I was asked by ATC for "minimum speed" after glideslope intercept. It was a neat exercise to keep the needles centered under the hood during the airspeed reduction to 50 mph ias. I was grinning away because a cold front had passed, and the wind out of the northwest gave me a nice headwind, so my groundspeed (knots) was in the high teens, which is probably not something ATC sees every day on the ILS ... but they did ask for "minimum speed", didn't they? :-) -- ATP http://www.pittspecials.com/images/oz_down.jpg |
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"Andrew Boyd"
Years ago, I was flying a practice ILS 32 in VMC at CYOW in our Maule: http://www.pittspecials.com/images/maule.jpg That's the nicest pic of an (older) Maule that I've ever seen. Nice lines on a nice ship! Looks like you've moved on to a Pitts... and I was asked by ATC for "minimum speed" after glideslope intercept. It was a neat exercise to keep the needles centered under the hood during the airspeed reduction to 50 mph ias. I was grinning away because a cold front had passed, and the wind out of the northwest gave me a nice headwind, so my groundspeed (knots) was in the high teens, which is probably not something ATC sees every day on the ILS ... but they did ask for "minimum speed", didn't they? :-) Yep, they did. The ironic thing is that with the negative or reflex flaps on my Maule, the easiest way to fly an ILS is to speed up. I don't know if your Maule had a negative setting but my normal ILS procedure is to fly cruise or slow cruise until GS intercept, then select negative flaps. Depending on the RPMs, I get a 600ft/min descent with a touch of up trim at 115 to 125 knots. Fits into traffic real well. The 80knots would have been a good exercise except that I was almost airsick from the turbulence. Man, did I want to be on the ground. |
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