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Old February 19th 07, 05:15 PM posted to rec.aviation.student,rec.aviation.ifr
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Default Organizational Skills Required During Instrument Flight

On Feb 19, 11:03 am, "Mortimer Schnerd, RN"
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com wrote:
dlevy wrote:
You can quickly load the approaches and
graphically see what atc is doing. Otherwise, during training, I found that
I was just blindly following vectors without really visualizing. After
doing the approaches for a while, you will start to anticipate atc. I now
fly practice approaches without the gps.


It took me a while to figure out that those seemingly arbitrary vectors were
actually just corresponding to downwind, base and final legs... just a lot wider
pattern. Eureka!

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Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com



Eureka is right! I have never thought of vectoring in those terms!
Thanks!