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Intercepting the ILS
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"In the specifics cited for Stockton there is no issue of legality."
We're agreed then. I had attempted to emphasize in my long series of messages to you that *I* was talking about Stockton, whatever might have been in the CFI's mind. Ed |
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Intercepting the ILS
Doug wrote:
What did your CFI tell you to do? Decline ATC's instruction? *** Actually, he didn't tell me to do anything. He mentioned it after I had already started down the glideslope. At that point, I was pretty busy, so I just said "Let's talk about it on the ground". Then on the ground, it slipped through the slats. - Jerry Kaidor ( ) |
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Gene Whitt wrote: Jerry, It's been a few years since I flew down to San Jose to watch your first solo. This thread of some 46 responses made my late arrival all the more interesting. *** Greetings Gene! I still have the photos you took up on my refrigerator! There is an interesting side light to the SCK 29 ILS that I learned before I had my instrument rating which was not required for my CFI back then. I was flying as safety pilot in VFR as a rated pilot was shooting the ILS to 29 when somewhere about 600' the localizer needel went crazy and all the way to the right side even though the runway was directly ahead. This was some 30 years ago. Interesting as to why this might be and happen and I will tell you why but make your best guess now. It could be that equipment was not as sensitive as it is today *** Or it could be that it was more sensitive. I have two NAV receivers: a KX170B and a GNS430. The 170B is definitely more sensitive. but suggest those of you who want to see what happens I suggest that you set the localizer to 110.1 instead of 109.1 and fly the procedure and see how the localizer works, if at all. Under the right conditions it should give the same response as I have described. 110.1 happens to the the Localizer frequency at one of the two runways (21RL) at Travis AFB.nearly 30 miles away but in line with Stockton's 29. *** The localizer signal is AFAIK produced by two transmitters, both amplitude modulated. One has a 90Hz tone, the other one has a 150Hz tone. It looks like a sort of positional diversity took place where one of the signals had an obstruction way out there in the Valley somewhere. When I did my Private X-country, I tuned in the wrong VOR and merrily navigated on it for about 10 miles. These days, I try to be very disciplined about always ID-ing navaids before using them. - Jerry Kaidor ( ) |
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