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Old September 27th 09, 03:42 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
BeechSundowner
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Default ILS approach to near minimums - Video

On Sep 26, 8:46*pm, a wrote:
On Sep 26, 11:10*am, " wrote:


I noticed when you broke out at 500 feet agl you aligned the axis of
the airplane with the runway then tended to drift a little left, and
coordinated turned yourself onto the center line again. Absolutely
nothing wrong with that, but my habit is a little different. I
continue to fly the localizer at whatever crab angle I need *to keep
the needle centered and when much lower *drop the windward wing, kick
the airplane into alignment *and transition to a cross wind landing.
It would be interesting for the thread to address the advantanges and
disadvantages of each method.


A,

While IMC, I do exactly what you say, fly the crab all the way down.
Problem and why you see me drift left when I break out was I was 1/2
dot off fthe localizer to the right, so in order to find the
centerline, it required a slight turn to the left when I broke out 512
MSL or 200 AGL.

You can see my "reintercept" of the centerline from 7:20 to to 7:30 by
watching the point of the cowling in relationship to the runway
centerline. During this 10 seconds, I was correcting the right of the
localizer problem.

Couple of thoughts, as I did not even realize until breaking out that
I had that much of a crab as I was so focused on maintaining the
localizer. . It took several adjustments of the header bug on descent
to find that sweet spot in tracking. When I broke out, needless to
say I was surprised at my crab angle (like, oh crap, where's the
runway!), and thus the sharp "response on the yoke" My subsequent
approaches were not that abrupt on the yoke as I was better prepared.

This was a quartering "downwind landing" 34L was closed so only 16L
was available.

It's fun to Monday QB my videos and I sincerely appreciate this kind
of feedback!