Not sure what you mean. The glide slope goes on for
ever, it doesn't stop at the outer marker. Given the
right runway and a powerful enough receiver, you could
pick it up on Pluto. (Voyager transmits on 2W or so).

So there you are at 15000' in APP mode and you
pick up a GS, whereupon the autopilot will start a
coupled approach and start you on down the glideslope.
My understanding is that the only difference between
APP and NAV modes is whether the GS coupling
is enabled. If the GS and dest waypoint happen to be in much
the same direction you could get a long way down...

Of course you'd spot this happening and recover (right?)
but still it would be an interesting moment.

John

"Ron Rosenfeld" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 12:15:06 -0700, "John Harper"
wrote:

That could get entertaining if you pick up a glide slope while
you're at altitude....

How would that happen?


Ron (EPM) (N5843Q, Mooney M20E) (CP, ASEL, ASES, IA)